In 2011 (without NPR -update) and 2001, the census costs around 2,200 billion GBP or over 650 billion GBP. | Photo loan: Mohd Arif
When the cabinet committee for political matters decided to include the caste of the caste in the upcoming census, the government is expected to offer money for the census in the additional requirements for grants (SDG).
The union budget for the 2025-26 financial year has delivered a little more than 500 billion GBP as part of the conductor counting and statistics. According to footnotes in the document, it contains provisions for the office of Chancellor and People’s Counting Commissioner of India as well as various RGI systems, including the National Population Register (NPR) and the census editions, 2021.
A much greater amount is required to complete the practice and update of the National Population Register (NPR).
Costs for the census
Six years ago, in a cabinet decision dated December 24, 2019, the proposal for the implementation of the census of India in 2021 was described at a price of over 8,700 billion GBP and the update of NPR at a price of over 3,900 billion GBP. It was decided that the home list and the fight against housing should take place between April to September 2020 and the population count between February 9 and 28, 2021. With the exception of Assam, the plan was updated together with the list and the census of house apartments. Around 30 LAKH field officials were assigned throughout the job. Due to the pandemic, however, the entire exercise had to be put on ice.
Although the government has not given a schedule for the implementation of the census, it is expected that it would start before the BIHAR assembly elections before the end of this year and that a larger amount would be required in this tax.
In 2011 (without NPR update) and the 2001 census costs around 2,200 billion GBP or over 650 billion GBP.
If the government wants to complete the practice of the census together with the list of the casting census and the update of NPR, it can present SDG in the monsoon session of the parliament.
SDG is a mechanism through which the government applies for the approval of the Lok Sabha for funds for expenses about the budget estimates. Although the government can move three SDGs (one in the monsoon session, second in the winter meeting and finally in the budget meeting of the parliament), there have been only two SDGs in recent years (one in winter and second in the budget meeting), since the cash flow and the output situation became clear until then. In view of the political urgency, however, an SDG could be brought to a monsoon session in order to finance the census exercise.
Published on May 1, 2025