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India’s COVID Death Reporting Is Broken But Here’s How to Fix It Journalists are turning to novel sources, but they need to focus resources on the right data. Cremations at Lodhi Crematorium. Photo: Shome Basu Media11/May/2021 For over one year now, Indian journalists and researchers have been attempting to answer one simple question: what is the real toll of COVID-19 in India? While large gaps exist in official data, the unconventional methods being used by many in the media to uncover suppressed numbers also suffer from some errors. We explain what the problems in the numbers are,...

Without caste census, OBCs will forever be denied social justice P.N. Sankaran chronicles the debate on caste census, argues that it is indeed feasible and shows how every effort to ensure representation in the State of all historically oppressed communities is bound to fail without such a census On 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on a petition seeking caste-based census in the country. The petition said that such a census would address the lack of data needed to provide adequate reservations in jobs and admissions to the Other Backward Classes (O...

Govt freezes boundaries of all administrative units in J&K UT Govt freezes boundaries of all administrative units in J&K UT Despite discrepancies, no proposal submitted till March 31 Mohinder Verma JAMMU, Apr 16: Government has issued orders for freezing the boundaries of all the administrative units in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir till the completion of Census 2021 as a result of which several discrepancies persisting during the past quite long time are likely to remain unaddressed for unspecified period. On the instructions of the Lieutenant Governor and in exercise of the powe...

Why India needs more reliable data on Dalit Christians and Muslims Without reliable data, the marginalised communities are left exposed to discrimination. Mar 16, 2021 · 07:30 pm The Constitution guarantees various kinds of protection and benefits to SCs that Dalit Muslims and Christians do not have access to. | Prakash Singh/AFP The exclusion of Dalit Christians and Muslims from the Scheduled Caste category, and the lack of reliable government data on them, deprives these communities of the constitutional benefits extended to Dalits from other religious background...

Updated: Share Article AAA The Government-appointed Census workers on duty during night, counting urban homeless living around religious places in Kalasipalyam, on pavements, under flyovers, and on railway platforms, during the Census 2011, in Bangalore on March 01, 2011. Photo:   | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar The Registrar-General of India (RGI) is preparing to conduct field trials of the first phase of the Census and the National Population Register (NPR) using a mobile application in all the States and Union Territories, a senior government official told The Hindu. The first phase inv...