The Centre on Friday notified 40 questions to be asked during the population enumeration phase of the Census, including respondents’ caste and place of Covid-19 vaccination.
An order issued by Registrar General of India Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan includes questions on whether a person belongs to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, as well as their caste.
Population enumeration in Ladakh and snow-bound, non-synchronous areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand will be conducted from September 1 to 30, according to an earlier gazette notification.
"For the conduct of the above Census, there shall be an option for self-enumeration from August 17 to 31 just before the start of house-to-house population enumeration," it said.
In the rest of the country, the population enumeration phase will begin next year.
(With inputs from PTI)
