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Of this, Rs 900 crore has been allocated to the north-eastern region and Sikkim. For the first time since Independence, the Parliament held a comprehensive debate on sanitation,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday.Īccording to the Budget document, urban sanitation has received a plan outlay of Rs 2,300 crore. “The subject was very close to the heart of the Father of the Nation. 31, and the apportionment deadline should be moved to the end of next April.The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) has been granted Rs 9,000 crore in the 2016-17 Budget for rural sanitation, an increase from Rs 3,625 crore granted to the initiative last year. The coalition of local governments and advocacy groups says the Census Bureau doesn't have enough time to crunch the numbers by Dec. Trump is appealing the New York case to the Supreme Court. That would allow the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, to enforce a Trump directive seeking to exclude people living in the country illegally from the apportionment count, the lawsuit said.įederal courts in New York and California have ruled Trump's order unlawful and unconstitutional. 31 so that the numbers used for apportionment are completed while Trump is still in office. The amended lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pushing to finish data processing for the 2020 census by Dec. Besides deciding how many congressional seats each state gets, in a process known as apportionment, the census helps determine the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending annually. The Trump administration said in court papers last week that the courts should not interfere with efforts to meet the year-end deadline for turning in apportionment numbers now that the Supreme Court has ruled.
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The Supreme Court decision allowed the Census Bureau to end field operations and start the process of crunching numbers ahead of the year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by state in a process called apportionment. The coalition of local governments and advocacy groups had sued the Trump administration to keep the count from ending a month early and to extend the deadline for turning in apportionment numbers from Dec. The revised lawsuit was filed late Tuesday, two weeks after the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration and suspended an order from a district judge allowing the head count to continue through the end of the month. “Such non-direct enumeration methods are less accurate and have a profound effect on immigrants and minorities - the hard-to-count populations.” In the race to finish field operations for the 2020 census, “Defendants cut many corners and made decisions that do not bear a reasonable relationship to the accomplishment of an actual enumeration," the amended complaint said. “Instructions such as those identified above suggested to enumerators that they should falsify data to close cases quickly,” the lawsuit said. In Baltimore, Southern California and the states of Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas, some households were marked as completed after only one attempt to reach residents living there, according to the revised lawsuit filed by the National Urban League the city of San Jose, California and others.Įlsewhere, census takers were pressured by supervisors to close cases as quickly as possible, and they did this by guessing the number of people living in a household, claiming an address was too dangerous to visit or falsely saying residents of a household had refused to answer questions during door-knocking, said the lawsuit filed in federal court in San Jose. Census Bureau was able to claim it had reached 99.9% of households when the 2020 census ended two weeks ago because census takers were pressured to falsify data as the statistical agency cut corners and slashed standards, according to an amended lawsuit from advocacy groups and local governments.