The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded the immediate scrapping of the Centre’s High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC), raising strong objections to its functioning and the nature of data being collected.
In a statement, the...
The Manipur Legislative Assembly has unanimously approved a resolution urging the Government of India to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state before the upcoming Census. This decision was made during the evening...
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has established a High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC) to conduct a comprehensive study regarding demographic shifts in...
The guidelines for the Census 2026 state that individuals residing away from their hometown for work, education, or other reasons will be counted at...
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has officially notified that the next national census will be conducted in 2027, marking India’s first population count...
Data is the new gold. Data is required to identify problems, frame policies, recognise beneficiaries and deliver solutions to them. Over the last three...
According to Census 2011, persons with a disability make up for 2.21% in India’s population. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has been...
Recently, Assam’s health minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, unveiled the draft of a new population policy for the state. It proposes, among other things, to...