Caste, COVID vaccine, bank accounts, voter/aadhaar: The big changes in census 2027

For the first time since Independence, India’s Census will record the caste of all respondents, making Census 2027 one of the most significant demographic exercises in the country’s history. The new questionnaire expands from 29 categories in Census 2011 to 40 questions and includes information on caste, digital liter

Data will remain confidential, can’t be used for legal evidence, govt benefits or public disclosureNEW DELHI: The second phase of Census 2027 — involving population enumeration — will, for the first time, capture caste “as declared by the respondent” among its 40 fields, which include new ones such as number of bank ac

The questionnaires from previous Censuses, from 1872 to 2011, available on the Census Department's website, do not include questions seeking details of such documents held by respondents.