Our country is slowly moving forward and more are going digital and now the census in 2021 will be through a mobile app.
A mobile app will be used in the next census of India will be carried out in 2021, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today. "A mobile app will be used in Census 2021. It will be a transformation from paper census to digital census," Mr Shah said at an event in Delhi.
India's last census was carried out in 2011 when the country's population stood at 121 crores.
In March this year, the government had announced that the next census will be done with March 1, 2021, as the reference date.
In a notification, the ministry said the decision has been taken by the central government under the powers conferred by section 3 of the Census Act, 1948 (37 of 1948).
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