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World Population Day – 11 July

Census 2027

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, TO BE

PART OF A CENSUS AFTER 16 YEARS

In the year 1989, the United
Nations had announced to
celebrate World Population
Day; since then, this day
has been celebrated every
year on 11 July all over the
world. About one-fifth of the
world’s population lives in
India. Recently the Political
Affairs Committee of the
Union Cabinet, chaired by
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, decided to include
caste-wise enumeration in Census
the upcoming census. This 2021
decision will empower the
economically and socially Was proposed in two
backward classes and phases, but due to the
promote inclusion... outbreak of the global
Covid-19 pandemic, the
census had to be
postponed.

Census-2027

n Will be conducted in
two phases.
The reference date for Ladakh and snow bound
n
non-synchronous areas of Union Territory
of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.will be
October 1, 2026.
The reference date for the rest of the country
n
will be March 1, 2027.

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