In its notification, the RGI said the Centre has instructed all census officers to collect information on the notified items through the ho...

New rules for Census 2027 are out. Online self-enumeration will be an option. State governments will appoint census officers. Caste enumera...

The Union Home Ministry has clarified that the Census 2027 will include caste enumeration, refuting claims that the gazette notification om...

Congress has termed the 16th census notification a 'damp squib'. The party questions the absence of caste inclusion details. Jairam Ramesh ...

NITI Aayog is preparing a new framework to redraw urban boundaries using economic factors and current land use. This aims to help states ma...

Mallikarjun Kharge has demanded an immediate census, including a caste-based headcount, highlighting its importance for policy formulation ...

The Andhra Pradesh government is set to start a caste census for Backward Classes communities from November 15. The census aims to better s...

Shah observed that government is bringing provision that "as soon as a person turns 18, the Election Commission will take information from ...

After this merger, the Social Registry will become a single-source database register for all welfare programmes that will be updated on a r...

The fieldwork of the Eleventh Agricultural Census (2021-22) will start in August 2022, the agriculture ministry said in a statement.

Nitish Kumar said the exercise will be called 'caste-based census' in which details of all castes in all communities, along with their econ...

A government official told ET that deliberations are on in the rural development ministry to rework 25 existing parameters under SECC, and ...

Census 2021 will seek info from households on smartphones, internet access and DTH connection

Tarun Gogoi directed state chief secretary to initiate a "new comprehensive scheme" to fill the gaps emerged in the latest report of the So...

The Centre proposes to conduct caste census as a stand-alone exercise between June and September 2011, three months after completion of Cen...

A decision on allowing authorities to include caste as a parameter for Census 2011 will be taken only after due discussion in the Cabinet.

Census will measure usage of mobile phones, computers, reach of internet.