New Delhi, Nov 7, 2025 (AFP) - India tests digital systems for biggest ever census

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2025-11-07

India 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 country's 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. A 20-day trial begins November 10 in selected areas of the southern state of Karnataka. It......

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