Censex 2011 Report

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PROVISIONAL POPLUATION TOTALS 1

OVERVIEW OF CENSUS 2011

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The Gita, Ch10:32

Of creations, I am the beginning, the middle and the end;Of knowledge I am knowledge of the Supreme Self;

Among speakers, I am words that are unbiased and inpursuit of truth

- The Gita, 10:32


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1.1 INTRODUCTION

Census is a reecon of truth and facts as they exist in a country about its people, their diversity

of habitaon, religion, culture, language, educaon, health and socio-economic status. The

word Census is derived from the Lan word Censere meaning to assess or to rate. In the

present context populaon census in India is primarily an ocial enumeraon through a

direct visit to all the people who are physically present and residing regularly or temporarily in

the country at a given point of me.

Today, India stands at cross roads of history. Recent signicant advancements in countrys

economy have taken the country to the centre stage of world aenon. Much of this progress

is intrinsically linked to the development of human resources. While on one side, growth of

populaon has been a cause for concern, the youth, the educated and the employed are

being seen as demographic dividends; especially in mes when world populaon is ageing.

However with increasing disparies, the challenge for the decade to come would be to focus

on the millenium development goals (MDGs) and the secons of society that remain less

privileged in educaon, health and employment; failing which the dividend may well turn into

a demographic liability. Among the largest peace me operaons ever in the world, Census of

India, 2011 is thus uniquely placed to provide comprehensive evidence leading to appropriate

policies that focus on such important goals for the Indian society.


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ENUMERATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY, THE GOVERNOR OF MADHYA PRADESH


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Populaon is basic to producon and distribuon of material wealth. In order to plan for, and

implement, economic and social development, administrave acvity or scienc research,

it is necessary to have reliable and detailed data on size, distribuon and composion of

populaon. Populaon census is a primary source of these basic benchmark stascs, covering

not only the seled populaon but also homeless persons and nomadic groups. Data from

populaon censuses should allow presentaon and analysis in terms of stascs on persons

and households and for a wide variety of geographical units, ranging from the country as a

whole to individual small localies, city wards and villages.

1.2 HISTORY

The earliest references of Census in India can be traced back to the Mauryan period in

Kaulayas Arthashastra (321-296 BC) and later during the Mughal period in the wrings of

Abul Fazl (1595-96) in the Ain-e-Akbari. Census, in its present scienc form was conducted

non synchronously between 1865 and 1872 in dierent parts of the country. This eort

culminang in 1872 has been popularly labelled as the rst Census of India. However the rst

synchronous Census in India was carried out in 1881. An unbroken chain of censuses since then

gives the Indian Census a unique historical legacy unparalleled in the world. Census 2011 is

the eenth Census in this connuous series from 1872 and the seventh since Independence.

History of Census in India

Rig Veda 800-600 BC

Arthashastra 321-296 BC

Ain-e-Akbari 1595-96

First systemac census conductedall over India (non-synchronous)

1872 (1865-1872)

First Synchronous Censusconducted all over India 1881

Independent India 1951

Census of 2011 15th since 1872, 7th since Independence

ENUMERATION OF HONBLE CHIEF MINISTER OF MADHYA PRADESH


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The State of Madhya Pradesh came into existence on 1st November, 1956 by way of consolidaon

of three states of Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal; the Sironj region of Rajasthan

(sub-division in Vidisha District) and Mahakoshal area which was earlier included in Central

Province (CP & Berar). Aer reorganizaon of the state, rst census was conducted in the year

1961. Census 2011 is the sixth census of the state in this connuous series.

1.3 METHODOLOGY

The Census of India is conducted once in a decade, following an extended de facto canvasser

method. Under this approach, data is collected from every individual by vising the household

and canvassing the quesonnaire all over the country, over a period of three weeks. The count

is then updated to the reference date and me by conducng a Revisional Round. In the

Revisional Round, changes in the entries that arise on account of births, deaths and migraon

between the me of the enumerators visit and the reference date/me are noted down and

the record is updated.

In Census 2011, for Madhya Pradesh the rst phase of House lisng Operaons or Housing

Census was completed between 7th May to 22nd June 2010. The second phase of canvassing

quesonnaire for Populaon Enumeraon was conducted from 9th to 28th of February 2011.

Enumeraon of the houseless populaon was done on the night of 28th February. Revisional

Round was then conducted from 1st to 5th March 2011 and the count updated to the Reference

Moment of 00:00 hours of 1st March 2011.

1.4 ORGANISING THE CENSUS

In India, the populaon census is a Union subject (Arcle 246) and is listed at serial number 69 of

the seventh schedule of the constuon. The Census Act 1948 forms the legal basis for conduct

of census in independent India. Although the Census Act is an instrument of Central legislaon,

in the scheme of its execuon, state hierarchy is setup at all levels by State Governments for

the purpose of carrying out census. The Census Organisaon under the Union Home Ministry

has been funconing on permanent foong ever since 1961 and provides a vital connuity to

conceive, plan and implement the programme of census taking in country. The Organisaon

headed by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India has eld oces in thirty three

States and Union territories. These are permanent Directorates headed by the Directors of Census

Operaons, who are mainly responsible for the conduct of census in their respecve jurisdicon.

The states appoint State Co-ordinators for furthering co-ordinaon between the Directorate,

Government of India and the State Government. Deputy Commissioners under the guidance ofDivisional Commissioners funcon as Divisional Census Ocers at the Division level in Madhya

Pradesh. District Collectors as Principal Census Ocers are responsible for the census work

in their respecve districts. Municipal Commissioners are also Principal Census Ocers for

census work in municipal corporaon areas, although the overall responsibility for a district

rests with the Collector. They are assisted by District Census Ocers and City Census Ocers

respecvely. In addion, every Tahsildar in Tahsil and Chief Municipal Ocer in a municipal

body are designated as Charge Ocers for their jurisdiconal areas which are called Census

Charges. In addion to civilian areas, the second phase of Populaon Enumeraon was

conducted simultaneously in military and para-military areas along-with other sensive areas,

which are designated as Special Charges for Census Operaons. Each Special Charge is headedby a Special Charge Ocer for census operaons.

A Charge is further divided into Enumeraon Blocks which are areas with 125 to 150 families


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and populaon of up to 800. Each enumeraon block is alloed to an enumerator and a

supervisor looks aer a Supervisory Circle comprising of ve or six enumeraon blocks. Census

2011 was successfully conducted in the state with the help of about 1.5 lac enumerators and

supervisors.

HIERARCHY OF CENSUS FUNCTIONARIES IN INDIA

State Co-ordinators

Registrar General & CensusCommissioner, India

Directors of Census Operations,State/UT

District Magistrates/Collectors/Commissioners of MunicipalCorporations

Tahsildars/Mamlatdars

Enumerators/Supervisors

Prinicipal Census Officers

Charge Officers

1.5 ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

At the me of creaon, there were 43 districts in the state of Madhya Pradesh. But during the

inter census period of 1971-81, two more districts, Rajnandgaon out of Durg and Bhopal out

of Sehore were created. Thus, there were 45 districts in the state unl 1991 census. In May-

July98, as a result of bifurcaon and trifurcaon of some of the districts, 16 more districts

came into existence and thus the number of districts in the state rose to 61. On 1st November,

2000 (precisely in the mid-night of 31st October) the new state of Chhasgarh was carved out

of Madhya Pradesh with an area of 135,191 Sq. Km. and 16 districts.

