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The 2021 census is the first census to ever be postponed in India since its beginning under the British in 1872. Even during the Second World War , the census of India was held in 1941 as scheduled, even if the tabulations of the results of the 1941 census were incomplete compared to the detailed reports published after the 1931 census.
The 1948 Census of India Act does not bind the Union Government to conduct the census on a particular date or to release its data in a notified period. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next was to be held in 2021 before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India . [ 3 ]
India is likely to begin conducting a long-delayed population census in September, two government sources said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to plug important data gaps in his third term ...
The religious data on India census 2011 was released by the Government of India on 25 August 2015. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Hindus are 79.8% (966.3 million) while Sikhs are 20.8 million comprising 1.72% of the population, [ 49 ] Muslims are 14.23% (172.2 million) in India.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will conduct its much-delayed national census soon, Interior Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday, after a delay of about three years. Reuters last month reported that ...
India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [50] lived in about 638,000 villages [51] and the remaining 27.8% [50] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [52]
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The decennial census of India is the primary source of information about the demographic characteristics of the population of India. The 2011 census is one of the largest censuses in the history of mankind. [67] The first census in India in modern times was conducted in 1873. First regular census was started in 1881 by Lord Ripon.