Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

NEW DELHI: Individual data collected as part of Census 2021 won’t be used for preparation of any other database, including NRC, the MHA reassured the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The provisions of the Census Act, 1948, bar individual data collected during Census from being made public, it said.
Junior home minister Nityanand Rai said that the provisions of the Census Act, 1948, bar individual data collected in Census exercise from being made public and only the aggregated Census data at various levels is placed in the public domain.
Among the demographic and socio- economic parameters on which data will be collected during Census, which will also be the first digital census with facility of self-enumeration by the respondents, are education, SC/ST, religion, language, marriage, disability, occupation and migration of the individuals.
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Agniveers will be exempted from physical test, RS told
Agniveers who are demobilised after completing their four-year stint in the Armed forces will get an exemption from the physical efficiency test, the government informed the Rajya Sabha.