Census Rules 2026: What has changed, why centre expanded enumerator eligibility & what does it mean for Census 2027?
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Census Rules 2026: What has changed, why centre expanded enumerator eligibility & what does it mean for Census 2027?
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has notified amendments to the Census Rules, 1990, expanding the categories of people eligible for appointment as enumerators for Census operations. The revised rules include teachers from government and private educational institutions, government officials, local authority staff and other individuals considered suitable by the respective State or Union Territory administrations. The amendment, notified on Fri…
Census 2027: Who is the government allowing to collect your data?
The Modi-led government is widening the doors of Census 2027 to private individuals and organisations at a time when the collection of personal data has become inseparable from growing fears of citizenship scrutiny and electoral exclusion. A notification issued by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India on October 16, amending the Census Rules,…
Who will collect India’s data? Modi-led government opens census to private individuals
The Centre’s amended Census Rules allow private teachers, members of societies and trusts, and other government-approved individuals to collect household information, without the notification setting out clear safeguards against political interference
Census 2027: Is the Line Between Data Collection and Political Mobilisation Blurring?
As the Census (Amendment) Rules 2026 allow the state government to hire any staff, even from a society, NGO, and trust, political analysts allege that this has been done with a view to appointing RSS-aligned individuals to manipulate the Census data to accomplish their anti-Muslim agenda of further marginalising them. By Sami Ahmad NEW DELHI: […]
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