By G Saravanan
Published on Feb 7,2010:
CHENNAI: With a view to have the population figures within city limits updated, Chennai Corporation is all set to begin a mega census by June.
According to sources, the exercise would involve about 8,000 field staff, who will enumerate various details from scores of houses located within the city limits. The door-to-door survey would continue for about two months and will be monitored by 1500 supervisors, sources said.
The groundwork and discussions in this regard has been completed and three exclusive training programmes would be provided to the field staff.
Apart from drafting central and state government staff for the process, there are also plans to rope in private school teachers for the effort. Each field staff would enumerate 150 households and collect basic details required for the census. The information collected from the houses would be synchronized with either the proposed national identity card or with some photographic or biometric evidences, sources said.
To get the accurate information from each points, the enumerator would depend on ward-wise digital maps.
Currently, such digital maps are readily available for 114 wards and maps for other remaining 44 divisions are being prepared.
According to sources, the digital maps are expected to play a major role in the census scheduled for 2011.
Today, the director of census operations Gopalakrishnan held a high level meeting with Corporation zonal officers at Ripon Buildings to discuss the modalities and training that has to be delivered to the field staff during the Government of India Census - 2011.
Published on Feb 7,2010:
CHENNAI: With a view to have the population figures within city limits updated, Chennai Corporation is all set to begin a mega census by June.
According to sources, the exercise would involve about 8,000 field staff, who will enumerate various details from scores of houses located within the city limits. The door-to-door survey would continue for about two months and will be monitored by 1500 supervisors, sources said.
The groundwork and discussions in this regard has been completed and three exclusive training programmes would be provided to the field staff.
Apart from drafting central and state government staff for the process, there are also plans to rope in private school teachers for the effort. Each field staff would enumerate 150 households and collect basic details required for the census. The information collected from the houses would be synchronized with either the proposed national identity card or with some photographic or biometric evidences, sources said.
To get the accurate information from each points, the enumerator would depend on ward-wise digital maps.
Currently, such digital maps are readily available for 114 wards and maps for other remaining 44 divisions are being prepared.
According to sources, the digital maps are expected to play a major role in the census scheduled for 2011.
Today, the director of census operations Gopalakrishnan held a high level meeting with Corporation zonal officers at Ripon Buildings to discuss the modalities and training that has to be delivered to the field staff during the Government of India Census - 2011.
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