Hekali calls for accurate, honest exercise
Chizokho Vero
Kohima | May 31
The first phase of Census 2011 exercise in Nagaland will commence from June 1 with house-listings and housing census along with collection of information for preparation of the National Population Register (NPR). As a protocol, Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio is placed on the first list of enumeration for the census scheduled from 9:00 AM at his residential office here.
Enumerators will visit households across the state from June 1 till the 15th of July 2010. If they do not, public can dial the helplines 80146-00620 and 94028-30480. No one is to be left out, said Census officials. Nagaland’s Census Operations Director V Hekali Zhimomi today told Media persons that Census officials and enumerators are committed to ensure “accurate and successful census 2011.” There should be no room for mistakes, she said.
Maintaining that the officials and enumerators are already trained, she was confident that correct information and quality data will be ensured in the exercise. Zhimomi said that in the past there was lack of proper training but this time around the officials and enumerators are properly trained and equipped with knowledge to undertake the exercise. With this, Zhimomi hopes to have an effective census exercise in Nagaland. For the census, the director said, there are 11 principal census officials including 133 census charges in the state (Rural-144 and Urban 19). For the first time, 138 master trainers were introduced to Nagaland. There are 3800 house listing blocks, 740 supervisors and 4200 enumerators who will be listing door-to-door all over the state.
Zhimomi appealed to the people of Nagaland to assist the enumerators and officials to ensure a successful and accurate census. She highlighted the participation of the community for which Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) have been set up for Census-2011. Census exercise and Electoral Roll exercises are two distinct and separate exercises, she reminded.
Important Info for the People
The Census provides the biggest source of data on demographic, economic and other characteristics of the population. Data collected during housing census would provide useful information on housing conditions, household amenities and assets of households.
Details such as name, date of birth, sex and current address, and permanent address, name of father, mother and spouse will be gathered to create the National Population Register. The NPR would have the data of every person enumerated during the census operations, irrespective of age.
According to the directorate of Census Operations of Nagaland, citizens need not waste time, money or energy traveling to native villages. The NPR has due provisions for indicating present and permanent addresses. The public are asked to ensure furnishing correct number of persons (presently residing) for each household.
The public are not to include names at two or more places and also “do not furnish names of people who do not exist, adding that biometrics will detect multiple entries irrespective of the place of entry.” “Be counted only once and help us to achieve correct and accurate census,” it said adding that in case of multiple entries, an individual will have difficulties in availing the benefits of UID number.
The directorate has advised the people to avoid double enumeration. The second phase of census exercise will take place from February 9 to 28, 2011, followed by Revision round from March 1, 2011.
