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"Will not accept second-class treatment:" Manickam Tagore alleges discrimi
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Congress leader Manickam Tagore on Tuesday alleged discrimination against Tamil Nadu after the Union Government reportedly rejected Metro Rail proposals for Coimbatore and Madurai.
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"We welcome it...": MDMK founder Vaiko on Centre's decision for caste cens
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) founder Vaiko on Thursday welcomed the Union Government's decision for the caste enumeration in the forthcoming census, but noted that the census should have been conducted back in 2021.
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MK Stalin writes to other CMs, asks them to join committee on Delimitation
Updated : 1 year ago IST
In the letter Stalin pointed out that the previous delimitation exercises were conducted in 1952, 1963, and 1973, but were frozen by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 until the first census after 2000. The freeze was extended in 2002 until the census after 2026. However, with the 2021 Census del
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Nepal's indigenous Tamang community celebrate 'Year of Snake'
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The Tibeto-Burman ethnic group of Nepal, Tamang, constitutes about 5.6 per cent of the population the Himalayan nation as per the 2021 census. The residents of high-lying areas follow the Manjushree calendar as per which the 2861st year started from Thursday.
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Working-age Indian population rising; expected at around 64% in next censu
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The administrative work to hold the long-delayed countrywide census is underway. The last decadal census was conducted in 2011 and the latest was due in 2021. The 2021 census exercise was delayed citing the then-COVID-19 pandemic and has been on hold since then. The Census provides key socio
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Govt can collect caste-wise data of OBCs by adding extra column in census
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
"India has been conducting a Census regularly every ten years. The last such Census was due in 2021. The continuing failure to conduct this 2021 Census has meant that vital information necessary for economic planning and for social justice programmes has not been collected. As a result, for
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Delhi LG extends deadline for freezing administrative boundaries for the 2
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Delhi LG VK Saxena, has extended the deadline for freezing administrative boundaries for the 2021 census to June 30, 2024. The boundaries of administrative units are finalized to account for jurisdictional changes between Censuses.
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“G20 revealing biggest failures of NDA as it has failed…”: Congress trains
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Terming NDA as ‘No Data Available’, the Congress has every G20 country except India has managed to conduct the census, despite COVID-19, including other developing countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and South Africa.
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Exclusion of any caste other than SC/ST from 2021 Census, a conscious poli
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 23 (ANI): The Centre has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court and said the exclusion of any caste other than Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe from the purview of the upcoming 2021 Census is a "conscious policy decision" taken by Central government.
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Census 2021 to be conducted through mobile app, says MHA
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 21 (ANI): The 2021 census will be the first census to be conducted with a mixed-mode approach-a mobile app (created in-house by Registrar General of India office), said Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Bihar Governor orders to hold population census to update NPR 2021
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Jan 5 (ANI): Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan on Sunday ordered to hold the population census and update the National Population Register (NPR) in the state under 2021 census.
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Data for 2021 Census to be collected using mobile app: RGI offcials
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 9 (ANI): The data for 2021 census is proposed to be collected through a mobile app, officials from Registrar General of India (RGI) said at a two-day Data Users' Conference here on Tuesday.
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