Falsifying the Truth: PUCL Condemns the Systematic Manipulation of Census Data and the Suppression of Ground Realities in the Ongoing Census Exercise
Newsreports disclose that ground-level enumerators are being systematically pressured by senior officials to alter, revise, and falsify data that accurately reflects the lived conditions of India’s most marginalised citizens, and to replace truthful enumeration with figures that serve the political interests of the ruling dispensation.