Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 31 2010:
Under the overall supervision of Registrar General and Census Commission, Ministry of Home Affairs, the census exercise, 2011 and preparation of national Population Registrar (NPR) would commence from tomorrow in the State.
The exercise to be conducted in two phases.
The first phase would be conducted from June 1 to July 25
during which collecting Census information and preparation of NPR would be carried out.
In the second phase which would be carried out from February 9, 2011 to March 30, population enumeration would be done.
In the first phase of the exercise in Manipur, in all 5664 enumerators and 1021 supervisors would be deployed and respective Deputy Commissioners would monitor the exercise as Principal Census Officers.
Census exercise is being carried out in India since 1872.So the census 2011 is the 15th such exercise in India and it is the 7th since attainment of India's independence.