Friday, 6 March, 2026
Census 2021 to go digital, mobile app to be used for decadal headcount
By Basit Ansari
<p>Centre government will use a mobile app to conduct Census 2021, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today. This will mark the end of school teachers and government employees traveling one home to another and filling bundle of forms. The Census, 16th in the series so far, will have 60 questions including amenities available at home, religion, caste drinking water, power, occupation, language, etc. The first Census was first conducted in the 1860s.<br />
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