Aer the Census of 2001, a new Division Shahdol comprising of four districts namely Shahdol,

Umaria, Anuppur and Dindori was carved out of Rewa and Jabalpur Divisions. The Hoshangabad

Division has been renamed as Narmadapuram Division and Betul district included in

Narmadapuram division from Bhopal division due to its geographical conguity. During the

decade ve new districts were created in the state namely; Ashoknagar from Guna district,

Anuppur from Shahdol district, Singrauli from Sidhi district, Burhanpur from Khargone district

and Alirajpur from Jhabua district. For Census 2011, the number of tahsils has increased to 342

from 259 in census 2001, an increase of 83 new tahsils during the decade. There have been a

few changes in the numbers of villages and towns during the decade. The comparave posion

of various administrave units in the state in 2001 and 2011 censuses is as given below:-


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Administrave unit 2001 2011

Divisions 9 10

Districts 45 50

Tahsils 259 342

Community Development Blocks 313 313

Number of Villages 55,393 54,903Number of Towns 394 476

Statutory town is a noed urban area.

Census Town is a village with minimum populaon of 5000; populaon density of at least 400

persons/sq km; and where at least 75% of male main workers are engaged in non-agricultural

acvies.

Outgrowth (OG) is an adjoining rural area to a statutory town with urban characteriscs.

Urban agglomeraon (UA) is a connuum of a town and its adjoining OG; or two or more

conguous towns together and any adjoining OGs of such towns; or a connuous spread of acity with one or more adjoining towns and their OGs. Minimum total populaon of UA should

be 20,000 with atleast one statutory town in it.

1.6 PLANNING FOR CENSUS 2011

The rst step towards taking of Census 2011 was preparaon of a complete and non-duplicated

list of all geographical enes in the state, which includes Districts, Tahsils, Towns and Villages.

Boundaries of all administrave units in the State were frozen as on 31st December 2009. This

exercise also involved obtaining the latest maps of districts, tahsils and towns.

A directory of administrave units with unique idencaon code for each unit was prepared

to ensure that every administrave unit is covered without omission or duplicaon. A unique

feature of coding system in Census 2011 is that it idenes Villages, Statutory Towns, Census

Towns and Forest Villages by separate series of codes.

ENUMERATION OF THE CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF MADHYA PRADESH


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Next important step as part of pre-census acvies was nalisaon of the Rural-Urban frame.

This exercise helped to prepare a complete up to date list of Statutory and Census Towns and

villages as urban and rural areas respecvely. The demarcaon of Out-Growths of Towns and

Urban Agglomeraons was also taken up as a part of this exercise.

Overall 374 Statutory Towns, 112 Census Towns, 37 Urban Agglomeraons and 86 Out Growths

were idenied in Census 2011 for the state of Madhya Pradesh.

CENSUS HOUSE NUMBER

To ensure complete coverage of all buildings and dwelling units, allotment of census house

numbers is an essenal pre-requisite. All over the state house numbering was done before the

House Lisng Operaons with the help of district administraon and local bodies. Darkening of

house numbering was again carried out before the Populaon Enumeraon exercise to ensure

complete and proper coverage.

PREPARATION OF CHARGE REGISTER AND AHL

Charge register is the fundamental document for carrying out the census operaons in a

charge by a Charge Ocer. It contains the details of villages and towns along with their

ward, the enumeraon blocks, names and phone numbers of the appointed enumerators

and supervisors. Housing enumeraon blocks were carved for the rst phase of house lisng

operaon keeping into account the jurisdiconal boundaries of various administrave units.

These were later revised into Populaon enumeraon blocks for the second and main phase

of populaon enumeraon based on the number of census houses and populaon esmates

collected in the rst phase. Abridged House List (AHL) was prepared for every enumeraon

block which enlisted all census houses and their numbers covered during the rst phase.

The AHL is the base document carried by an enumerator for populaon enumeraon duringthe second phase. Trainings for preparaon of charge registers and AHLs were organized for

all charge ocers and their assistants at the district level. Charge registers and AHLs were

thoroughly examined and corrected by the district ocials and the directorate sta.

RGI AND PS(HOME) IN CONFERENCE ON CENSUS 2011 : IMPORTANCE AND UTILITY FOR GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS


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CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

Census is an authenc source of polical and administrave geography. The Cartographic

Division of the Census Organisaon has evolved over the years and is now the largest

producer of themac maps in the country. It has come a long way from the tradional manual

cartographic methods used unl 1981 and now ulizes the latest GIS soware to produce digital

maps. Directorate has a fully equipped Map Division with latest GIS (Geographical Informaon

System) soware. A new eort in Census 2011 was the preparaon of digital map of Bhopal

city, upto the level of streets and buildings, using satellite imagery. This digital map was used

to carve out the enumeraon blocks in the city.

5 new districts, 83 new tahsils and several new villages and towns have come up since 2001.

Maps of all the administrave units were obtained and updated by incorporang the changes.

In addion to the above, the print outs of digital maps with boundaries of villages and towns

were provided to all the Charge Ocers to help them demarcate their enumeraon blocks and

supervisory circles. This eliminated any omissions or duplicaons of areas.

NOTIFICATIONS REGARDING CONDUCT OF CENSUS 2011

The Census of India is conducted under the provisions of the Census Act, 1948 and the Census

Rules, 1990. The statute requires the nocaon of various processes under provisions of

the Act and its Rules. Accordingly, various orders and statutory provisions have been duly

noed in the Gazee of India as well as in the Gazee of Madhya Pradesh aer following the

processes laid down. The various Nocaons are listed below:

Nocaon regarding the intenon of the Government of India to conduct a Census of the

populaon of India in 2011 was published in the Gazee of India on 20th February 2009 and in

the Gazee of Madhya Pradesh on 5th May 2009

In the same Nocaon, the Reference Date was also noed as 00.00 hours of the rst

day of March 2011 (except for the snow-bound areas of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh

and Uarakhand). In the snow bound areas of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and

Uarakhand the Reference Date was noed as 00.00 hours of the rst day of October 2010.

Nocaon regarding the conduct of House lisng and Housing Census from 1st April 2010

to 30th September 2010 in dierent States and Union Territories was published in the Gazee

of India on 25th February 2010.

Simultaneously, the Nocaon regarding the conduct of House lisng and Housing Census

in Madhya Pradesh from 7th May to 22nd June 2010 and the quesons to be canvassed was

published in the Gazee of Madhya Pradesh on 12th April 2010.

