KOHIMA: Nagaland will join the nation-wide Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) to estimate caste-wise population and identify BPL households.
According to Nagaland Rural Development Department sources here on Friday, the last exercise to identify people living in poverty (BPL Census) was conducted in 2002 but had several limitations.
The Union Ministry of Rural Development is now carrying out the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 through a comprehensive door-to-door enumeration across the country.
Sources said this is for the first time that such a comprehensive exercise is being carried out for both rural and urban India. The entire exercise will be paperless, done on a hand-held electronic device (tablet PC) to reduce data entry errors and enumerator discretion.
Checks and balances will be taken care of at several levels, from the enumeration stage to public scrutiny at the village level to ensure that there is no misreporting. Almost all the information will be made available in the public domain. (UNI)
