The deadline to freeze administrative boundaries of districts, tehsils, cities, municipal our bodies amongst others ended on June 30, 2024. It had not been prolonged until July 1, Monday.
A senior authorities official advised The Hindu {that a} “decision is yet to be taken and discussions are being held” on the difficulty.
The anomaly has a direct influence on the dates of the following Census train that was final held in 2011. The deadline has been prolonged 9 instances since December 2020. A former Census official mentioned an order for a “post-facto” extension is also issued on a later date but when it was not prolonged it meant doorways have been open for the following Census train within the subsequent three-six months.
The Janata Dal (United), a key ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion, has demanded caste census.
On June 6, senior JD(U) chief Ok.C Tyagi advised The Hindu, “A caste census is being demanded by all. Bihar has paved the way for it. Even the Prime Minister did not oppose the caste census, so we will pursue it.”
The order on December 30, 2023 which prolonged the freezing of administrative boundaries by State governments until June 30, 2024 successfully pushed the decennial census train at the least until October 1 because it often takes three months to arrange the enumerators for the duty.
Ladies’s quota
The implementation of the girls’s reservation Act that was handed in a particular session of the Parliament final 12 months, which reserves 33% seats in Parliament and State Assemblies for ladies, depends on the conduct of the following Census.
In line with the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam,’ one-third reservation of seats for ladies within the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies shall come into impact after an train of delimitation is undertaken based mostly on the related figures of the primary Census recorded after the Act has commenced.
Union House Minister Amit Shah had knowledgeable the Lok Sabha final 12 months that Census and delimitation of seats shall be performed after the overall elections however didn’t specify the 12 months.
“States would also require 5-6 months to prepare the apparatus. Since it will be a digital census, training will have to be given afresh for the entire process. If dates for freezing of administrative boundaries are not extended, the first phase of Census and an update of the National Population Register (NPR) can be done in 2025,” mentioned the previous Census official.