Nocaon regarding the conduct of Naonal Populaon Register (which was also done

along with the House Lisng Operaons) in Madhya Pradesh from 7th May to 22nd June 2010

was published in the Gazee of Madhya Pradesh on 12th April 2010.

The Nocaon regarding the quesons to be canvassed in the Populaon Enumeraon

was published in the Gazee of India on 31st August 2010 and in the Gazee of Madhya

Pradesh on 21st September 2010.


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NATIONAL POPULATION REGISTER

Canvassing for Naonal Populaon Register (NPR) was done alongwith the rst phase of Housing Census. NPR has legal

provisions under the Cizenship Act, 1955 and the Cizenship (Registraon of cizens and issue of Naonal Identy

Cards) Rules, 2003. NPR is based on Local Register of Usual Residents (LRUR) for every village and ward and is designed

to include every usual resident of the country with the help of een elds of informaon, along-with photographs,

bio-metric prints of ten ngers and iris scan of both eyes, to be captured as per UID standards. Based on this data,

the residents would be issued an MNIC (Mul-purpose Naonal Identy Card) with UID number (issued by the UID

authority). The MNIC would also contain 5-10 other ocial numbers like driving license, PAN card, NREG job cards,

raon cards etc. Approximately 1.60 crore schedules of NPR were canvassed during the rst phase of census in Madhya

Pradesh, which have been scanned in the directorate and are ready for the capture of photographs and biometrics to be

executed by the Department of Informaon Technology (DIT). In addion, permanent NPR centres are being planned for

all tahsils and municipal bodies of the state.

PRINTING

A feature that makes the Indian Census parcularly complex is that the schedules are canvassed

in 16 languages and the Instrucon Manuals are developed in 18 languages. Since Madhya

Pradesh is a Hindi speaking state, all the census material viz. Instrucon Manuals, Abridged

House list, Household Schedules for Naonal Populaon Register, Houselisng and Housing

Census Schedules, Household Schedules for Populaon Enumeraon and other census material

were printed in Hindi language.

All the schedules required for the state were printed centrally in high end presses having

facility of variable prinng and very high producon volumes. Other census materials were

printed in the Central Government Press in Faridabad and in the State Government Press of

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LOGISTICS

As regards the transportaon of material, a pioneering iniave of using the India Post for

handling the logiscs was undertaken. A special Logiscs Post arrangement was put in place

by India Post for Census 2011. In Madhya Pradesh the schedules used for canvassing of census

were printed in the high-end presses and dispatched directly to the charges. The other census

material were dispatched by the Directorate of Census Operaons through local arrangements.

The return dispatch of all the material was received back in the Directorate from the charges

through Indian Post.

1.7 CENSUS COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT

Successful census operaons require mely and eecve co-ordinaon at state, district,

village and ward levels. For this purpose various commiees and census working groups were

constuted.

STATE LEVEL

Liaisoning with various departments of the State Government was made possible with the

help of a commiee under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, constuted with Principal

Secretaries and Secretaries of dierent departments of the State Government as members.

Other invited members included the State Representave of UNICEF. Concomitant circulars for

census planning, budget, management, human resources, training and publicity were issued by

the departments of Home Aairs, Finance, General Administraon, Health, Educaon, Urban

development, Forest, Rural Development, PRIs and Social Welfare.

DISTRICT LEVEL

District Census group was constuted under the chairmanship of Collector for proper

management of census operaons at the district level. Heads of dierent departments of

district administraon including Chief Execuve Ocer of Zila Panchayat, District Planning

Ocer, District Educaon Ocer, Deputy Directors of dierent departments, Sub-Division

Ocers, Charge Ocers and Civil Society Organisaons (CSO) were members. Weekly meengs

were held to review the census work.

VILLAGE/WARD LEVEL

Census groups at Village and Ward level were constuted to provide the element of community

parcipaon, local wisdom and popular support to census operaons at the grass roots. Thegroup in a village was headed by the Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat with members including

members of the Village Development Commiee, Forest Commiee (in forest areas), Project

Commiee (wherever there are development projects), Self Help Groups, village level workers

like Patwari (local revenue ocial), Secretary of Village Panchayat, Asha, Anganwadi Workers

and Village Kotwar (local watchman). In wards of urban bodies the members included the

Ward Counsellors, Secretaries of Housing Sociees and Ward Ocials.

1.8 STATE LEVEL WORKSHOPS

Three state level workshops were organized with support of the State oce of UNICEF. The

workshops helped involve stakeholders like State Government Departments, Civil Society

Organisaons (CSOs), and Media for their acve parcipaon in Census 2011. First workshop

on Role of Civil Sociees in Census was held on 26th October,2010 which was aended by


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CSOs working in the state and helped evolve strategies for coverage of deprived secons like

people with disabilies, shelterless and nomadic populaon, primive tribes and people living

in forest areas or urban slums in Census 2011. Second workshop on Census 2011: Importance

and Ulity was held on 21st January, 2011 for government stakeholders which was presided

over by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India and Principal Secretary (Home)

to State Government and was aended by Principal Secretaries/ Secretaries of dierent

departments of the State Government and District Census Ocers. Third workshop on Role

of Media in Census was held on 4th February, 2011 to sensize the media on the importance

of census and to discuss the role in educang the people at large about census.

1.9 CAPACITY BUILDING OF CENSUS FUNCTIONARIES

Need for comprehensive capacity building of all funconaries, especially of enumerators and

supervisors can hardly be underscored for successful taking of census. A three er cascade of

training was devised for this purpose. At the top of the pyramid was a group of six Naonal

Trainers (NTs) in the state of Madhya Pradesh. This group was rigorously trained at the naonal

level for 5 days at a residenal training camp. The NTs trained 45 Master Trainer Facilitators

(MTFs) at the State level. Half of the NTs and MTFs were drawn from CSOs, which funconed

under the banner of Centre for Advanced Research and Development (CARD). The MTFs in

turn, trained 3,340 Master Trainers (MTs) at the District level. The MTs ulmately trained 1.5

lac enumerators and supervisors at the charge level.

Special eorts were made to improve the Instrucon Manual by including more illustraons and

examples. Training Guides were prepared to help the trainers impart quality training. Trainers at

each level naon, state and district levels were given intensive in-house training and provided

training aids, such as power point presentaons, e-learning modules, scripts of role plays and

pracce sheets. Special training modules were developed for explaining the issues related to

disability and gender. Another special training eort was made in development of training

modules for gender sensive districts. In addion, CSOs working in the eld of disability and

gender were associated with Census 2011 for training the trainers at all the levels.

It was felt that sensizaon of census funconaries towards various important social issues was

equally important in improving the quality of census enumeraon. For this purpose, two lms

on disability and migraon were specially produced by the Directorate of Census Operaons,

in collaboraon with CSOs - Arushi and Aid-et Acon respecvely. In addion an e-learning

module with role-plays in animaon was prepared by the Oce of RGI was extensively used

in all trainings. These lms and e-module were much appreciated during the training classes

at all levels. Live appeals and demonstraon for sensizaon towards enumeraon of thepeople with disabilies was eecvely done with the help of Arushi and other CSOs. Similarly

Arambh, another CSO, shared their experse for the enumeraon of shelterless in urban

areas. Arushi and Arambh covered all the division level trainings and various other district

level trainings.

