Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India addresses Press Conference on Census-2027, in New Delhi today

• Census-2027 is India's 16th decennial Census and the first-ever digital Census, conducted by the Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (ORGI) under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• Touted as the world's largest census exercise; will, for the first time since 1931, enumerate castes.
• Examinable across Prelims (institutions, Acts, dates) and Mains (GS-I demography; GS-II governance/federalism; GS-III tech & data security).