Union Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah on Monday has proposed idea of one multi-purpose identity card for all citizens of India. According to him, card will have all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, driving licence, and bank accounts. "We can have just one card for all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, bank account, driving licence, voter card. This is a potential," said Union Home Minister. Speaking at an event in Delhi during inauguration of Janganana (Census) Bhawan, Shah also revealed that Census 2021 data will be collected through a mobile application. According to Home Ministry, re should also be a system that when a person dies, information is updated in population data automatically.

Laying foundation stone of 'Janganana Bhawan'

While laying foundation stone of Janganana Bhawan, Home Minister Amit Shah pressed on fact that every person in India should kw importance and dimensions of Janganana (Census). Census 2021 will be a digital census, stated Shah. This will be for first time that census data is collected through a digital platform. Pointing out  difference of census calculations of census 2011, he said, " Indian terrain is 2.4% of total world area and if population is taken into account, we are 17.5% of entire world’s population." He furr added that difference is an eye-opener in itself. 

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Census 2021

According to BJP President, government will be spending Rs. 12,000 crore on Census and National Population Register (NPR). Earlier in March this year, government had anunced that Census 2021 will be conducted on March 1 in two phases. For Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, reference date would be October 21. Furr, according to reports, a pre-test of Census 2021 will begin on August 12. 

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