NEW DELHI: India is trialling mobile software systems as it prepares to conduct the world’s largest — and first fully digital — population census in 2027.
The upcoming census will be the country’s first since 2011 and will, for the first time since independence, register people’s castes — a politically sensitive exercise last undertaken in 1931 under British rule.
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