It needs to be menoned that the enre training strategy was a collaborave eort between

the UN Agencies (UNFPA, UNICEF, and UNDP) on one hand and Census Organisaon on the

other. State oce of UNICEF played a key role for the state of Madhya Pradesh in this regard.


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GENDER SENSITIZATION

Gender disaggregated data is the basis for gender sensive policy formulaon and programme

planning. The need for gender stascs in formulang policies and programmes can hardly be

over-emphasized.

Conceptually, informaon collected in Census is gender neutral and compiled and tabulated for

both men and women separately. The Quesonnaire and Instrucon Manual for collecon of

informaon in the eld have been carefully designed to avoid any bias on the basis of gender.

The training of Census funconaries also focuses on this aspect of neutrality.

Gender sensivies like age at marriage, marital status, literacy and economic acvies in

unorganized and unpaid work are important characteriscs for coverage during census. In all

the 16 Gender crical districts of Madhya Pradesh, specially trained gender MTFs (GMTFs)

trained the MTs and census eld sta.

1.10 TRAINING PLAN FOR FIRST PHASE

STATE LEVEL TRAINING

State level training was conducted at

state headquarter by the Directorate on

27th March, 2010 in which Municipal

Commissioners & Principal Census

Ocers of Municipal Corporaons,

Divisional Census Ocers, District

Census Ocers, addional District

Census Ocers & City Census Ocers

parcipated. The training was imparted

by the expert faculty of trained NTs

DISTRICT LEVEL TRAINING

District level trainings were held at district headquarters between 5th to 10th April 2010 for

Charge Ocers and 12th to 17th April 2010 for Master Trainers (MTs). In this training of three

days duraon, two days were reserved for House Lisng Operaon and one day for Naonal

Populaon Register. Collector & Principal Census Ocers, District Census Ocers, addional

THE NIGHT

COUNTNight of February 28 and weehours of March 1st, 2011 is

the last leg of the census and

is reserved for the head count

of people living on streets or

the houseless like beggars,

rag pickers, construcon

workers and nomadic tribes.

All census ocials were in

the eld through out thenight teaming up with

enumerators for inclusion of

such people in Census 2011.


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District Census Ocers, City Census Ocers, Charge Ocers and Master trainers were trained

in this way. The trainings were conducted by the faculty of trained Naonal Trainers (NTs) and

MTFs drawn from the Directorate and CARD (CSO).

CHARGE LEVEL TRAINING

Charge level trainings for enumerators and supervisors were organised at charge headquarters

between 22nd April and 5th May 2010. The three days training was given by the MTs which

included two days for the House Lisng Operaon and one day for NPR.

1.11 TRAINING PLAN FOR SECOND PHASE

STATE LEVEL TRAINING

State level training was conducted by the Directorate at the state headquarter on 4th December

2010 for Divisional Census ocers, Municipal Commissioners and Principal Census Ocers of

Municipal Corporaons, District Census Ocers, addional District Census Ocers and City

Census Ocers. A separate state level training was organized for Special Charge Ocers at

state headquarters on 26th November 2010. The trainings were conducted by the faculty of

trained NTs.

DIVISION LEVEL TRAINING

Division level trainings were held at the divisional headquarters from 8th to 27th December

2010 in which Divisional Commissioners, Collectors and Principal Census Ocers, Municipal

Commissioners and Principal Census Ocers, Divisional Census Ocers, District Census

Ocers, addional District Census Ocers, City Census Ocers & Charge Ocers were

trained. The Divisional trainings were organized by the Directorate with the acve support ofstate oce of UNICEF. The trainings were conducted by the faculty of trained NTs and MTFs.

DISTRICT LEVEL TRAINING

District level trainings were held at the district headquarters during 5th and 13th January 2011.

The Charge Ocers and MTs were trained in this three day training by the facules of trained

NTs and MTFs.

CHARGE LEVEL TRAINING

Charge level trainings were held at the charge headquarters from 15th to 31st January 2011.All the enumerators and supervisors were trained for three days by the MTs. The census eld

sta took Census Oath aer collecng the census material on 4th or 5th February 2011 and

assumed dues of their alloed EBs.

1.12 VILLAGE/ WARD CENSUS PLAN

It was felt that community wisdom with the help of peoples parcipaon would enhance quality

and coverage in census. To this end, Village and Ward Census Groups prepared Village/ Ward

Census Plans in all villages and wards of the state. Vital local informaon like various habitaons

in village/ ward, people with disabilies, Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe populaon, nomadic

populaon, instuonal households and houseless persons were menoned in the Village/

Ward Census Plans. This also helped to garner local support for the census enumerators.


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1.13 COMMUNICATION PLAN

Detailed district and charge level Communicaon Plans were prepared in the state. The plans

helped ensure mely communicaon of census related informaon for eecve monitoring and

supervision. The plans consisted of two parts. One part comprised of mobile phone numbers of

all census enumerators and supervisors. The other part comprised of mobile phone numbers

of local residents who provided informaon about census coverage in their locality.

The Communicaon Plans were operaonalised by control rooms which were set up at all

levels, from the Directorate to the districts and municipal corporaons to charges. Control

rooms were equipped with all communicaon facilies like telephones, faxes and computers

with internet facilies. The plans were very successful in collecng and relaying informaon

from the eld about operaons management and helped in redressal of complaints in real me

USE OF SMS FOR CENSUS FUNCTIONARIES

Mobile phone numbers of census eld sta collected with the help of Communicaon Plans

were intensively used to send important messages to all the census funconaries using bulkShort Message Service (SMS) through a free service (way2SMS) from the Directorate of

Census Operaons. At one go, the directorate was able to relay informaon to all the census

funconaries at the division, district, charge and supervisor level. On similar lines districts

followed the method of communicaon with their enumerators.

1.14 PUBLICITY AND MEDIA PLAN

NATIONAL LEVEL

All modes of Publicity - Mass media, Public relaons, Outreach acvies and Digital media

were used to spread awareness and ensure the cooperaon of all stakeholders. A scienc

media plan was designed by a professional agency that also created the media content in both

the phases of the Census. While the general theme was that of including everybody without

omission, special emphasis was laid on vulnerable groups like women, elderly, disabled, infants,

homeless and primive tribes in forest and remote areas. Celebrity endorsements were also

broadcast.

CENSUS OFPRIMITIVE TRIBESPatalkot region comprises twelve

villages and thirteen hamlets

located in deep depression of a

valley where ridges separate the

villages. Located in Tamia tahsil of

Chhindwara district, the region is

predominantly inhabited by the

Gonds and the primive Bharia

tribes. The villages in this region

can be visited by foot through a

narrow trail that goes down the

steep hills.PHOTO COURTESY : UNICEF


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STATE LEVEL

Media and publicity plan was prepared at the Directorate and all the districts of the state, using

separate strategies for rural and urban areas.

