FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY CENSUS OF INDIA 1981 SERIES 28 DELHI PART I-A ADMINISTRATION REPORT-ENUMERATION v. K~ BHALLA Of the Indian Administrative Serviee Director of Census Operations. Delhi CENSUS OF INDIA 1981 SERIES 2S--DELHl List of Publications to be released 1. Part I-A Administration Report-Enumeration 2. Part I-B • • Administration Report-Tabulation ~~ Part II-A General Population Tables .. -~- 4. llltrt II-B Primary Census Abstract 5. PartlHI A & B General Economic Tables 6. Part 1tv A. B & C . Social & Cultural Tables 7. Part VA & B • Migration Tables 8. P~rt VI A & B Fertility Tables ,£ 9. (part VII Tables on Houses and Disabled Population 10.. Part VIII A, B & C Household Tables ./ 11. Part I::iIC Special Tables on Scheduled Castes 12. Part X B Survey Report on Selected Towns 13. Part X C Survey Report on Selected Villases 14. Part XI. • Ethnographic Notes and Special Studies on Scheduled Castes 15. Part XII Census Atlas 16. Par. XIII A & B . District Census Handbook (i) CONTENTS pages Chapter-I Introduction Chapter-II Preparatory Steps 2 Chapter-III Preparations for the Census 7 .\ Ch'lpter-IV Building up of the Organisation 14 Chapter--V Touring and Training Programmes 17 Chapter--VI Census Schedules-Translation, Printing and Distribution 19 Ch'lpter--VII Procurement ~f Maps 23 Chapter- -VIII Preparation of Rural and Urban Frame 24 Chapter- ~IXl Enumeration Agency 32 Ch'lpter- -X Houselisting Operations 34 I Ch:lpter-XI Enumeration 37 Ch:lpter-XII Directives issued by the State Govt. 51 Ch:lpter-XIII General 52 Chapter-XIV Post Enumeration Check 59 Chapter-XV Conclusions and Acknowledgements 60 Appen,dix-I Circ~ars issued by the Registrar General's Office • 6i - Appendix-II Circulars issued by the Directorate of Census Operations, Delhi 279 Appendix-III Various Forms and Schedules used at the time of Houselisting Operations and Actual Count 327 Appendix-IV Notifications issued at the time of 1981 Census 339 Appendix-V Miscellaneous Circulars and Pre-test Forms 369 (iii) PREFACE Of all the reports brought out by the Census Organisation, the Administration Report is the only one such publication which is not meant for general use. It is meant for official use only. The Report is intended to be a guide to the successor at the following Census. The main aim of this Report is to provide at one place as detailed an account as possible of the organi. sation of the Census in the Union ierritory, in all its facets. Here an attempt has been made .to provide a balanced account of what has been done or could be done in future towards improving the entire Census Operations. For a visual picture, some photographs relating to the operations in typical situations such as enumeration of houseless persons have been induded in the report. Delhi with a fast growing population, slums, .katras and unauthorised colonies poses many problems for a Census taker. The report presents experiences of all of my colleagues in the Census and the various organi­ sational problems and how we solved them. It is my earnest hope that my successor. in 1991 will find the report quite helpful. In pre­ paring this report I have been greatly assis.ted by S/Shri S. S. S. laiswal and M. L. Sharma, Dy. Director and Asstt. Director, respectively, and they both deserve my grateful thanks. V.K. BHALLA EJir(#~tor of C~TJ$M3 1)!"tltio1U, l)d/li DELHI Dated June 30th, 1983 ('I) CHAPTER ] -INTRODUCTION It is 'the gene'ral practice that a Direc!or of Census traI1spo)'t etc., with the help of my conea~es ~b Operations, resumes his office at least two or three Delhi Administration where I -had worketl earhe1' fat years oefore the actual conduct. of the decennial Cen­ a number of years. I wa.a able to, .solve these" pta. sus. Shri V. V. Mongia joined as Director on 23rd blems. I. hbwever. feel that my app01lltme11t v.-U v~f')' July. 1979 ·and continued with his -assignment upto much delayed. For the smooth running of- such 'a 18th September, 1979, when he joined the Ministry gigantic operation, it 'Would appear essential that pf Agriculture. This switch-over necessitated fresh the Directors in the Census Offices shbuld be in efforts on the pa'!t of the Registrar General. India. to position at least a minimum of two years in ac.1:'Ianre se~ct a new incumbent for the job. I was in N. E. of the actual conduct of the Census. sector and was posted as Deputy Commissioner, Dist. East Kameng in Arunachal Pradesh when 1 came Besides attending to the preliminaries for the COD- to know about my appointment as the Director of -.dug: -of the Houselisting Operations and the Census Census Operations, Delhi. 