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Union Budget 2021: FM Confirms 2021 Census Will be First Digital Census in India
The Budget was presented on a tablet instead of the Bahi Khaata used last year. (Image Credit: Twitter/ ANI)
The announcement falls in line with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in 2019 about how the 2021 national census is planned to be held digitally.
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The 2021 national census of India will be held digitally, confirmed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her Union Budget 2021 speech. Touching upon the topic, Sitharaman confirmed that the upcoming census of India would become the very first one in the history of India to be held digitally, marking India’s transit towards digitising government and public services, and continue transiting towards paperless operation systems. The FM’s statement falls in line with a previous statement given by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2019.
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The big-ticket project is currently run by
Infosys Ltd. and is expected to come up for renewal in July 2021. It was handed to Infosys from TCS in 2013. The second phase of MCA 21 had a total project outlay of Rs 357.81 crore.
With new digital capabilities to be added, the next version of the marque project is expected to garner more interest from foreign as well as Indian tech majors.
Sitharaman also said that the next general census in the country will be the first digital. This will mean a boost in business for both hardware companies, which will likely see a surge in sales of laptops, tablets, smartphones and printers, as well as software companies that will run and build the technology-enabled backend.