The Union home ministry has cut the budget for Census Survey and Statistics. The Registrar General of India will still proceed with the del...

Congress requests an all-party meeting to clarify if the upcoming Census will include a comprehensive caste enumeration and be utilized to ...

The Congress criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for delaying the Census, emphasizing that a caste count is vital for ensuring social, ...

India's working-age population has been rising since 1971 and is projected to reach 64.4% in the upcoming Census, according to SBI Research...

The Supreme Court has declined to entertain a plea calling for a socio-economic caste census, viewing it as a policy matter within the purv...

The Congress suggested that the government incorporate OBC caste data in the next Census by simply adding an additional column. The party n...

India is set to begin its long-delayed population census in September, aiming to complete the extensive survey in about 18 months. The cens...

The census is crucial for many reasons. Data matters, especially in a country with a large and diverse population like India, several devel...

India's once in a decade census was due to be completed in 2021 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technical and logistical ...

First, some facts. The first synchronous decennial census of British India was conducted in 1881. Since then, this enormous task was carrie...

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the SECC 2011, excluding the caste data, has been finalised and published by the Minist...

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav wrote to 33 senior leaders of different political parties on Friday, asking them for their suggestions and inputs...

Political parties have renewed the demand for a caste census and for the detailed data to be made public. However, the Modi government will...

The population enumeration was supposed to be carried out from February 9 to 28, 2021 with a revision round from March 1 to 5, 2021. This c...

Census 2021, as per current timelines, is to be held in two phases — Phase 1 covering houselisting and housing, to be conducted along with ...

The first phase of Census and NPR is slated to be held from April to September. Many states are supposed to begin the process from April 1....

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the state would move the Centre for a socio-economic caste enumeration to be done either by inserting su...