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July 29, 2021 India’s upcoming 2021 census will be the country’s first-ever digital one and that’s problematic. The Narendra Modi government has developed a mobile app for collecting data as well as a  portal for management and monitoring of various census-related activities, Nityanand Rai, minister of state for home affairs, wrote in response to a question in Rajya Sabha (upper house of parliament) on July 28. An online census mechanism was first mentioned by home affairs minister Amit Shah in September 2020. In February 2021, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated a budget of Rs3,786 crore ($509 million) to it. The census, first conducted in 1872 in India, is the largest repository of the nation’s people, covering everything from demographics like age, gender, and marital status, to housing and economic activity. It is the only source of primary data at the village, town, and ward levels. It plays a huge part in the planning and formulation of policies for not

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