Census Round II from February 9 to 28

Round II of Census 2011 will begin on February 9 in Mumbai. As many as 13,000 BMC officials and 12,000 state government and other officials will be deployed for the counting.

The questions will include information on personal details,including marital status,mother tongue,place of birth,work,education,caste and migration. Residents will be asked about the state that they belong, said Manisha Mhaiskar,Additional Municipal Commissioner.

We are trying to entrust the same blocks and areas to the enumerators of the previous phase. Around 60-70 per cent of the staff have already reported for duty, said Mhaiskar.

We have been directed to ensure that exams and Census do not coincide and the education department will make certain of the same, said Mhaiskar. Teachers on Census duty may extend their classes in March if the need arises. While the first phase included house listing and data collection for the National Population Register,the second phase will involve head count,including a count of the homeless.

As many as 27,483 house blocks covered in the first phase will be revisited in phase two where details of every individual staying in a house will be collected.

Those who had been left out of the enumeration process in the first phase will be included in the second phase, said Mhaiskar. Under the second phase the wards have been regrouped and 600-800 people are being covered in one block. In order to count the homeless,ward officials will carry out counting operations at night after identifying areas where people usually sleep and stay on roads and footpaths, said an official.

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