Begins with a list in the second most populous country in the world

NEW DELHI - In India, the second most populous country in the world, today begins a list of people who will run for three weeks.

Enumerators should in due time to the inhabitants of a country which has 1.17 billion people, ask 29 questions about, among other things, their income, religion, education and access to basic public goods.

Respond to, as reported by the AP, could help authorities to identify areas where there is gross negligence, particularly where poverty is widespread and where many people do not know how to read or does not work.

"This is the second largest population census in the world," he told the press agency Press Trust India's Vice-President Hamid Ansari state, since responded to the survey enumerators.

India would in the population will soon be able to overcome China, most populous country in the world.

Annual population growth rate in India is 1.4 percent, which is much more than China with 1.3 billion people, where the growth rate of 0.49 percent, according to estimates from 2010.

Indian officials believe that the national census, conducted every 10th , the key for the government and the private sector, because they provide the necessary information on which they can establish appropriate policies, run programs and create budgets.

This is the second phase of the list, after last year's first phase in which established a list of the 300 million Indian households, from which the estimated number of 1.17 billion people in India.

The list will be the first time in history, to include all citizens, even prisoners and the homeless.

The list will carry about 2.7 million enumerators, many of whom are teachers.

Officials have warned residents that if they hide some facts or giving false answers to risk a fine of up to 1,000 rupees (about 22 dollars).

India will separate later this year to implement caste list because officials decided that the issue of caste affiliation was too "controversial" for its secular and multicultural democracy, and could jeopardize the results of the census.