The federal government has declared as essential data infrastructure sure databases associated to the Census and the Nationwide Inhabitants Register (NPR).
In a notification, the Union dwelling ministry mentioned the choice has been taken after exercising the powers conferred to it beneath the Data Know-how Act, 2000, (Amended 2008).
The central authorities declares the pc sources regarding Census Monitoring and Administration System, Self Enumeration and Civil Registration System (CRS) net portals, cell functions for Home Itemizing, Inhabitants Enumeration and Nationwide Inhabitants Register updation being essential data infrastructure (CII) of the Workplace of the Registrar Common and Census Commissioner, India, it mentioned.
Linked databases, together with the NPR database, Census database and CRS database, laptop sources setup and put in at Nationwide Information Centre, Workplace of the Registrar Common and Census Commissioner, Delhi, and Catastrophe Restoration Website and Information Centres at Bengaluru and Lucknow have additionally declared being CII, based on the notification.
The pc sources of all related dependencies of the aforementioned entities have additionally been declared as “protected methods” beneath the regulation. The notification got here into speedy impact.
The Census 2021 has been saved on maintain because of the COVID-19 pandemic and it might begin within the close to future.