The central government has issued a new circular for the upcoming census, directing to update urban agglomerations. This exercise to be conducted in the 2027 census is going to change the official urban map of India.
The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India has sent a set of proformas to all the states and union territories to update the structure of urban agglomerations for the upcoming Census 2027. This proforma, released by the office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan on August 22, is designed to officially show how cities have expanded, merged or re-divided since the 2011 census.
The new circular directives ask states to list Census 2011 urban agglomerations that will continue in Census 2027 without any territorial changes after Census 2011. Apart from this, it has also been asked to propose the deletion of Census 2011 urban agglomerations for Census 2027. The circular also asks for details of such villages, cities, suburbs, towns that have been merged with any unit of urban agglomeration after Census 2011.
Center sent five proformas
According to a report by News18, the documents sent by the Centre contain 5 proformas that states and union territories will have to fill. The purpose of these proformas is to outline and list the changes in the status of urban areas between 2011 and 2027. Each proforma also seeks information on identifiers and population as per the 2011 census, Metadata and Data Standard (MDDS) code, area in square kilometres, and relevant government notifications or orders in cases of mergers or jurisdictional changes.
If there is no change, cities will remain the same
According to the circular, cities whose geographical area has not changed since the 2011 census will continue to be incorporated as is but where municipal limits have expanded or adjoining towns and villages have been urbanised and merged into cities, such mergers will be recorded in the respective urban agglomerations (UA) with notification numbers and dates.
The way will be open for new groups
Conversely, any 2011 UA that no longer meets the criteria, or that has been restructured, may be proposed for deletion. Finally, these forms open a way to recognise entirely new clusters that have emerged over the past decade and a half such as manufacturing corridors, IT clusters and logistics hubs, which have rapidly driven the creation and development of an urban region across cities.
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