1 co~ld not be released I had to make sure, that the backlog of 1971 Censu~ by the Qovernment of Arunachal Pradesh earlier was also cleared. There we.re a few pUblications R_er­ than third' week of June, 1980. Thus, during the in­ taining to 1971 Census which had not seen the light tervening period when Shri Mongia left and r joined. of the day even till 1980 when I joined. These were the Census Office functioned without a Director. Part I-B General Report, Part II-B General EconO­ mic Tables, Part II-CCii) Social and Cultural Tables Althabgh like my predecessor I had the advantage and the Census Atlas for 1971. With personal.efforts of succeeding to a well .. set organisation with a suffi­ I was able to see that Part I-B was immediartely out. cient flUmber of experienced hands details of which Part lI-C (ii) came out in December. 1980 and Part are given in the chapter on 'Building up of' the Or­ U-B in July, 1981. Ironically, the Census Atlas of ganisation', I had to cover a distance to catch up with 1971 could be brought out in a pr-inted form o~ly my -'other colleagues in the different States & Union on 10th December. 1981 i.e .• after a lapse of full de­ Tenitories> in the' country. Most of census Conferen­ cade. Publications at the Government press take ces involving the Data Users and the Directors of considerable time. Even when these' are assigned to Census Operations had already been held by then the private presses sometime matters get delayed. Tho and my immediate anxiety was to ensure the smooth Census data loses the utility if they are not brought conduct of the Houselisting Operations which is a out in a printed form in time and here it is that a per­ preliminary step towards the actual Count. I am one sonal interest at the senior level is most essential. of those who believe in the dictum that if there is a Another aspect which is of vital importance for the will to do a-job there is nothing which can stop one Director of Census is the immediate rapport with the. accomplishing the same. I had good subordinates and various officers of the local administration and the a :very considerate Head viz., Shri P. Padmanabha local bodies and I lost no time in moving towards this to whom I could look. for guidance in time of need. direction. These contact~ proved very helpful in the solution of various difficulties which I had ,to face at Census is a work of national importance and I later stages. In the following chapters are given some felt privileged to have been asked to take up this of the various facets of the Census activity and the work. Although there were a number of probleII!s arratigem~nts made in regard to these from time to like accommodation for office. availability of proper time. 1 1-1 CensusjDelhij84 CHAPTER II- INITIAL PREPARATORY MEASURES Organisation of Census is a mammoth operation. The· main aim oE the Census is to enumerate This requires not only a good deal of personal ini­ as on the Census date all the individuals in the coun­ tiative by the Director of Census Operations, but also try. These individuals live in some area or the other the use of ingenuity and skill in winning the confid­ either by themselves or in clusters. In order to en· epee and co-operation of the State Government offi­ sure that all the individuals are covered at the time cjals' as well as Local Bodies throughout a State/ of the Census. it becomes absolutely necessary to pre­ Union Territory, through whom these operations pare a list of all the areas which comprise a parti­ aTe carried out. The Director of CensuS Operations cular State/Union Territory. For administrative has no administrative control over these functiona­ purposes, each State/Union Territory is divided into ries and it is only by commanding their goodwill that districts, each district into tehsils/talukasjpolice he can get the best out of them. At the apex in the stations/development blocks and below this level. Census Organisation, the Registrar General, India is there are villages and towns. Since several jurisdic­ the guiding soul behind all th~se operations. After tional changes take place from time to time, it is the Directors of Census Operations get settled in necessary that before the actual organisational work their positions and familiarise themselves with the for the Census is taken up. one should take stock of work they are expected to' do, the Registrar General all such changes and up-date one's frame, This re~ from time to time keeps on writing to th~m about quires obtaining lists of districts, tchsils etc., and the various steps to be -taken in regard to the organi­ comparing the jurisdictional changes with the previ­ OliS Census, Similarly, lists of villages/towns (Ire also sation of the Census, A team of studIous staff-members of Census Operations & other Officers engaJcd on census tak'ng 2 required.