The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) has asked State Directorates to identify and prepare a list of villages, habitats and sections of the population vulnerable to “threat, intimidation or interference” during the ongoing Census exercise.
The Commissioner asked the States to avoid enumerators who may be biased towards specific social or religious communities as far as possible as their appointment for fieldwork could prove counter-productive.
In an April 20 communication to Directorate of Census Operations, RG&CCI Mritunjay Kumar Narayan asked officials to ensure that vulnerable sections of people, which include those affected by communal, political and social tensions are counted as any omission may lead to litigations in future.
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