Digital test underway for biggest ever census


THE country is trialling mobile software systems as it prepares to conduct the world’s largest – and first fully digital – population census in 2027.

The upcoming census will be the first since 2011 and will, for the first time since independence, register people’s castes – a politically sensitive exercise last undertaken in 1931 under British rule.

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