Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah laid the Foundation Stone for construction of a new building of the Registrar General of India (RGI) that conducts the census in New Delhi.
It is named as Janganana Bhawan.
2021 census exercise would be carried out digitally.
₹12,000 crores would be spent on preparation of the National Population Register (NPR) and census.
About
NPR links biometric and demographic details of any ordinary resident, thus making it a comprehensive database of residents.
An ordinary resident is defined as a person
who has resided in a local area for the past six months or more or
a person who intends to reside in that area for the next six months or more.
NPR exercise is different from the census and is not linked to the National Register of Citizens (NRC).