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A wrap of the day’s top developments.

Non-transparent rules on occupational safety, health and working conditions facilitate corruption

The absence of Census and household consumer expenditure survey data has reduced policymaking in India to shooting in the dark

The UN population report confirms the known unknown, but to reap a demographic dividend India needs a census done at the earliest

While both NPR and NRC created much controversy in the wake of the Citizenship Amendment Act, with many states opposing them, the deadline for Census enumeration was indefinitely postponed in early 2020 due to Covid outbreak.

Be it by courting non-dominant groups within the OBC category, or the most deprived or less mobilised sub-castes within the SCs, or by now reaching out to Pasmanda or backward caste Muslims with its labharthi politics, the BJP has sought to coopt Mandal and combine it with Mandir, often successfully.

The latest census results focus on employment, marital status and sexual orientation.

In 1881, more than 250 million people answered a list of sometimes puzzling questions put to them by hundreds of enumerators, and were counted in British India's first synchronized census.

The deadline to freeze administrative limits has been extended till June 30. A Census can be carried out only three months after this exercise is complete.

The number of people in Northern Ireland reporting bad health has grown to almost 150,000, census figures show. The Census 2021 figures, publishe...