Missed Census? A call or email can ensure you are also counted

Missed Census? A call or email can ensure you are also counted

New Delhi: Have you been left out of the Census exercise? Then just call up or email the authorities to inform them about the ‘miss’ and they will soon dispatch officials to include your household in the count. 
    The office of the Census Commissioner of India has launched a toll-free call centre helpline number — 1800 110 111 — for citizens if they have been missed by the Census officials during the enumeration process. The call centre will then route the missing report to the official concerned, who will subsequently ask the enumerators in his jurisdiction to pay a visit to the citizen on a priority basis, a Census official said. 
    An individual can also send an e-mail to ‘rgoffice.rgi@nic.in’ informing the Census authorities that they have not been counted, the official said. 
    The helpline and email can be utilised both for the Census exercise and the enumeration under the National Population Register, the official added. 
    “All the states and Union Territories have earmarked the date for commencement of the exercise and if any citizen finds that his family has not been covered, he or she can inform us,” he said. 
    Apart from the online and telephone facilities, citizens can also inform the local tehsildar, ward officer of his area — who is the designated officer for Census — about the non-inclusion. The commissioner, collector, or district magistrate can also be contacted in such cases. 
    The Census would cover all 640 districts, 5,767 tehsils, 7,742 towns and more than six lakh villages in the country. More than 24 crore households will be visited and 1.20 billion people enumerated during this exercise. 
    To carry out this massive exercise, more than 2.5 million people will be engaged, including retired government employees. PTI

Publication: Times Of India Hyderabad;Date: May 10, 2010;Section: Main  Edition; Page: 8