Overview
- India’s Registrar General, which acknowledged the labeling error Saturday, said it raised the issue with the map services provider and the map was corrected.
- The mix-up was spotted by retired Group Captain Mohonto Panging Pao during self-enumeration on se.census.gov.in, who said he could not proceed after seeing Pasighat tagged as “Medog.”
- Self-enumeration asks residents to pin their homes on a built-in map, so a wrong place name can block submissions, and about 12 lakh households have already used the portal.
- MapmyIndia urged agencies to adopt verified Indian geographic data over foreign map APIs for critical platforms such as the Census portal.
- The episode hit a sensitive nerve in Arunachal Pradesh, where India has rejected China’s attempts to assign Chinese names to places in the state.