Appeals to general public for co-operaon in census were issued by His Excellency the Governor

and Honourable Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and were published on the rst day of

operaons during both the phases of Census 2011.

In order to create popular awareness about census in public, appeals from naonal and state

level brand ambassadors were used in creaves and designs of publicity material, while their

endorsements were broadcast on radio and television. Mr. Gulzar (poet and lyricist) rendered

a special couplet for Census 2011 in Madhya Pradesh, and appealed for the enumeraon of

people with disabilies.

Theme based posters, banners, sckers and hoardings were prepared with help of a professional

agency, Madhyam (State Publicity Corporaon) and support of the state oce of UNICEF.

They were extensively used in cies and villages, on airports, railway and bus staons, on

public transport, government and private vehicles and ATM machines (Punjab Naonal Bank)

for creang mass awareness.

Census 2011 also made use of internet social networking sites like Facebook, Twier and

YouTube to make available census related informaon for the net-savvy secons of society.

Directorate launched its own website, set up Madhya Pradesh census page on Facebook and

started a channel on YouTube with census related videos.

A special video spot on people with disabilies was prepared in collaboraon with Arushi

and UNICEF. Various other audio and video spots were produced and broadcast over All India

Radio, local FM channels and Doordarshan. The spots were adopted naonally and broadcast

in all Hindi speaking states. These were also used on cable television networks and cinema

halls across the state. Talk shows were organised in the studios of All India Radio, FM channels,

Doordarshan and Gyan Darshan (IGNOU radio channel)

Mobile telephone networks were used to send bulk Short Message Service (SMS) with

census slogans to mobile phone users for mass awareness about census enumeraon with

complementary support of mobile companies like BSNL, Airtel, Reliance and Tata Indicom.

Census slogans were also printed on electricity bills with the support of electricity distribuon

companies, and census sckers were pasted on packets of milk products by the State Milk

Federaon.

In the parade and celebraons held on the Republic day in the State Capital as well as in many

districts, census tableaus depicng various themes of Census of 2011 were displayed.

The directorate also organized a car rally for the blind at Bhopal in collaboraon with Arushi

and other sponsors of the event like Sight savers. The rally was unique in that while the cars

were driven by volunteers of Bhopal city in their own vehicles, the blind people - who came

from all over the state - were navigators and were given codes in Braille to chart the rally route.

A photo exhibion on disability with Gulzars couplets was displayed at various locaons in

Bhopal city, including the Secretariat and the Vidhan Sabha. The events were well covered in

the media and helped in enumeraon coverage of people with disabilies in Census 2011.

DISTRICT, CHARGE AND VILLAGE LEVELS

Lots of events across the state in various districts and charges were organized to create mass

Tumhara haq hai,tum gin mein aao

Jo bhi ho, Jaise bhi

ho, naam likhao

Gulzar


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awareness about Census 2011, like talk shows on radio and television, car and cycle rallies,

street plays, marathons, kavi-sammelans, quizzes, debates and essay wring compeons

for school and college students etc. Many more were done during the Census Week from 26th

January to 2nd February. Rallies for enumeraon of people with disabilies were organised

in Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur and many other places by the district administraon. A special

menon may be made of Sehore for exemplary eorts made by the census team in the district.

Census was listed as an important agenda item of the Gram Sabha meengs held on the

occasion of the Republic Day, 26th January, 2011. Block level conferences of members of PRIs

(Panchaya Raj Instuons) were also organised in all the blocks of the state during December

2010 and January 2011 to sensize them about Census 2011.

Janganana Suchana Khidki (census informaon windows) were set up in Haat Bazars (rural

markets) and fairs (melas) all over the state to convey informaon about census to rural folk.

Wall wring of census slogans and public announcements were extensively used in both urban

and rural areas.

1.15 CENSUS IN SCHOOLS

A new iniave of Census in Schools was launched across the country. Purpose of this

programme was to make the children aware about the census enumeraon of their families and

neighborhoods and also to expose them to the signicance of census data in the development

of the country. The programme covered about 60 to 80 schools in each of the 640 Districts in

the country and was specically designed for parcipaon by the students of the enre school

in general and the students of class VI, VII and VIII in parcular.

In Madhya Pradesh the original kits received from the oce of Registrar General of India

were sent to all the Head Start Schools along-with a census media CD with power-point

presentaons, census e-learning module and audio-video spots for organizing acvies in the

schools. The Commissioner of Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh in turn replicated

the kits and sent them to all 1.15 lac primary and middle schools of the state.

1.16 CHANGES IN THE HOUSELISTING AND HOUSING CENSUSSCHEDULES

The aempt at every Census is to maintain connuity in order to allow comparisons and give

a me series of data. However, every Census also permits a few changes in keeping with the

demands of stake holders. The changes made in Census 2011 are as follows:

(i) Type of wall:A dierenaon has been made between stone packed with mortar and

stone not packed with mortar. The Codes in Census 2011 are:

Census 2001 Code Census 2011 Code

Grass/thatch/bamboo 1 Grass/thatch/bamboo 1

Plasc/polythene 2 Plasc/polythene 2

Mud/ unburnt brick 3 Mud/unburnt brick 3

Wood 4 Wood 4

GI/metal/asbestos sheets 5 Stone packed with mortar 5

Burnt Brick 6 Stone not packed with mortar 6

Stone 7 GI/metal/asbestos sheets 7Concrete 8 Burnt Brick 8

Any Other 9 Concrete 9

Any Other 0


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(ii) Type of roof:The Codes for material of roof have been modied by disnguishing hand-

made les from machine made-les. The codes used in Census 2011 compared to the Census

2001 are given below:


Grass/thatch/bamboo/wood/mud etc.

1 Grass/thatch/bamboo/wood/mudetc.

1

Plasc/polythene 2 Plasc/polythene 2

Tiles 3 Hand made les 3

Slate 4 Machine made les 4

GI/metal/asbestos sheets 5 Burnt brick 5

Brick 6 Stone 6

Stone 7 Slate 7

Concrete 8 GI/metal/asbestos sheets 8

Any Other 9 Concrete 9

Any other 0

(iii) Main source of drinking water: The heading of the queson has been changed fromDrinking water source to Main source of drinking water. Drinking water cannot be

classied as safe or unsafe without proper tesng. However an aempt has been made for

improving the categorisaon of the sources of drinking water through provision of separate

codes for tap water from treated source and tap water from untreated source. The set

of codes as used in Census 2011 and the corresponding Census 2001 Codes are as follows:


Drinking Water Source Main Source of Drinking Water

Tap 1 Tap water from treated source 1

Handpump 2 Tap water from untreated source 2

Tubewell 3 Covered well 3

Well 4 Un-covered well 4

Tank/pond/lake 5 Hand pump 5

River/canal 6 Tube well/borehole 6

Spring 7 Spring 7

Any Other 8 River/canal 8

Tank/pond/lake 9

Other Sources 0

(iv) Source of Lighng: The heading has been modied as Main Source of Lighng

(v) Bathing facility within premises: Realising that bathroom within the house was a

predominantly urban phenomenon, the heading has been changed as bathing facility within

the premises. Moreover, the categories have been expanded to include Enclosure without

roof. The code list for the Census 2011 along with codes as were in Census 2001 are given

below:


