Bengaluru: Census authorities in Karnataka have requested deputy commissioners in the state’s districts to hold outreach and awareness campaigns about the
National Population Register (
NPR), as they fear misgivings about the exercise could hurt the forthcoming enumeration of population.
The house listing phase of the Census and updating of NPR will be rolled out simultaneously by mid-April in the BJP-ruled state. About 150,000 enumerators will handle the massive exercise. Officials believe widespread awareness will help address concerns about the NPR data gathering process and make people cooperate with enumerators .
“Sensing the kind of questions that enumerators may face when they do house visits, in all video conferences with deputy commissioners of districts, we have requested to establish contact with local representatives,” SB Vijay Kumar, Director of Census Operations in Karnataka told ET.