Officially, the first recorded statistics on transgenders were collected in which census in India?

The correct answer is 2011.

Key Points

• The first recorded statistics on transgenders were collected in Census of India 2011.
• 2011 census accounts for the other-gender population in India.

• Census of India 2011 :

  • It started on April 1, 2010.
  • "Our Census, Our Future" was the 2011 census's slogan.
  • India's population, according to the 2011 Census, is estimated to be 1.21 billion.
  • According to the 2011 census, the overall literacy rate in India is 74%.
  • The population density was 382 persons per square kilometer in 2011.
  • India's sex ratio, as per the 2011 census, is 943.
  • India's child sex ratio is 918, the lowest since the country's independence, as per Census 2011.
  • This marked the commencement of the 15th Census of India and the 7th Census of Independent India (2011).
  • The Indian Census Commissioner for 2011 was C. Chandramouli.
  • The 2011 India Census was carried out in two phases:
    • House listing and Housing Census (April to September 2010).
    • Population Enumeration (9th to 28 February 2011).

Additional Information

• The 1948 Census Act governs how the census is carried out.
  • The Indian Home Minister at the time, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, spearheaded the bill for this Act.
  • The Indian Constitution's Article 246 declares the population census to be a Union subject.
  • It is mentioned in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution under serial number 69.
  • The Ministry of Home Affairs' Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner oversees the decennial census.
• The first census of India was conducted by Lord Mayo in 1872.
• The first official census was started by Lord Ripon in 1881.