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A census enumeration team visits homes in Vattiyoorkavu locality. | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN The census questionnaire is perhaps the most comprehensive manuscript of a nation’s social, economic and political evolution. Far from being a neutral statistical exercise, it is also a record of the state’s priorities and anxieties at a given moment. Every new…
The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) said the proposed Census categories — seeing, hearing, speech, mobility, intellectual disability, mental illness, acid attack, chronic neurological disease and blood disorder — did not adequately reflect the 21 “specified disabilities” recognised under the RPwD Act. File | Photo Credit: Moorthy M Disability rights organisations…
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The questionnaire or the schedule for the population enumeration phase of Census 2027, which has gone live in Ladakh and snow-bound areas of three other States ahead of the rest of the country, seeks information on religion, date of birth and place of birth up to the village level of both the father and mother,…
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Census Enumerators seen during door-to-door survey. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Congress on Monday (August 17, 2026) accused the Modi government of deliberately excluding the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category from the census questionnaire, alleging that the omission was part of a “deep conspiracy” to keep the community’s actual population out of official…
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The first phase of Census 2027, comprising the Housing Census and House Listing Operations (HLO), will commence in Coimbatore district on July 17, according to District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar. As part of the exercise, residents can complete self-enumeration through the official Census portal from July 17 to July 31. The facility is available on…
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The rehearsal for the second phase of Census, which started in 16 States and Union Territories on July 6, has an “open column” for respondents to record their castes, several officials involved in the exercise told The Hindu. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The rehearsal for the second phase of Census, which started…
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Every day for about a month, M. Soumina, a government-school teacher, began her mornings by knocking on the doors of apartments in a multi-storey residential complex in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar. Although the school where she taught was closed for the summer break, Soumina had her task cut out for her after being appointed an…
Participants at the training programme for field trainers by the Greater Chennai Corporation. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Field trainers for Census 2027 commenced their training in Chennai on Monday, with the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) conducting the first phase of a three-day programme at five training centres. According to a press release, 171 field…
Census Enumnerators seen during door to door survey of Digital mapping for Census at Shashi Garden , Mayur Vihar area, in New Delhi on Friday. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Three weeks into the House Listing and Housing Operations drive under the first phase of Census 2027, enumerators across the city’s 13 districts are…
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju during a National Seminar on ‘Parsis in Modern India: Navigating Cultural and Socio-Economic Pathways’ at Yashwantrao Chavan Centre, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, on May 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday (May 9, 2026) said that the Muslim population in India is likely to be nearly the…
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