Port Blair, May 21: The Census 2011 final data of Andaman and Nicobar islands is slated for release on 22nd May.   The Director of Census Operations, N K Sharma will release the final results of the population enumeration in the  islands in a function to be held at Directorate of Census operations at Port Blair today morning.

The house listing data on houses and house hold amenities was already released by the Directorate in February last year, followed by the release of  the provisional population data of the islands with the break-up of rural and urban distribution.

The biggest administrative exercise of the world, the Indian Census was started way back in 1872 and the present census is the 15th in the series. However, the Census works got started in the islands only in the year 1901 and hence it is the 12th one in the A & N islands.

According to the Registrar General of Census Commissioner of India,  Dr C Chandramouli, the total expenditure on Census operations across the country was Rs 2200 crores, which works out to hardly Rs. 18.33 per person. This massive exercise covered 240 million households across 640,000 villages and 8,000 towns.