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♦ This is an initiative of the Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner,India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
♦ ORG & CCI has 35 offices all over India. Besides the Head Office at New Delhi and the Language Division at Kolkata, 33 offices are located in States/UT and are known as Directorate of Census
Operations (DCOs). The office is responsible for conduction of decennial population census in India under the Census Act, 1948
♦ Census data is the only authenticated source that provides both macro and micro level data for the entire country, enabling its use and analysis by the government, academicians, and researchers.
♦ The Directorate has proposed to establish a dedicated research workstations in the Universities/Institutions in Maharashtra to provide access to anonymized census microdata for students,
researchers in a protected environment to promote the research.
♦ Shivaji University, Kolhapur has accepted this proposal and established a workstation in the Department of Statistics from University funds.
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