Polity & Governance
Census operations director in U.P. says exercise to include caste enumeration
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The Chief Principal Census Officer in Uttar Pradesh has stated that a caste enumeration will be conducted concurrently with the upcoming national census operations. This announcement is highly significant as a nationwide socio-economic caste census has been a major political and social demand, and its inclusion in the regular decadal census marks a major shift in India's demographic data collection strategy.
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