Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 12: The Government of India is conducting upcoming Census as the first-ever Paperless Census with digital means since its inception in India, which shall be backed by innovation & technology.
This was stated by Amit Sharma, Chief Principal Census Officer (CPCO) / Director Census Operations (DCO) & Director Citizen Registration (DCR) for the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
Sharma was attending Annual Sabha of the Gaddi Community, which was held in Udhampur today.
Addressing to the gathering, Sharma shared special and unique features of upcoming Census 2027 in both the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh wherein he invited all the public to participate with total zeal and enthusiasm, being one the biggest event of Indian democracy which is going to happen after a gap of more than 15 years after 2011.
He gave a patient hearing to various speakers of Gaddi community who expressed varied concerns, primarily mentioning about under-enumeration of Gaddi-Sippi community and reflection of lower population data figures in all the previous versions of Censuses, which resulted in provisioning of lesser benefits to them in various Government schemes and policies in comparison to other ST communities.
Sharma assured the huge gathering of the Gaddi community that upcoming Census 2027 shall be conducted into a completely digital format which shall be foolproof and temper proof to ensure provisioning of exact data sets and this time, a special facility of self-enumeration shall be extended to the citizens of the UT in which they can fill their accurate population data in the portal “se.census.gov.in” themselves, both in the phases of Houselisting and Housing Operations (HLO) and second phase of Population Enumeration (PE) of Census 2027, which shall be counter-checked by visiting Enumerators during the house-to-house visits later, before final submission.
During the programme, Amit Sharma also honoured top achievers of the Gaddi/Sippi community including popular singing sensation of J&K Bishen Dass who belongs to Latti area of Udhampur, top-performing doctors, sportspersons, students, who have created name and fame of Gaddi community in the recent past.
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