(Credit: Census of India) The Census schedule of 1951, Independent India’s first Census. (Credit: Census of India) Census enumerators at a village in Delhi in 1981. (Credit: Census of India) Vallabhbhai Patel, then Deputy PM, addressing a Census meeting in 1950. Concern over delayThere is considerable concern among policy experts and observers when it comes to the delay in India’s census. If you announce beforehand that we want to have the census because we want to do the delimitation exercise, then it will completely spoil and vitiate the quality of the census data.

Source: Indian Express September 30, 2023 08:31 UTC