Indian further census-training for counting the population and together with a list of castes in the most populous country in the world-on March 1, 2027, government officials said on Wednesday 4 June.
However, the exercise will begin in October 2026 in the Snow States and trade unions such as Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the officials said.
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The census exercise will be performed in two phases. The exercise will take about three years and the final data on the census 2027 will be published around 2030, after the elections of Lok Sabha in 2029.
In this exercise of the census, caste will be listed.
“It was decided to carry out the population census -2027 in two phases together with the list of caste. The reference date for the census – 2027 will be 00:00 hours on March 1, 2027,” said the Ministry of the Interior (MHA).
For the territory of the Union of Ladakhu and the unsynchronous snow -bound areas of UT Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the reference date of 00.00 on the first day of October 2026, MHA said.
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“The announcement of the intention of making the census in the population with the above reference data will be preliminarily published in the official Journal 16.06.2025, according to the provisions of Section 3 of the 1948 Census Act,” he said.
This means that after 2030 the definition will take place. This will be followed by a reservation of women and one nation, one choice or simultaneous elections.
When was the last census?
The last census was carried out in India in 2011. It was made 15 times until 2011. The census in India, which was given in 2021, was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The data of the new exercise comes a month after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-Maled Cabinet Committee for Political Affairs (CCPA) on 30 April approved the list of caste in the upcoming census-surprising decision that the opposition and Rahul Gandhi had long demanded Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
2027 Census, when it takes place, will be the first in 16 years.
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The opposition Indian block led by Rahul Gandhi promotes the caste census to take place, and claims that it is necessary to have a precise, current population and socio-economic data for effective politicians.
On April 30, soon after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-Led Center announced that caste enumerations would be made along with the upcoming census, the leader of Congress Rahul Gandhi repeated his application for 50 % of the ceiling to quotas in India.
“50 % of the ceiling on reservations becomes an obstacle to the progress of our country and the progress of back, Dalits and Adivasis, and we want this barrier to be removed,” Gandhisaid on April 30.
What is the caste census?
Census It means collecting data -based data during the census. Data provide details of caste distribution, their socio-economic conditions, educational status and other related factors.
The idea of census is to include questions about caste during the normal exercise of the census.
The list of caste was a regular feature of the census during the British government from 1881 to 1931. However, with the first census of independent India in 1951, the government ended this practice.
After India has reached independence, the government classified citizens into four wide groups on the basis of social and educational criteria: planned tribes (ST), planned caste (SC), other reverse classes (OVC) and general category.
However, the data collected during the census since 1951 in India included the number of individuals belonging to SC and STS, except for religious designations such as Hinda and Muslims.
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Members of caste groups other than SCS and STS were not counted. In 1961, however, the Union’s government allowed states to conduct its own surveys and to form a specific lists of citizens of the Civil Code if they want it.
The latest caste data comes from the 1931 census, which was taken from independence. The 1941 census, which was adopted during World War II, also collected caste data, but has never been published.
Before the decision of the 30th April, BJP was considered as an aversion to the caste census. In fact, many parties’ leaders often focused on Congress and accused it of using caste to divide society.
On July 20, 2021 Foreign Minister (internal matters), Nityanand Rai, he told Parliament that the government Modi decided to be a policy to not quantify a caste other than SCS and STS in the census.
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