Bengaluru, Feb 24: Census authorities in Karnataka have requested deputy commissioners in the state’s districts to hold outreach and awareness campaigns about the National Population Register (NPR), as they fear misgivings about the exercise could hurt the forthcoming enumeration of population.
The house-listing phase of the Census and updating of NPR will be rolled out simultaneously by mid-April in the BJP-ruled state.
About 1,50,000 enumerators will handle the massive exercise.
Officials believe widespread awareness will help address concerns about the NPR data-gathering process and make people cooperate with enumerators when they visit houses for both NPR and census work.
“Sensing the kind of questions that enumerators may face when they do house visits, in all video conferences with deputy commissioners of districts, we have requested to establish contact with local representatives,” SB Vijay Kumar, director of Census Operations in Karnataka told news agency. “We have asked them to organise outreach programmes to ensure that people’s doubts are resolved before the information gathering work begins,” he added.
Census operations are handled by the Union home ministry. Several district officials are said to have raised concerns about the possibility of people refusing to share information when the work on the census and NPR begins in two months. This would affect the quality of the census work, making the exercise incomplete.
news channel earlier reported that people in parts of Karnataka had declined to share personal information with officials visiting households in connection with government programmes, suspecting them of gathering data for the yet-to-be unveiled National Register of Citizens, following enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) recently.
Kumar said district authorities will train and sensitise enumerators to tread carefully while gathering information. Enumerators will be told not to demand information but seek it gently.
“We will tell enumerators to proactively engage with people. For instance, if an old man in a village does not know his exact date or place of birth, the enumerator may engage in a conversation with the person that may elicit some anecdotes and roughly establish the year and the place of birth,” the census director said.
As of now, the NPR questionnaire has 21queries, but officials say it has not yet been finalised.
With most of the census and NPR data gathering and storage happening digitally this time, the challenge before census officials is to convince people that the data would remain safe.
“Individual data is sealed and all that we can see is collective data. The information is consolidated and tailor-made. We are telling district officials to create awareness about data safety as well,” Kumar said.
The comment posted from the Facebook account of Shankar Prasad read:?“Sattavarella Christaralla, Namagenu Bidi” (All those who died are Christians, why should we bother?).
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now innocent children are also not spared by hindutva
These kids are like clan flowers not seen the world. Very innocent.
How a person can have hatred OR enmity with such innocent kids.
This guy does not represent all Hindus, this is his own corrupt ideology. However his fellow Hindus have responsibility to correct him, to change him by hook OR Crook. One guy spoils the name of entire community is not acceptable in the civil society.
We are with the saddened parents and friends of these kids.
Uneducated goons and their leaders.....expected......when this guy dies please notify in media so the whole world can comment....Sattadu ondu naai alla ....municipality garbagige haaki....
shame on him no matter what he is or which religion he belongs to, he is not worthy of being human.. if he has no mercy for humanity.. put those aside, we have more people from different community who prayed for all those blessed souls.. today i attended juma in one of masjid.. and there was dua after prayer including these children's n all those who passed away in such tragedy. #beahumanfirst #humanityismypriority
RSS and Bajrangi has become more dangerous for human. They started to think like animals.
After worshiping stone for many years their heart has became stones permanently.
WHAT one can expect from this inhumans, cruel communal minds,even animals have mercy to each others and they express it some forms, but these so called chad.....is are now proved to be worse than that.. may the almighty creator protect the people of our nation from such ANTI HUMANS..
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