Bhubaneswar, March 20 -- Bhubaneswar: In the wake of Coronavirus outbreak in India, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wrote to PM Narendra Modi requesting the Central government to review the decision for Census 2021 initiative & updation of National Population Register throughout the country.

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In the letter, CM Naveen Patnaik explained that the first phase of house listing, housing census and updation of population register starts from 1st April 2020 throughout the country and more than 30 lakh enumerators and supervisors in the country will be engaged to carry out this huge exercise.

But before that, all those enumerators and supervisors needed to be elaborately trai...