• As all previous censuses in India have been paper-based. A mobile app will be used in Census
2021. It will be a transformation from paper census to digital census.
• The 2021 census is the 16th Indian census.
• The government was set to spend `12,000 crore on the 2021 Census as well as for the preparation of the National Population Register (NPR).
• This mammoth nationwide exercise will be carried out in 16 languages.
• The census will have its reference date as March 1, 2021, but for snow-bound Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand it will be October 1, 2020.
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