Bihar is conducting Caste Census from April 15 and it has planned to make it paperless. Perhaps it wi;; be the first state to use such methodology. It also has plans to use Photography and Video-graphy of the entire census.
Rural Development Minister Nitish Mishra said Bihar will be the first state to employ such technology. Mishra told IANS that the census will be a paperless exercise as it will be done on hand-held electronic devices developed by the Bharat Electronic Development Corp. It will drastically reduce data entry errors and enumerator discretion. The caste census is being conducted after eight decades. In the general census undertaken every 10 years, only religious groups as well as Dalits and tribals are counted.