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Andhra Pradesh Director of Census Operations and Director of Citizen Registrations, J. Nivas, has assured citizens that their idiosyncratic accusation would stay afloat protected, and said the ongoing Census 2027 was giving the highest precedence to information information and confidentiality.
In an enactment with The Hindu, Mr. Nivas said each accusation collected during the Census was safeguarded nether the Census Act, 1948, peculiarly Section 15, which ensures that idiosyncratic information cannot beryllium shared nether the Right to Information (RTI) Act, utilized arsenic grounds successful courts, oregon disclosed to immoderate institution. “People tin enactment without fear. The information is meant lone for statistical purposes and nationalist planning,” helium said.
Addressing concerns expressed by the public, Mr. Nivas said the Census did not cod delicate idiosyncratic details specified arsenic slope relationship numbers, Aadhaar information, income oregon onshore ownership records. He said the workout was not linked to scrutiny oregon removal of payment benefits. “The information is utilized lone to plan and amended schemes related to housing, electricity, sanitation and different indispensable services,” helium said, adding that modern integer systems further enhanced information done OTP-based authentication, monitored access, and unafraid information transportation without retention connected mobile devices.
The Director said Census 2027 would beryllium conducted successful 2 phases. The archetypal phase, House Listing and Housing Census, has been nether mode successful the State, opening connected May 1, 2026, for 30 days, with a 15-day self-enumeration model preceding it. The accusation entered done self-enumeration is being verified and accepted by the enumerators successful these 30 days. This signifier volition seizure details astir lodging conditions, amenities and household assets, and volition laic the groundwork for the adjacent stage. The 2nd phase, Population Enumeration, is scheduled for February 2027 and volition cod elaborate demographic, socio-economic, cultural, migration and fertility data.
Mr. Nivas said the Census would beryllium the largest specified workout successful the world, and would diagnostic mobile-based information collection, geo-referenced mapping, and adjacent real-time monitoring done the Census Management and Monitoring System. Self-enumeration volition let citizens to participate their ain details, reducing the workload and improving accuracy, with enumerators verifying the accusation during visits.
The Director said measures had been enactment successful spot to debar duplication by counting individuals astatine their accustomed spot of residence based connected a continuous-stay criterion. He said peculiar efforts would beryllium made to screen the homeless, tribal populations and transgender communities done targeted plans.
Mr. Nivas said the Census was a planetary exemplary for large-scale information collection, and nationalist practice was essential. “Accurate accusation from each household volition assistance the authorities program efficaciously and guarantee that improvement benefits scope each sections of society,” helium said.
