Kolkata: Suvendu: Census Starts In WB From Aug, Will End In Feb

KOLKATA: The Census operation will start from August 1 in West Bengal. It will be held in two phases till the end of February next year. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced this during the inauguration of Principal Census Officers’ Conference at the state secretariat Nabanna on Friday.

Kolkata: Suvendu: Census Starts In WB From Aug, Will End In Feb. KOLKATA: The Census operation will start from August 1 in West Bengal. It will be held in two phases till the end of February next year. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced this during the inauguration of Principal Census Officers’ Conference at the state secretariat Nabanna on Friday. He also blamed the previous government of Trinamul Congress for almost a year-long delay behind the launch of the exercise and underlined the “constitutional obligation” of the drive-in wake of a "demographic change" and the 600 km-long unfenced India-Bangladesh border in the state. Mr Adhikari pointed out that while the Centre issued the notification for Census operations on June 16 last year, the TMC government did not implement it here to play politics. He called it ‘unfortunate.’ Aft...