Only Central government empowered to conduct Census under law: Centre to SC on Bihar Caste Survey

The affidavit filed by the assistant registrar with Registrar General of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs said, "I state and submit that census is a statutory process and is governed by the Census Act, 1948. It is submitted that the subject of Census is covered in the Union List under Entry 69 in the Seventh Schedule".

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