Door-to-door survey: Cantonment Board gets cracking today

The door-to-door survey,beginning tommorow,will conclude on June 15. PCB has already briefed the enumerators about the door-to-door survey and they will collect information about the use of the house,head of the household,total number of family members,amenities availed by the members and their assets. The enumerators have also been given the task of collecting the fingerprints and photographs of the youth above 15 years of age for issuance of multipurpose identity cards. “ The names of people who are enumerated will appear in the national population register. This is the first step towards the census that is being held next year. We have been asked by the Ministry of Home Affairs to collect data of people for the maintenance of national population registers,’’ said,Kiran Mogare,assistant in-charge officer,census,PCB. PCB officials said that the people whose identity was confirmed through the door-to-door surveys will later get the identity cards bearing not only the photographs of people but also their fingerprints.

“ Through the door-to-door surveys we are collecting the data for issuance of identity cards which will be multi-purpose. These cards can be used by the people for various activities including their bank loans and for official purposes as well,’’ added Mogare. The house-to-house survey is being conduct before the census operations which are to start in February next year.

“ For the door-to-door surveys we gave elaborate training to enumerators and surveyors comprising the education department officials as well as PCB officials. They were trained on filling up of forms for the door-to-door surveys and they will conduct the visits to enlist the people in the national population registers,’’ added a Pune Cantonment Board Census officer.