The census, an official survey of country’s population which is typically conducted every ten years to update the National Population Register (NPR), is expected to be conducted in 2025, after a delay of four years in view of the COVID pandemic, as reported by India Today on 28th October.
The process for the national-level exercise, which was originally scheduled to be held in 2021, will begin in 2025 and is expected to be completed the very next year in 2026, the report added citing sources.
The delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies will commence after the census process is over, it said, adding that this particular exercise is likely to be completed by 2028.
The development comes when a number of political parties have been demanding a nation wide caste census. However, the central government has not yet made a decision on the issue.
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The report citing sources said that next year’s census may also include surveys of sub-sects within the General and SC-ST categories, in addition to the usual categorization by religion and social class, as well as counts of General, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes.
With reports regarding the census surfacing, the discussion on the caste census has started again in political circles.
Meanwhile, the central deputation of Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, a government official serving as Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, has been extended recently till August 2026.
Commenting on the ongoing demand for Census from various quarters, Union Home Minister Amit Shah in August said that “it will be carried out at an appropriate time. Once decided, I will announce how it will be done”.
The minister had also announced that this time the exercise would be fully digital.
The last census, conducted in 2011, recorded a population of over 121 crore in the country, with a growth rate of 17.7 percent in the total population.
