Context :
Union
Budget 2021: FM Confirms 2021 Census Will be First Digital Census in India
Extract :
Ø he 2021 national census of India will be held digitally, confirmed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her Union Budget
2021 speech. Touching upon the topic, Sitharaman confirmed that the upcoming
census of India would become the very first one in the history of India to be held digitally, marking India’s transit towards digitising government and
public services, and continue transiting towards paperless operation
systems. The FM’s statement falls in line with a previous statement given by
Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2019.
Ø Back in 2019, Shah had stated that the 2021
national census would be held fully digitally, and had further highlighted that
the government is set to spend up to Rs
12,000 crore in setting up the digital framework for the census. He had also confirmed that a mobile app
will be used in the process of census 2021. While the exact specifics have not
been issued yet, the previous reports have highlighted that those certified to carry out the census process may be encouraged to used their own mobile phones for the
process. It will also be
interesting to note the infrastructure that the central government sets up in a
bid to maintain the sanctity of collected data.
Ø The 2021 census of India is set to begin in March 2021, after the
previous census was undertaken in 2011 – marking India’s population at 1.21
billion back then.
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This is indeed a GOOD
beginning .
10 years back, census
required 30 million enumerators to manually enter citizen data in 1.21 billion
PAPER FORMS
And possibly required, thousands
of DATA ENTRY operators, many months to enter these data into Servers
May be in 2021, are we ready to capture all data DIRECTLY into a Mobile App ?
I suggest following
process :
Ø Once
data of all ( 1400 million ? ) citizen gets uploaded onto the Server, downloading
/ installing of Mobile App will be made mandatory for
all citizen ( by that time, I expect everyone to have a Smart phone – which,
itself would be a DATA FIELD – with Mobile Number and E Mail ID – as optional )
Ø After data of all citizen is uploaded, every
day, server will push onto the mobile screens of 5 MILLION citizen, the CENSUS
FORM , which is fully pre-filled with his / her data captured
during 2021 Census ( as being planned with income-details for online IT Returns
)
Ø Citizen
will UPDATE the changed / missing / new data and click EDITED , for auto over-write
in Server
Ø If
he fails to click EDITED for 24 hours, EDIT-FORM will self-destruct and old
data will continue
Ø Every
citizen will get this opportunity for SELF-UPDATING, once
every year ! ( 5 million / day x 300 days )
of course, if so desired, this pre-filled form can be pushed ( to citizen's mobile ), once every 4 months
Or, System would grant access to each citizen to login ( portal ) and EDIT data anytime / as often as he wants
No need for NPR or NRC ! No duplication of same data, again and again
No opposition from any section of the Society !
Ø For
new-born to “ join “ and dead persons to “ exit “, following technology to be
employed :
BMW,
Ford back development of vehicle 'birth certificates' built on the blockchain
Ø
For details of
suggested MOBILE APP
and INCENTIVES for
CITIZEN ( for self-census
) , read :
Census
2021 : an Unprecedented Opportunity
/ 11 April 2019
Confused
about CENSUS - NPR - NRC ? / 24
Dec 2019
A
Case of Mistaken Identity ? / 28 Dec 2019
Unprecedented
Opportunity Seized !
/ 18 Jan 2020
One Stop
Shops ?
/ 24 Jan 020
CC :
Shri Rajiv Gauba – Home Secretary [ hshso@nic.in / r.gauba@nic.in ]
Shri Vivek Joshi – Registrar General of India ( RGI ) [ rgi.rgi@nic.in ]
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With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 03
Feb 2021
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