About Digital census 2021-2

•The government was set to spend `12,000 crore on the 2021 Census as well as for the preparation of the National Population Register (NPR).
•This mammoth nationwide exercise will be carried out in 16 languages.
•The census will have its reference date as March 1, 2021, but for snow-bound Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand it will be October 1, 2020.