Question
Download Solution PDFIn India census is held regularly every ______ year.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is10th.
Key Points
- Census is conducted under the provisions of the Census Act, 1948, as per the Constitution of India, and this data is collected every 10 years.
- All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act.
- The Census is conducted once every ten years.
- The 2011 Census is the 7th Census in Independent India.
- The decennial Census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011.
- The first complete census was taken in 1881.
- British Viceroy Lord Mayo started the concept of the census in 1872.
- Post-1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
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