Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)
Mangaluru, Apr 12: The Census Awareness Committee has addressed a letter, a copy of which is made available to the media regardingloopholes in collection of Census data.
They said that they have visited houses, conducted information workshops and training camps with regard to collection of census data being collected from April 12.
“However officials who came to Irwathur and Parlia in B Mooda grama of Bantwal taluk, Inoli in Mangaluru, Varkadi in Belthangadi taluk, Moodbidri and other places have filled form 3 in pencil, taken signature on blank forms and handed over xerox copies asking the people to fill them up saying that they will fill the forms later.They have also left those who are abroad from the census. They have left the forms in some shops asking the shopkeepers to get the forms filled by the customers saying that they will be collecting them later. When asked, the officials have given evasive replies saying that they do not have proper information”, they wrote.
They have urged the Deputy Commissioner to ask the concerned officials to fill the form 3 without any mistakes. The committee has offered to send their workers along with the census staff if needed so that the census may be complete.