Bathroom within the house Bathing facility available within premisesYes 1 Bathroom 1

No 2 Enclosure without roof 2

No 3


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(vi) Latrine:In Census 2001, informaon was sought on the availability of latrine within the

house; in Census 2011 it has been modied as available Within the premises. Aempt has

also been made to include other types of latrines. These categories are more in keeping with

the WHO/UNICEF categories. The set of codes as used in Census 2011 and the corresponding

Census 2001 Codes are as follows:


No Latrine 0 Flush/pour fush latrine connected to

Service Latrine 1 Piped sewer system 1

Pit Latrine 2 Sepc system 2

Water Closet 3 Other system 3

Pit Latrine

With slab/Venlated Improved Pit 4

Without slab/open pit 5

Night soil disposed into open drain 6

Service Latrine

Night soil removed by human 7

Night soil serviced by animals 8

No latrine within premises

Public Latrine 9

Open 0

(vii) Computer:This is a new queson. Computer and internet penetraon in the country is sll

a maer of conjecture as there are no authenc sources for this data. The Census 2011 would

give rich data on this, which would be a vital input for policy planning. The codes for the new

queson in Census 2011 are as follows:

Census 2011 Code

Computer/Laptop possessed

Yes

With Internet 1

Without Internet 2

No 3

(viii) Telephone: The scope of the queson on Telephone has been expanded to sepa-

rately include Mobile Phone also. With the rapid expansion of Mobile Phone cover-

age, tradional land line telephones have become less aracve. The present Cen-

sus would give rich data on this aspect. The codes in Census 2011 are as follows:


Telephone Telephone/

Mobile phone

Yes 1 Yes

Landline only 1

Mobile only 2

No 2 Both 3

No 4


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FEATURES OF THE CENSUS 2011 QUESTIONNAIRES Forms designed by Naonal Instute of Design, Ahmadabad

Each Form has a Bar Code and a disnct Number

Printed in select high-end Presses having capacity for digital prinng

Special colours used to enable complete drop-out aer scanning

Pre-prinng of State and District Locaon Codes aempted for the rst me

Facility for nong connuity made in the Form

Specicaon for Paper evolved in consultaon with experts

Paper quality

1.17 NEW FEATURES IN HOUSEHOLD SCHEDULE

a) Pre-prinng of Locaon parculars up to District: A highlight of Census 2011 was the

pre-prinng of locaon codes up to District level and the use of shorter Locaon Codes in the

eld. This reduced the burden on the Enumerators to an extent and improved compliance in

the wring of locaon Codes on every Schedule.

b) Prinng of Bar Codes/ Form Number: The introducon of unique Form Number and

Bar Codes in each Schedule was a new feature. This greatly facilitated proper inventory

management and tracking of Schedules.

c) Colour Drop-Out: The colours chosen for prinng the Schedule were such that they

dropped out totally aer scanning. This is designed to facilitate considerable improvement in

Intelligent Character Recognion (ICR).

d) Edge Cut: Cung one edge in the Schedule is designed to facilitate proper alignment of

Schedules during scanning.

e) Linking of Houselisng with Populaon Enumeraon: A procedure to link the Housing

Census data of matched households to the Populaon Enumeraon data has been aempted

for the rst me.

f) Tracking system in case of more than one form is used: A provision to record the number

of the connuaon forms used in the case of normal/Instuonal households where more

than one Schedule has been used.

g) Descripon of Instuonal Households: A provision has been made for recording the

descripon of Instuonal households.

h) Gender:In a radical departure from the past, a provision has been made for the respondent

to return a gender other than male or female. This is an opon to be exercised by the respondent

and not determined by the Enumerator.

i) Date of birth:A provision has been made to record age in completed years as well as date of

birth. This is expected to improve reporng of age at least among a secon of the populaon.

j) Current marital status:Separate Codes have been assigned for Divorced and Separated.

k) Disability: The queson on disability has been vastly enlarged in Census 2011. In

comparison to the 5 Codes in Census 2001, 8 Codes have been provided in the present Census.

The new Codes are: Mental Retardaon, Mental Illness, Any Other and Mulple Disability.

The quesons and the instrucons have been nalised aer extensive deliberaon with civil


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society organisaons and the Ministry of Social Jusce and Empowerment. Respondents with

mulple disability would now be able to report up to 3 disabilies for the rst me.

l) Status of current aendance in educaonal instuon: Separate codes have been given for

persons who have never aended any educaonal instuon and persons who have aended

earlier. An addional code for recording persons aending special instuon for the disabled

has also been added.

m) Worked any me during last year: The queson on Work Status has been modied as

below:

Main Worker

If worked for 6 months or more

Marginal Worker

If worked for 3 months or more but less than 6 months

If worked for less than 3 months

Non Worker

If not worked at all

Such a classicaon would not only retain the older categorizaon of Main, Marginal and Non

Worker but would also oer richer data on the period of work.

n) Non-economic acvity:A category of Others has been included to account for commercial

sex workers and persons involved in illegal acvies. A new code for rener has also been

introduced.

o) Migraon: While processing of the Census 2001 data, it was found that the non-responsewith respect to providing the district names was relavely more both in the queson on

place of birth and place of last residence. It was felt that as the names of the districts might

have undergone a change, the respondent was unable to provide the correct names. Thus, in

Census 2011, an added item, namely, the name of village/town has been added in both these

quesons.

p) Number of children born alive during last one year: Menon of the specic period 1st

March, 2010 to 28th February, 2011 on the body of the Schedule has been done.

QUESTIONS DROPPED

a) Household engaged in culvaon/plantaon : The following queson was canvassed in

Census 2001: Total net area of land under culvaon/plantaon ; Net area of irrigated land

and Tenure status of land under culvaon/plantaon. The queson was canvassed but could

not be tabulated on account of widespread non-response. There were also other technical

problems like, variaon in the units of measurment, comparability with other sources of data

namely, the Agricultural Census, land holding survey of the NSS, etc. Hence it was decided to

drop this quesons in Census 2011.

b) A comparision of the quesons proposed in Census 2011 with the quesons canvassed in

Census 2011 is presented below.


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Sl.

