A team of 2.5 million census-takers is starting work on the once-a-decade census to register, count and, for the first time, give an identity card to India’s population of about 1 billion persons. The 2011 census will take year to complete has a new twist: everyone will be photographed and fingerprinted, as the government adds biometric data to its population register.
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