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No cyber attack or hacking of census data: Ajay Kumar Mishra informs LS

Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home, Ajay Kumar Mishra informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that no cyber attack or data hacking incident has been observed in the Data Centre or the Disaster Recovery Sites of the Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner of the country.He also informed that multi-layered security approaches have been adopted for the security of census data."No cyberattack or data hacking incident has been observed in the Data Centre or its Disaster Recovery Sites of the Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Multi-layered security approach has been adopted for security and safety of census data," the MoS said in the Lower House.Earlier on December 13, Ajay Kumar Mishra informed the Lok Sabha that the number of cyber crime incidents, including frauds, was on the rise, with the enhanced use of cyberspace.The MoS shared the input in a written reply to a query of fellow Lower House members Nishikant Dubey, Jual Oram and Aparupa Poddar.

No cyber attack on census data centre, optimum security in place, says govt

A multi-layered security approach has been adopted for the safety of census data and there has been no cyber attack or data hacking incident in the system, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said Tuesday. He said the intent of the government for conducting Census 2021 was notified in the Gazette of India on March 28, 2019, but due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the census and related field activities have been postponed until further orders. "Multiple layered security approach has been adopted for security and safety of census data. Data is encrypted at the data collection device, during the transmission and at servers and storage. "Advisories from National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) and Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) are implemented to make the data centres secure," Rai said in Lok Sabha. Replying to another question, the minister said, "No cyber attack or data hacking incident has been observed in the d

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Crucial demographic exercise cannot wait for next elections

Podcast: How will the delay in conducting a Census affect India?

First, the pandemic came in the way of the Census, and now the govt is unlikely to go ahead with this massive exercise before the 2024 general elections. What are the implications of this delay?

Podcast: Census delayed, milk prices, oil prices in 2023, network splicing

How will the delay in conducting a Census affect India? What's behind the rise in milk prices across the country? What will guide oil prices in 2023? What is network slicing?

Centre unlikely to conduct Census before Lok Sabha elections 2024

The gigantic exercise involves training 3 million enumerators who would visit houses in two phases to collect the data

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Govt declares census, NPR database as critical information infrastructure

The government has declared as critical information infrastructure certain databases related to the Census and the National Population Register (NPR). In a notification, the Union home ministry said the decision has been taken after exercising the powers conferred to it under the Information Technology Act, 2000, (Amended 2008). The central government declares the computer resources relating to Census Monitoring and Management System, Self Enumeration and Civil Registration System (CRS) web portals, mobile applications for House Listing, Population Enumeration and National Population Register updation being critical information infrastructure (CII) of the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, it said. Linked databases, including the NPR database, Census database and CRS database, computer resources setup and installed at National Data Centre, Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Delhi, and Disaster Recovery Site and Data Centres at ...

Croatia's population falls by almost 10% in a decade: 2021 Census

Croatia's population has decreased by 413,056 persons or 9.64 per cent over the past decade, the final results of the country's 2021 census revealed

Monsoon session: No plans to bring Census into concurrent list, says govt

The government has no plans to bring the census into the concurrent list and allow state governments to conduct the census, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday

Monsoon session: No plan to release 2011 caste census data, says govt

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said that the central government has not enumerated caste-wise population other than SCs and STs in census since Independence.

Caste-based census findings should be made public, says Prashant Kishor

Election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor said the findings of the survey must be made public and the data should be used for formulating policies to help the state's downtrodden sections

Nitish says Bihar will do caste based census after centre's 'inability'

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted that "it will not take long" before work began on a state-level caste-based census, which he has agreed to after inability expressed by the Centre

Next census in e-mode, digitalization to ensure better enumeration: Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted with digitalisation of the census process in the country, a 100 percent perfect' enumeration can be expected in the next counting exercise

People can self enumerate in the next census: Govt tells Lok Sabha

The upcoming census will be digital for the first time and people will have the option of self enumeration, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday

BS Number Wise: The late and lagging government annual reports

Just over half the ministries, departments and autonomous bodies released these crucial documents for 2020-21

Every Indian legally bound to reply census queries: Govt tells Lok Sabha

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the state governments appoint census officers to take or aid in or supervise the census exercise under the provisions of the Census Act 1948

Timeline for Census

Pandemic postponement cannot last forever

MHA appoints 10 directors of Census operations, allows self-enumeration

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday appointed 10 'Directors of Census Operations' in various states, including Uttar Pradesh.

Citizens to be allowed to self-enumerate online in upcoming census

The citizens of the country, if they wish, will be able to self-enumerate online in the upcoming census as the government has amended the rules.