Principal Secretary Home SN Mishra on Monday inaugurated the six-day Master Trainers Training of the first phase for ‘Census-2021’ at the RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration.
He said that master trainers play an important role in preparing the correct data of complete census of districts. Hence the training must be taken seriously and the doubts must be resolved through communication. The Principal Secretary said that the quality of the final result of the census depends only on the merit of the master trainers.
Mishra said that ‘Census-2021’ can be called digital census. The work of this census will be carried out by ‘Mix Mode Approach’ ie Mobile App and Paper Mode. This census is different from the earlier census. In this, continuous survey and progress of all works will be monitored through the ‘Census Management and Monitoring System’ (CMMS) portal. Real time monitoring of all works related to census will be conducted at every level. Mishra informed that data collection will be done through the app in both the stages of the census, which can be analyzed and used multi-dimensionally.
Deputy Director of Directorate of Census Affairs Ajay Sahay said that 57 master trainers will be trained in the Academy of Administration from November 18 to 23 and 58 between December 2 and 7 for the smooth and successful conduction of this work of national importance. These master trainers will train around 2850 field trainers in different districts. Field trainers will train about 1.74 enumerators/ supervisors. Four national trainers trained in New Delhi will impart training in two phases at the Academy of Administration.
It was informed in the programme that on the last day of the training, participants will be taken on a field visit in the rural and urban unit, so that they can get experience of actual field work. In the first phase of the census, the work of listing and counting of houses and updating of the National Population Register will be completed in 45 days as prescribed by the state government from April to September 2020. In the second phase, population counting work will be done from February 9 to February 28, 2021.