No

Census 2001 Census 2011 Remarks

1 Name of person Name of the person No Change

2 Relaonship to head Relaonship to head No Change

3 Sex Sex Provision for returning a gender other thanmale or female

4 Age in completed years Date of Birth Date of Birth in addion to age

5 Current marital status Current marital status Seperate code for Divorced andSeperated

6 Age at marriage Age at marriage No Change

7 Religion Religion No Change

8 Mother tongue Mother tongue No Change

9 Other languages known Other languages known No Change

10 Literacy status Literacy status No Change

11 Highest educaonal level aained Highest educaonal level aained No Change

12 Status of aendance in educaonalinstuon

Status of aendance in educaonalinstuon

Seperate Code for persons who have neveraended and who have aended before

13 Disability Disability Queson modied. Three quesons insteadof one.

14 Did the person work any me last year Worked any me during last year Addional code for two types of marginalworkers (3-6 months, less than 3 months)

For main or marginal worker

15 Category of economic acvity Work category No Change

16 Occupaon of the person Occupaon No Change

17 Describe in detail the nature of industry,trade or service

Nature of industry, trade or service No Change

18 Class of worker Class of worker No Change

For marginal workers or non-workers

19 Record Code of non-economic acvity Non-economic acvity Adding a seperate code for reners

20 Is the person seeking/available for work Seeking/available for work No Change

For other workers

21 Journey to place to work

22 Distance from residence to place of workin kilometers

One way distance from usualresidence to place of work inkilometers

No Change

23 Mode of travel to place of work (Code) Mode of travel to place of work (Code) No Change

24 Birth place Birth place Name of village/town is also added

25 Place of last residence Place of last residence Name of village/town is also added

26 At the me of migraon, was the place oflast residence Rural/Urban

At the me of migraon, was theplace of last residence Rural/Urban

No Change

27 Reason for migraon of this person Reason for migraon of this person No Change

28 Duraon of stay in this village or townsince migraon

Duraon of stay in this village or townsince migraon

No Change

For ever married woman

29 Number of children surviving at present Number of children surviving atpresent

No Change

30 Total no. of children ever born alive Total no. of children ever born alive No Change

For currently married woman

31 Number of children born alive during lastone year

Number of children born alive duringlast one year

No Change

For household engaged in culvaon/plantaon

32 Total net area of land under culvaon/

plantaon

Dropped

For currently married woman

33 Net area of irrigated land Dropped

34 Tenure status of land under culvaon/plantaon

Dropped


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1.18 MONITORING AND SUPERVISION

Honourable Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh wrote to all the Ministers, Members of

Parliament, Members of Legislave Assembly and Chair-persons of Zilla Panchayats to elicit

their parcipaon for complete census coverage in the state. Similarly Honble Home Minister

wrote to all Mayors of municipal corporaons and Chair-persons of municipal bodies.

The State Government issued circular for inspecon of census in the eld by Principal

Secretaries / Secretaries of various departments in all the districts of the state to ensure

quality and complete coverage. The senior ocers inspected the census work in districts and

provided valuable guidance to Principal/ District census ocers and their census eld sta and

submied their reports to the Department of Home Aairs. The operaons were found to be

sasfactory.

The directorate has been in regular touch with the divisions, districts and charges by way of

video-conferences. As many as 16 video-conferences (VCs) were organized with support of

Naonal Informacs Centre (NIC) for training on important issues and periodic monitoring

of census operaons. Divisional census ocers, Principal Census Ocers (Collectors andMunicipal Commissioners), District and City Census Ocers and Charge Ocers aended the

VCs from me to me. Principal Secretary and Secretary of the Department of Home Aairs

presided over many of the VCs. Registrar General of India himself addressed the Collectors,

Municipal Commissioners and District Census Ocers in one of them. The cause of census was

also taken up a few mes in the monthly samadhan online and parakh video-conferences of

the Honble Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary of the state.

The districts deputed senior district ocials as zonal ocers and members of inspecng teams

for monitoring of census operaons in the district. Gender MTFs from CSOs observed quality

in gender sensive districts of the state. Senior ocers of the Directorate were deployed in all

the divisions and trained directorate employees were staoned in all the district of the state

for hand-holding the census operaons, proper monitoring and supervision.

The districts acvely collaborated with CSOs during the course of the operaons for quality

coverage of people with disabilies, homeless in urban and rural areas, primive tribes in

remote and forest areas and the issues of gender and migraon. CSOs like Arambh and their

sister organisaons helped in enumeraon of the homeless in municipal corporaons of the

state. Similarly other CSOs like those under the banner of state Jan Abhiyan Parishad and

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1.19 USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

The Directorate designed and implemented online Management Informaon System (MIS) on

its website with technical support of the state Naonal Informacs Centre (NIC). The online

MIS made possible the monitoring of coverage progress of households in all enumeraon

blocks of all the districts in the state twice a week. The periodic monitoring (every 3 days) was

eected with the help of the Communicaon Plans and control rooms established at chargeand district level. Periodic reports generated by the MIS were used for eecve monitoring by

the directorate as well as districts and charges to ensure full and mely coverage.

DATA CENTRE FOR PROVISIONAL TOTALS

The online MIS was also used for entry of provisional census data aer the compleon of

Revisional Round. A data centre with adequate number of computers and broadband internet

connecons was established at the district level where data of enumerator abstracts of all the

enumeraon blocks were entered online. This helped to complete tabulaon of provisional

census data and generaon of census reports within a record me. The online data entry also

made possible the checking of provisional census gures by an expert team of senior ocers

of the Directorate in real me.

1.20 CENSUS HELPLINE

In addion to the Naonal help line, professionally run Call Centre was established at the

State level (toll free number 1800 210 1011) with support of UNICEF. The call centre was very

successfully used in clarifying doubts of the eld census sta and in answering queries and

recording complaints of general public. Complaints were recorded on-line and district/ charge

level census ocials ensured their redressal within 24 hours which was also entered on-line.

Agents at the call centre were properly trained before hand. Moreover, help desks and help-lines were also established in charges and districts during the census operaons.

1.21 INNOVATIONS AND NEW EFFORTS

A large number of innovaon and new eorts were iniated by the Directorate in Census

2011. District and Village/ ward level Census Groups and Census Plans; Communicaon

Plans; Census call centre and help line; partnership with Civil Society Organizaons (CSOs) in

census enumeraon, publicity and trainings; GIS maps of administrave units and Bhopal city;

State Census Brand Ambassadors in IEC acvies; Directorate web-site and use of internet

Social Networking sites like Face book and YouTube; producon and use of audio-video

aids in trainings; Photo Identy Cards and Census Oath for census eld sta; Field diary for

supervisors; Online MIS for census management and provisional totals; video-conferences for

monitoring; SMS for census workers/ ocials and SMS with census appeals for mobile phone

users; inspecons by Senior ocers of Sate Government and collaboraon with State UNICEF

oce were all done for the rst me in the census history of the state. These innovaons also

made census operaons in the state unique in many ways across the country.

1.22 POST ENUMERATION SURVEY

The Census Organisaon since independence has tradionally been evaluang the results of the

Populaon Census through Post Enumeraon Surveys (PES). No precise esmate of the extent

of error in the census count was ever made prior to independence. The objecve of the PES is

to quanfy the omission and duplicaon in the census enumeraon, that is coverage error as

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at the census called content error. The results are of help in idenfying areas that would need

aenon such as concepts and denions employed, procedures of enumeraon and related

instrucons to the eld sta, etc. as well as in improving the conduct of future censuses. No

aempts, however, are made to adjust the census results based on the PES results.

