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Download Solution PDFWhat was the slogan of the 2011 Census of India?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Our Census - Our Future.
Key PointsCensus of India 2011
- It started on April 1, 2010.
- "Our Census, Our Future" was the 2011 census's slogan.
- India's population, according to the 2011 Census, is estimated to be 1.21 billion.
- This marked the commencement of the 15th Census of India and the 7th Census of Independent India (2011).
- The Indian Census Commissioner for 2011 was C. Chandramouli.
- The 2011 India Census was carried out in two phases:
- House listing and Housing Census (April to September 2010).
- Population Enumeration (9th to 28 February 2011).
Additional Information
- The 1948 Census Act governs how the census is carried out.
- The Indian Home Minister at the time, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, spearheaded the bill for this Act.
- The Indian Constitution's Article 246 declares the population census to be a Union subject.
- It is mentioned in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution under serial number 69.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs' Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner oversees the decennial census.
- According to the 2011 census, the overall literacy rate in India is 74%.
- The population density was 382 persons per square kilometer in 2011.
- India's sex ratio, as per the 2011 census, is 943.
- India's child sex ratio is 918, the lowest since the country's independence, as per Census 2011.
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