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Select the correct statement regarding the Census of India.
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- 1The responsibility of conducting the decadal Census rests with the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.✓
- 2The Census Act was enacted in the year 1950 to provide a plan for conducting the population census along with the duties and responsibilities of census officers.
- 3The Indian Census is the only source of various statistical information on the socio-economic characteristics of the people of India.
- 4The first regular synchronous Census was conducted in different parts of India in 1870.
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The responsibility of conducting the decadal Census rests with the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
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