The State Government has set up a State-level census coordination committee to ensure coordination and planning of work between the Directorate of Census Affairs and various departments of the state government for the smooth and successful operation of the work of national importance of Madhya Pradesh State Census 2021.
The Chief Secretary has been made the Chairman of Madhya Pradesh Government Committee. Additional Chief Secretary General Administration Department, Additional Chief Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Additional Chief Secretary Planning Economic and Statistics Department, Additional Chief Secretary Finance Department, Principal Secretary Home Department, Principal Secretary Urban Administration and Development Department, Principal Secretary Women and Child Development Department, Principal Secretary Public Relations Department, Principal Secretary School Education Department, Principal Secretary Tribal Welfare Department, Principal Secretary Public Health and Family Welfare Department, Principal Secretary Revenue Department, Secretary Home Department, Commissioner Land Records and Director R.C.V.P. Noronha Academy of Management and Administration have been made members of the committee. Director Directorate of Census Works, Madhya Pradesh Bhopal has been appointed as the convenor of the committee.
The work of the upcoming Census 2021 will be completed in two phases. In the first phase, the work of house listing and census of houses and updating the National Population Register will be completed in a period of 45 days from April to September 2020, as determined by the state government. In the second phase, the work of census will be done from February 9 to 28, 2021.
The committee will work to establish the required cooperation and coordination between the departments related to government in both the phases.
In committee’s meeting, decision will be taken to ensure availability of employees to be engaged in census work, training of master trainer, field trainer and field staff of census as per scheduled programme till 31 December 2019 and finalisation of all proposals regarding change of boundaries of administrative units.