First Time Ever Information on Economic Census is Collected Under Digital India Programme in DK

First Time Ever Information on Economic Census is Collected Under Digital India Programme in DK

January 2: The economic census has been launched in Dakshina Kannada district on Wednesday. Information will be collected from organised and unorganised economic sectors for the next three months.
Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh launched the census in her office and she said that the economic census is conducted once in five years. The information is collected through a mobile app under Digital India programme for the first time, she added.

As per the sixth census of 2012-13, there are 2,25,639 business units in the district. Of these, 60,239 are commercial business; 20,178 business units do not have any buildings while 1,45,222 units function within the buildings.  The DC also clarified that there is no connection between the economic census and the CAA and the NRC.
The officials from the Department of Industry, Commercial Tax and the deputy registrar of cooperative societies and the Labour Department should ensure that entrepreneurs and industrial units cooperate with the enumerators. She had directed village accountants and chief officers and other officials in urban areas to help the enumerators in identifying the blocks of business and trading activities.