During Census of India 2011, PES of both Houselisng Operaons and Populaon Enumeraon

has been proposed to be conducted separately aer the conclusion of the respecve phases.

The eld work of the PES of the rst phase, that is, Houselisng Operaons has been completed

in Madhya Pradesh during 16 August to 15 September, 2010. The sampling frame used for

selecon of samples for conducng the PES of this phase was the sampling units of the Sample

Registraon System (SRS). A total of 86 SRS Units were selected for PES spread over the State.

Total number of Houselisng Blocks in each SRS Unit depended upon the populaon of SRS

Unit. Sta of Directorate of Census Operaons conducted the eld work and the enumerators

were specially trained for conducng the PES.

It is proposed to conduct the PES of the second phase of Census of India 2011, that is,

Populaon Enumeraon in April and May 2011 in the state. A total of 239 Enumeraon Blocks

of Populaon Enumeraon has been selected for the purpose of esmang coverage error. For

measuring content error, 20 percent sub-sample of the selected enumeraon blocks has been

selected. Department of Economics and Stascs, Government of Madhay Pradesh has agreed

to provide their sta for the eld work and supervision. Intensive training will be imparted to

them before the eld operaon.

Net omission rates (per thousand persons) at the All-India level - by sex andresidence - are presented below:

Sex Total Rural Urban

1981 1991 2001 1981 1991 2001 1981 1991 2001

Persons 18.0 17.6 23.3 15.0 16.8 16.8 27.6 19.8 39.8

Males 17.1 17.3 23.5 13.8 16.0 16.2 27.7 21.1 41.5

Females 18.8 17.9 23.1 16.3 17.7 17.5 27.5 18.3 37.9


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1.23 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Census is one of the largest administrave exercises in our country and requires extensive

co-ordinaon and management on a monumental scale. I acknowledge the help, support and

co-operaon of each of those people and dignitaries who helped to make it a success.

On the eve of commencement of the house lisng operaon and populaon enumeraon His

Excellency, the Governor of Madhya Pradesh and the Honourable Chief Minister of Madhya

Pradesh issued appeals for the people of Madhya Pradesh to provide complete and correct

informaon in census. Honble CM also wrote to the Ministers, MPs, MLAs and Chair-persons

of Zilla Panchayats to elicit their parcipaon in the census. Honble Home Minister of the state

in turn wrote to Mayors and Chair-persons of municipal bodies. I express my sincere gratude

to them.

I am grateful to Chief Secretary, Mr Avani Vaish and Principal Secretary, Department of Home

Aairs, Mr Ashok Das (and earlier, Mr Rajan Katoch) for their unsnted guidance and support

to the successful compleon of Census 2011 in the state.

My thanks to Addional Chief Secretary, Department of Forest; Principal Secretaries of the

Departments of Finance, General Administraon, Educaon, Revenue, Labour and Tribal Welfare;

Chief Post Master General (CPMG) of the state; Secretaries/ Commissioners of Departments

of Rural Development, Urban Development, Social Welfare, Rajya Shiksha Kendra (SSA),

Revenue (and Controller Government Press), Public Relaons, Naonal Rural Health Mission,

Excise, Treasuries; Managing Directors of Milk Federaon, Tourism Development Corporaon,

Madhayam; Chairmen and Managing Directors of Electricity Distribuon Companies; Chief

General Manager (BSNL); Regional Director (IGNOU); Regional Manager (Punjab Naonal

Bank); Staon Directors of All India Radio and Doordarshan and Deputy director (Press

Informaon Bureau) for extending support of their departments and organisaons for census

operaons. Thanks are also due to all the senior ocers of State Government who toured the

state, inspected the eld operaons and provided valuable guidance to the district ocials.

I am grateful to Secretary (Home) and Nodal Ocer for Census 2011 for enabling co-ordinaon

with the State Government. Ms. Seema Sharma, Mr. Chandrahas Dube, Mr. V M Upadhyay

and Mr. Vijay Kataria ociated as nodal Ocers from me to me. The longest tenure of Mr

Chandrahas Dube, his pragmac and pro-acve approach le a lasng impact on census. All

out support of all the nodal ocers was of great help in the successful conduct of Census 2011

in the state.

Special thanks to State Informaon Ocer (Naonal Informacs Centre) and his dedicated

team who arranged the video conferences, hosted the website and designed the Census MIS

in a very short me.

This monumental task was made possible by the leadership and involvement of Divisional

Commissioners, District Collectors and Principle Census Ocer, Commissioners of municipal

corporaons and Principal Census Ocers; and the hard work of Divisional Census ocers,

District Census Ocers, Addional District Census Ocers, City Census Ocers, Addional City

Census Ocers, Charge Ocers and Special Charge Ocers. All MTFs, MTs, census enumerators

and supervisors must be appreciated for their pains taking eorts in the eld.

I am indebted to Mr. Gulzar (poet & lyricist) and Ms Divyanka Tripathi (Actor) for complementarily

endorsing the mass publicity campaign as State Census Ambassadors. Their popular appeals

went a long way in elicing support of one and all in the state.


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I would like to express my hearelt appreciaon to the team of Arushi for their exemplary

commitment to the cause of disability and their acve roles in trainings and publicity. I also

acknowledge the work of CARD during trainings and enumeraon and the way they worked

hand-in-hand with the directorate. Thanks are also due to Arambh and many other CSOs

including the ones of Jan Abhiyan Parishad for their collaboraon in populaon enumeraon.

Appreciaons are also extended to the mobile companies who relayed census appeals to all

their mobile phone users without charge.

My special thanks are due to UNICEF, the State Representave Ms Tania Goldner and Program

Ocer (SPPME) Ms Veena Bandopadhyay for their acve collaboraon during the course of

census operaons. Thanks are also for Mr. Anil Gula of UNICEF for documentaon and media

coverage.

My profound regards and gratude are reserved for Dr. C Chandramauli, Registrar General

and Census Commissioner, India, for his leadership, guidance and constant encouragement at

every stage of this monumental task. I am also grateful to Mr. R C Sethi, Addional RGI; Mr. S K

Chakrabar, DDG (NPR); Mr. Deepak Rastogi, DDG; Mr. C Chakravorty and Ms Suman Prashar,

Consultants, for their help from me to me. All the ocers and sta of the Oce of the

Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India deserve credit for their valuable support.

Lastly and importantly, dedicaon, enthusiasm and devoon to duty shown by the ocers and

sta of the Directorate of Census Operaons who toiled day and night to make this naonal

task a resounding success is really commendable. Menon may be made of Mr. S. L. Jain, Joint

Director, who managed the show in the state ll the me I joined the organizaon in May 2010.

I extend my hearelt appreciaon to all my colleagues.

Bhopal SACHIN SINHA

Dated: 4th April 2011 Director of Census Operaons, Madhya Pradesh


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Censex 2011 Report

Documents

census of india

overview of census

indian census

theword census

census ofindia

rstsynchronous census

world populaon

seled populaon