NEW DELHI -The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on December 12 approved the proposal to conduct the Census of India 2027 at an estimated cost of Rs 11,718.24 crore.

Census 2027 will count India’s population in two phases with digital tools, self-enumeration and 30 lakh enumerators.

India gears up for Census 2027, a comprehensive, paper-free digital headcount after a decade-long delay. This exercise will include caste enumeration for the first time since 1931 and will be crucial ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

FILE - Indians crowd ticket counters at a railway station in Ahmadabad, India, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File) (Ajit Solanki, Copyright 2011 The ...

Delimitation is the process of redrawing the boundaries of electoral constituencies for the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies to ensure that each constituency has roughly equal population and ...

How do you count to 1.45bn? Start with 3.5m. That is the number of people who will knock on doors, compile spreadsheets and crunch data to conduct a new census in India, the world’s most populous ...

Census 2027 will include transgender-headed households and feature digital self-enumeration for accurate data collection, ...

Census 2027 will be conducted in two phases, starting with Houselisting and Housing Census from April to September 2026, followed by Population Enumeration in February 2027. This digital exercise will ...

Home Minister Amit Shah launched four digital tools and two mascots for India's first digital Census 2027. The initiative includes a self-enumeration portal allowing citizens to submit household ...