Census 2027 must fully record population of minority groups, say ex-bureaucrats
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A group of 90 ex-bureaucrats on Monday urged the census commissioner to make sure that the upcoming Census in 2027 fully records the population of minority groups in the country.
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The former civil servants, who are part of the Constitutional Conduct Group, said: “At a time when political leaders openly express their opposition to the inclusion of so-called ‘Bangladeshi Muslims’ in the electoral rolls, care must be taken to ensure that the Census fully records the population of various minority groups in the country, covering religion, caste and tribe.”
In a letter to Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, the former civil servants also questioned the “lack of transparency” about the reasons for the decennial Census being delayed by six years.
This lack of transparency, the ex-bureaucrats said, has led to “unnecessary apprehensions in the public mind” that the Census is being conducted now to enable the completion of the delimitation exercise in 2027-’28, in time for the 2029 Lok Sabha election.
“We would certainly hope that no such extraneous considerations have influenced the timing of the 2027 Census,” the letter read.
Delimitation is the process of redrawing the territorial boundaries of electoral constituencies. The Census 2027 will take place in two phases – house listing from April to September 2026, and...