{"id":4529,"date":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/09\/2004-09-09-india-government-stops-sale-of-census\/"},"modified":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-09-india-government-stops-sale-of-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/09\/2004-09-09-india-government-stops-sale-of-census\/","title":{"rendered":"India Government Stops Sale of Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/203.200.89.17\/indexn12.asp?main_variable=NATION&#038;file_name=nt1%2Etxt&#038;counter_img=1\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>DELHI, INDIA, September 8, 2004: Bogged down by the controversy over the accuracy of its figure on Muslim population growth rate to the tune of 36 per cent, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG&#038;CCI) on Wednesday temporarily stopped the sale of its reports on the Census 2001, on Religion. Deputy Registrar General RG Mitra on Wednesday told The Pioneer that the sale of the report has been stopped just for a day or two to make a small amendment in the analytical and introductory part of the report. Mr. Mitra added that the analytical part of the report had inadvertently overlooked the fact that the census had not been carried out in Assam in 1981 and in Jammu and Kashmir in 1991. If this factor is taken into consideration, the actual percentage of Muslim population growth rate can come down significantly. The officials at the RG&#038;CCI admit that if the Jammu and Kashmir population was excluded from the current census also, the growth rate for Muslims would have been 29.3 per cent and for Hindus 19.9 per cent. But the fact remains that the Muslims would still have got the distinction of being the fastest growing community with their growth rate still being higher than the national average of roughly 22.7 per cent. Meanwhile, the National Commission for Minorities on Wednesday constituted a four-member cell to examine the Census 2001 Report on Religion and identify various community-specific problems in various states and recommend corrective measures for them.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceDELHI, INDIA, September 8, 2004: Bogged down by the controversy over the accuracy of its figure on Muslim population growth,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}