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After bagging projects like Aadhaar, Ayushman Bharat, and Ujjwala, the Common Service Centres (CSCs) under the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) will be conducting Census, Economic Survey and information dissemination.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) and CSC e-Governance Services India was signed on Thursday, sources said.
Dinesh Tyagi, Chief Executive at CSC, told BusinessLine, “Around 12 lakh enumerators will be involved in conducting the Survey and they will be trained from February. We have developed a mobile app which will identify the panchayats, location and submit the form automatically to our systems once the survey is done by the invigilator.”
He said most of these 12 lakh people will be part of the three-lakh CSCs across the country and some will be hired from third parties. As they will be trained and certified, they can be utilised in many other surveys done from time to time by the government. In a way the government will be creating around 12-lakh employees for this purpose, Tyagi said.
The survey will start from April and this will be the first time that an agency like CSC will be utilised and also filling up the details digitally. This will be the seventh Economic Survey by the government, and the six surveys before this were all physically done.
Roles of CSC
Some of the roles of the CSC will be to assist MOSPI by providing access to CSCs network in all States/ Union Territories; CSC will develop online mechanism to perform census and surveys at ground level; and CSCs will perform the Census and Surveys at ground under the supervision of MoSPl and all State governments.
To spread awareness among field enumerators, CSC will design the marketing collaterals for MoSPI. Marketing collaterals will help village level entrepreneurs to understand the concept of MOSPI of filling up the online Census and Surveys.
“This MoU will come into force on the effective date and will be valid for a period of three years from the effective date. It may be terminated by either party by giving 30 days written notice to the other party. This MoU may be renewed from time to time, as mutually agreed, in writing, by both the parties,” the agreement between the two agencies said.
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