The upcoming India Census 2027 has sparked a polarized discussion due to the controversial decision to include caste data for the first time since 1931. Many people are worried that this move will deepen societal divisions and strengthen caste-based politics. Some are calling for the abolition of caste and the end of caste-based reservations, labeling such measures as regressive. Nonetheless, there are voices that see value in gathering caste data for more effective socio-economic policies and targeted welfare programs. There is also widespread distrust concerning the government's handling of the census data, stemming from historical missteps and concerns about political manipulation and data accuracy.

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India will count its population by March 1, 2027, in a census to be held after an unprecedented 16-year gap, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Wednesday (June 4, 2025).

Achillesheretroy

How do you even do a proper census on a country of that size and density?

papusica_sosetica

What was the government’s rationale for delaying it for so long? I get it that COVID happened smack in the middle of when census was scheduled but it was all clear from 2nd half of 2022.

StayFrost04

Genuine question they updated aadhar card now y not use that to see the population as we do have a lot of illegal immigrates it can help in recoganizing them and it has several security features to prevent tampering and fraud, including a tamper-proof QR code, hologram, microtext, ghost image, issue date, print date, and an embossed Aadhaar logo

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Tbh this is true, never seen congress speak, let alone try to address, bigger problems like diplomacy or energy security. Just caste caste caste...

The_Last_EVM

RealFriendlyPitbull

No matter weither you are left wing or right rahul have indeed failed to provide a alternative vision for india .all his speech are jargon nothing else .

Congress has so many smart intellectuals .why are they not able to use them to atleast craft a vision of some sorts ?

Congress speeches be like :

Modi-adani
Modi-ambani
Modi-dictator
Modi-hitler
Modi hatao desh bachao

Character_Square2209

Congress goals me - RG and SG italian dream and selling the country is missing

Exactly what I see too. The opposition’s goal is to defeat the current government but don’t have a roadmap of what they would do in future if they win. At least the BJP is setting goals and slowly working towards the said goals.

hello2442

Yeh koi randia group mein daalo (I am banned there ) S**lo ki gaamd jal jayegi.

Mastersexyy

You forgot to add in Congress list:

3. Give free stuff ("guarantees") for votes

4. Keep poor people poor for votes

5. Help Muslims to out-populate Hindus

Gcen

Why Pappu doesn't talk about development in his speech?

travel_aakn

Dude bjp ho yah Congress ho yah Aap... Sab ke sab corrupt aur selfish hai


Bhagwan Jane kab koi aisa political party aayega jo sachmei India ke upliftment ke barei mei soche

Luc_90

BJP may have made more promises but they are good at breaking them

kuchbhichalrha

Yep BJP made promices of 2 cr employment each year, bullet train , 5trillion economy , smart cities , 15 lakhs in bank account.

What they achieved - Ram temple , Hindu muslim, Adani 3rd richest from 600th in a couple of years ..

futurepresident123

thats not true congress did promise to fullfill farmers demands

reservation in private jobs etc

The real BJP goal is to fool the people with these gimmicky events with no real implications in the life of common man. And then loot us when everyone's happy with these events.

Able_Mycologist_8017

Mere bhaiyo, kya tum OBC ho, SC,ST ho
To bas issiliye berozgar ho

PartyPlus4115

Also 60% kannada sign board in Karnataka.

IronLyx

impostora_24

lmao how do modis balls taste OP? what a moron.. support bjp because theyre the relative best among the shit choices we have, not because theyre actually any good.

rated-x-superstar

Nothing12700

Bjp is doing its job most of time, but this much religious extremism just to make sure you win in next election is just stupid.Sadly, we indians don't have a national opposition that have some credibile leaders, and until we have one, Modi is the only choice.

BaapTohaar

With BJP all these promises have been shifted to future tense permanently. It’s like ‘ek aur mauka do abki baar better hoga’.

Silspd90

DieHard3698

Promises are made to be broken.
Congress is the girl who likes u but u don't like her back, and BJP is the toxic girl u keep going back to because atleast she is hot.

energyfromsatan

Smart cities, bullet train, 15 lakhs, 2 crore jobs, controlled inflation, zero scams, upliftment of middle class. Par kya yeh pure huye

Weak_Zebra56

BJP has become BTP, Bhartiya Tax Party. They are putting tax on every f****** thing. Like everything, inheritance tax knew these tax that tax.
So many new taxes and s*** amenities and facilities given by the government. And then asked from the Finance Minister, she just laughs it off and acts like a total retarddd. Even though being the Finance Minister of India when she's when she's asked that why. Is this product taxed? She says like I don't care. I don't use this product so s*** like that she says.
Every single thing Is in tax. It's not wrong, but if you give s*** facilities. S***, security, s***** roads and tax 100% more its so hurtfull
Toll tax everywhere.
Daily wage's worker do not even have the right to travel in India. Because their daily wage is less than the toll tax between the cities they want to travel. They have to only travel by bus or train.
Plus if you want to travel by car. Anywhere in India. Sometimes, the toll tax is more than the cost of petrol, or at least half the cost of the patrol for stupid 50% tax on buying a car, even though Bieng such a law, one of the largest economy in the freaking world, we pay 50% tax on buying any car in india. Indigenously manufactured cars, which is totally freaking insane.

