TNPSC Current Affairs July 03, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs July 03, 2018 (03/07/2018)

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Topic: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act

Census of India

According to an amended rule notified by the Registrar-General of India (RGI), the data collected during the 2021 Census will be stored electronically, the first time since the decennial exercise was conducted in 1951 in Independent India.

Census of India:

The decennial Census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011. While it has been conducted every 10 years, beginning in 1872, the first complete census was taken in the year 1881.

Post 1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

All the census since 1951 are conducted under 1948 Census of India Act.

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Topic : New Appointments, Persons in News, Latest Diary of Events

Puducherry’s first woman DGP

Sundari Nanda took over as the Union Territory’s first woman Director-General of Police. She replaces the incumbent DGP S.K. Gautam, who has been transferred to New Delhi.

Key facts:

Ms. Nanda, a 1988 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre, earlier served as the Special Commissioner of Police (Headquarters), Delhi police.