Sailesh was appointed as the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India
Q. Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner falls under aegis of -- Published on 11 Jan 16a. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
b. Ministry of Human Resource Development
c. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
d. Ministry of Home
ANSWER: Ministry of Home
- The responsibility of conducting the decennial Census rests with the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India under Ministry of Home Affairs.
- The Census Organisation was set up on an ad-hoc basis for each Census till the 1951 Census.
- The Census Act was enacted in 1948 to provide for the scheme of conducting population census with duties and responsibilities of census officers.
- The Government of India decided in May 1949 to initiate steps for developing systematic collection of statistics on the size of population, its growth, etc. and established an organisation in the Ministry of Home Affairs under Registrar General and ex-Officio Census Commissioner, India.
- This organisation was made responsible for generating data on population statistics including Vital Statistics and Census.
- This office was also entrusted with the responsibility of implementation of Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 in the country.
- Senior IAS officer Sailesh was appointed as the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, replacing C Chandramouli.
