Census 2027 Phase 1 begins today, marking India's first digital headcount with caste data and self-enumeration. The long-delayed exercise will be conducted in two phases across the country ...

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The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications. Information minister Ashwini ...

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has claimed that the caste census data will help the government formulate policies for the upliftment of marginalised communities.

Demand for OBC quotas, even within women's reservation, is not new. It is, in fact, a primary reason why women's quota ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

Census 2027 raises hopes and fears over caste data, privacy, and inequality gaps. Can digital counting reflect real lives?

NEW DELHI — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...

The population count, which was delayed by five years, will include caste enumeration for the first time in a century.