Is it really a good idea to count India’s population digitally? ...Middle East

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India’s upcoming 2021 census will be the country’s first-ever digital one—and that’s problematic.The Narendra Modi government has developed a mobile app for collecting data as well as a portal for management and monitoring of various census-related activities, Nityanand Rai, minister of state for home affairs, wrote in response to a question in Rajya Sabha (upper house of parliament) on July 28.An online census mechanism was first mentioned by home affairs minister Amit Shah in September 2020. In February 2021, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated a budget of Rs3,786 crore ($509 million) to it.Read the rest of this story on qz.com. Become a member to get unlimited access to Quartz’s

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