In India census is held regularly every ______ year.

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SSC CGL 2022 Tier-I Official Paper (Held On : 02 Dec 2022 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is10th.

Key Points

Census is conducted under the provisions of the Census Act, 1948, as per the Constitution of India, and this data is collected every 10 years.
All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act.
The Census is conducted once every ten years.
The 2011 Census is the 7th Census in Independent India.
The decennial Census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011.
The first complete census was taken in 1881.
British Viceroy Lord Mayo started the concept of the census in 1872.
Post-1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.