And it feels like they're finding new and new and newer newer ways to tax the people more. I mean, I don't understand what the f*** is going on. They tax every single thing now.

fychdhdkg

Bu-t - bu But Saar modi never give press conference Saar raga good sar cos he give press conference Saar 

Congress very gud for future india Saar more caste reservations=more debelopmEnt Saar

Interdimentionalxx

Idk about national level

But BJP didn't fulfill any promise in Chandigarh and even committed election fraud. 

And inserted pseudoscience into an educational park/zoo

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Modi didn't make any goals back in 2014 or 2019??

Bakree,have you heard your leader speech ironically they also claim to be OBC while enjoying premium perks from the government.

New-Load9905

Large economy mean better standard of living for everyone 🙄👏

Suitable-Host-9655

Arey isme Mera kya fayda, mujhe kya mil rha hai

StreetMadMan

Oh, of course! By 2022, farmers' incomes magically doubled, the youth found themselves swimming in 2 crore new jobs each year, and the Ganga flowed so clean you could drink from it! We're clearly already a 5 trillion-dollar economy, because, you know, miracles happen!

spirit101_gg

And your reference is that guy's tweet. He is an IT cell cockroach 🪳🪳😄

Ok-Consideration6512

How would anyone know. The media is controlled by the government. It is a sad stage we are in, in this country right now. Going through these comments I could find people supporting the BJP and dissimg the congress for playing caste politics?? What really?? Are you all literally so blind and stupid that there are basic things that you do not understand. Whatever reaches you has been carefully altered and edited. Media is a big part of any politics. You had a lot of issues when congress was in power because THE MEDIA WAS ABLE TO RAISE THOSE ISSUES. PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO RAISE THOSE ISSUES. We live in a scary country right now. 

All those who want BJP to come to power, please tell Modiji to do a press conference and answer the questions of real journalists rather than discussing mangoes with Akshay Kumar. What a joke. 

Shame on all you people. 

Also don’t support Congress. But please don’t support BJP. 


Goals can be set very easily. I can set a goal to become a billionaire by 10pm tonight. Does that help? No. It is as stupid as falling in a ditch but thinking you are going up. Unemployment, NPAs, PM Cares, Electoral Bonds, these are things that the government should answer for. Ye Rishi jisne tweet kiya hai wo bhi chutiya aur tum saare waah waah karne waale aur bade chutiye.

whyarebee

And still congress's goals seem.more realistic

sandyjj11

I cant be the only one who is noticing long term goals now. BJP is getting way too comfortable in power now. We really need a strong opposition

Sandeep_Naughtyal

Does india really need to host olympics? Do we really need our own space station? Do we really need to send men on the moon? If congress is a stinky smelly shit, bjp is just a perfumed one.

sezea

Just like how Modi promised that everyone will get homes by 2022 or how all the black money will come back?

MeNameSRB

I don't about BJP vs Congress but BJP promised 15 lakh in my account in 2014, but haven't received a single penny.

jDG10801

It's a very nice precedent,  but I really hope we can come up with a solution to deal with the water crisis situation that's going on in all our major cities.

LoquatFearless8386

Caste census especially if it's also cover wealth is better aim than many of the aims of Modi tbh. You can't be developed country if you majority population lives in shitty conditions and 5 trillion GDP would matter shit if the overall situations of the people don't improve. Caste census which covers wealth can give more data so welfare can be directed efficiently.

Mahameghabahana

Make random goals with no plan and claim winning. It actually shows the stupidity of BJP voters rather than BJP.

Some of it has no bearing on life of people.

Ok-Treacle-6615

As long as the data is public, I'm good. It was needed

XpRienzo

2027 Census can help with targeted policies, but it also risks deepening divisions and misuse of data if not handled carefully.

Emmanuel_BDRSuite

"Batenge to Katenge.

Ek Hai to Safe Hai.

Dharam pucha, Jaati nahi."

-Bhakts on odd days.

"Caste census is a masterstroke by Modiji.

Why didn't Congress do caste census?"

-Bhakts on even days.

TheVaingloriousIdiot

will there also be a count by buying power, could be very useful for businesses to have the latest data on household consumption metrics

No_Specialist6036

I saw some caste people were doing protest against this here in maharashtra "this is against our rights" Says people who are abusing system made for poor and refuse for strict checking of who are actually from poor families in cast because it is one of the rules that must be followed while giving seats.

Edit: not every caste some particular made for backward class

shipisshipping

It was also a part of the 2011 census but the data didn't get published due to errors so what's the big deal now?

Aurousishere

Simplebatata

There should be an option to choose no cast no religion too.

Mr-_-Anonymus

&gt; Top government officials said there are two important issues to take note of in this Census. One, this Census must not be immediately linked with the delimitation exercise because the government does not expect to wrap up the entire process – including final publication of Census data — in time for the 2029 Lok Sabha elections. The 2011 Census data was released only in April 2013.

bro. why is it taking 2 years to release Census data?

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After caste census the reservation will be raised to 75% 🤗

churuli_thankan

Will not be surprised if M population and H population will be in ratio of 30:70. Maybe more

arcwizard007

But how will it happen what if someone doesn't know his caste?

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India is set to commence the Census 2027 after a 16-year gap, leveraging digital tools for efficient data processing. It includes caste data for the first time since 1931, influencing socio-economic planning and political representation.

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