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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] The next census is yet to have a confirmed date. [4]
The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of "Hindi languages". [71] According to 2011 census, 57.1% of Indian population know Hindi, [72] in which 43.63% of Indian people have declared Hindi as their native language or mother tongue. [73] [74] The language data was released on 26 June 2018. [75]
The Census 2011 recorded 11.65 lakh rural houseless people, while in SECC their numbers were only 6.1 lakh. The provisional rural data of SECC 2011 shows Scheduled Castes at 18.46% (or 15.88 crore), Scheduled Tribes at 10.97% (9.27 crore), Others at 68.52%, and 2.04% (or 36.57 lakh) as “No Caste & Tribe” households.
The 2025 census of India, or the 16th Indian census, is to be conducted in two phases, a house listing phase and a population enumeration phase.Although initially the house listing was to begin in April 2020 along with the updating of the National Population Register, and the population enumeration on 9 February 2021, [1] they have been continuously postponed.
The 1971 census of India was the 11th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. [ 1 ] The population of India was counted as 547,949,809 people.
The 1951 census of India was the ninth in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. [1] It was also the first census after independence and Partition of India. [2] 1951 census was also the first census to be conducted under 1948 Census of India Act. The first census of the Indian Republic began on February 10, 1951. [3]
Cover of Volume 17 of the 1911 census report (fully digitized file) Census in British India refers to the census of India prior to independence which was conducted periodically from 1865 to 1941. The censuses were primarily concerned with administration and faced numerous problems in their design and conduct ranging from the absence of house ...
The National Population Register (NPR) is the register with detailed records of all the people and includes both the citizens and the non-citizens in any rural or urban area of India. In contrast, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is the register of details about Indian citizens residing in India and outside India.