Union Budget 2025: Census, NPR unlikely in 2025 too as only ₹574 crore allocated
The Hindu
Union Cabinet approves census of India 2021 and NPR update, but budget cuts hint at possible delay until 2025.
If budgetary proposals are anything to go by, the decadal census is unlikely to be carried out in 2025 as well with a meagre ₹574.80 crore allocated for the exercise in the Budget presented on Saturday (February 1, 2025).
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A meeting of the Union Cabinet on December 24, 2019, approved the proposal for conducting a census of India 2021 at a cost of ₹8,754.23 crore and updating the National Population Register (NPR) at ₹3,941.35 crore.
The house listing phase of the census and the exercise to update the NPR were scheduled to be carried out across the country from April 1 to September 30, 2020 but were postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The census operation continues to be on hold and the government has not yet announced the new schedule.
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The Budget 2025-26, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, allocated ₹574.80 crore for Census, Surveys and Statistics/Registrar General of India (RGI), a significant reduction from the Budget 2021-22 when ₹3,768 crore was allocated, and an indication the decadal exercise may not be carried out even after this significant delay.
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