CENSUS RULES, 1990
(1) These rules may be called the Census Rules, 1990.
(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
In these rules unless the context otherwise requires :- (a) Act means the Census Act, 1948 (37 of 1948);
(b) Census Commissioner means the Census Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Act;
(c) Census Schedule means the schedule containing questions referred to in sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Act;
(d) Charge Officer Additional Charge Officer and Sub Charge Officer mean the census officers appointed as such under subsection (2) of section 4 of the Act and includes Tehsildar, Mamlatdar, Block Development Officer, Chief Administrative Officer of a town, executive officer and other officers;
(e) Director of Census Operations means the Director of Census Operations appointed under sub- section (1) of section 4 of the Act
The State Governments and the Union territory Administrations in order to aid the taking of the census within their States or Union territories, may appoint officers from against the category mentioned in column 2 as census officers within their jurisdictions with such designation mentioned in column 1 of the Table below.
Designation Officers to be appointed
1 2
1. Principal Census Officer District Collectors/ Magistrates/ Commissioners of administrative heads of Corporations or any nominated Officer.
2. District/Additional district/ Deputy district/Sub-divisional district/City/Additional City Census, Officer. District Collectors/ Magistrates/ Officer assisting District Collectors/ Magistrates/ Commissioner/ District Sub-divisional Officers
The State Governments and Union may designate the Director of Census Operations, the Joint Director of Census Operations, the Deputy Director of Census Operations and Assistant Director of Census Operations as the Chief Principal Census Officer, Joint Chief Principal Census Officer, Deputy Chief Principal Census Officer and Assistant Chief Principal Census Officer of the States and the Union Territory concerned.
(1) The Census Commissioner shall,-
(a) take, aid in and supervise the taking of the census within the country;
(b) cause the Directors of Census Operations to be appointed for each State or Union territory, as the case may be;
(c) devise the census schedules or questionnaires and provide to the State Governments or Union territory Administrations for publication in their respective Gazette in order to canvass in the census;
(d) compile and provide guidance to the Directors of Census Operations of States and Union territories in taking the census and computation of results; and
(e) publish the census statistics through publications or magnetic media.
(2) The Di
The census schedules or questionnaires shall be notified by the State Government through Official Gazette under sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Act.
1[Provided that the schedules or questionnaires canvassed in relation to conduct of pre-test, pilot studies, post enumeration check and evaluation studies or statistical surveys may not be notified in the Official Gazette.]
The Central Government may by a notification published in the Official Gazette declare the date for the commencement of the census and the period during which the houselisting operations and population census shall take place.
An order of requisition under section 7A, shall be served -
(a) where the person to whom such order is addressed is a corporation or firm - in the manner provided for the service of summons in rule 2 of order XXIX or rule 3 of order XXX, as the case may be, in the first Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act V of 1908); and
(b) where the person to whom such order is addressed is an individual -
(i) personally by delivering or tendering the order, or
(ii) by registered post, or
(iii) if the person cannot be found, by leaving an authentic copy of the order with any adult member of his family or by affixing such copy to some conspicuous part of the premises in which he is known to have last resid
The time within which any interested person, who is aggrieved by the amount of compensation determined under section 7B may make an application for referring the matter to arbitration shall be fourteen days from the date of determination of the amount of such compensation or where the amount of such compensation has been determined in the absence of the person interested or, as the case may be, the owner, fourteen days from the date on which the intimation of such determination is sent to that person or owner.
The Census Commissioner shall decide the items on which data may be released.
The State Governments and the Union territory Administrations shall, -
(i) republish the intention of taking a census notified by the Central Government in their State or Union territory Gazettes;
(ia) republish the census schedules and questionnaires notified by the Central Government in their States or Union Territory Gazettes.
(ii) publish a notification directing the public to cooperate in furnishing accurate and unambigous information in respect of the questions that may be put to them through census alongwith an extract of penalties prescribed under section 11 of the Act;
(iii) publish in the gazette the reference date for the census and the period during which houselisting operations and population census will take place under section 3 of th
After the completion of the taking of the census the canvassed census schedules shall be kept in the office of the Director of Census Operations or at such other place the Director of Census Operations may direct for processing the data collected.
The canvassed schedules shall after processing is over be preserved at the office of the Director of Census Operations or at such other place the Director of Census Operations may direct.
The schedules and other connected papers shall be disposed of totally or in part by the Director of Census Operations a year before the next census in accordance with the general or special directions as may be given by the Census Commissioner in this behalf.
The Census Commissioner and the Director of Census Operations may issue from time to time general or special instructions or such directions, to the Principal Census Officers and other census officers appointed under the Act, as may be necessary for the efficient conduct and timely completion of the census operations.
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