India Caste Enumeration: The next decennial Census of India is set to break new ground by including a detailed enumeration of caste—something that hasn’t been attempted since the British-era census of ...

The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the enumeration of castes in the upcoming Census, bowing to a several decades-old demand and ...

Union Minister for Coals and Mines G. Kishan Reddy said on Thursday (May 1, 2025) that the Census Act, 1948, will have be amended to enable the enumeration of caste in the next Census exercise.

The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that a caste-based census will be integrated into the upcoming decadal census. The move ...

All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the then government decided not ...

Caste census will be incorporated into the national census in a "transparent manner", Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. In a press briefing, Vaishnaw said, ...

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House lawmakers tussled with one another and the top U.S. census official over the possible inclusion of a question on U.S. citizenship in the forthcoming decennial census in 2030 and drew ...

The Union government is yet to take a call on conducting the next Census exercise but active discussion is on to expand the data collection to include caste enumeration, a top government source ...

When the survey of the state line commenced Columbus was a small town with the 1820 Census showing a population of 107 people, but it appeared to only count those living along the Military Road ...

On the list of unfinished business of the departing Democratic-controlled Congress is reforming an often-overlooked keystone of U.S. democracy — the census. Democratic lawmakers were among the ...