India will conduct the world’s largest Census in 2021 using digital technology, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Friday, 1 February. In her union budget speech, Sitharaman confirmed that the upcoming Census 2021 will be the first “digital census” in the history of India and that the government has allocated over ₹3,700 crores for the same.
“The forthcoming census could be the first digital census in the history of India. For this monumental, milestone-marking task, I have allocated ₹3,768 crore in the year 2021-22,” FM Sitharaman said during the 2021 Union Budget speech in the Lok Sabha.
It should be noted that Home Minister Amit Shah had made an announcement regarding this in 2019.
“Census data will be collected through a mobile app. This is for the first time that the mobile app will be used for the census exercise. India will be moving from the pen and paper census to digital data, which will be a big revolution in the country’s census exercise,” Shah had said according to an Economic Times report.
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