Everyone counts: On Census-NPR postponement

The Centre’s choice to postpone the very first stage of the 2021 Census, earlier prepared to begin on April 1, was anticipated in view of the COVID-19 outbreak that has actually brought life to a standstill in India and throughout the world. The 21- day nationwide lockdown called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is till April 15, but the return of any form of normalcy in daily life will take many more weeks, if not months. India is still struggling to understand the extent and strength of the pandemic and the accompanying and inescapable economic disaster. What is for particular is that all resources, public and private, will need to be mobilised, first for combating the malady and then for tending society and the economy back to its health and dynamism. The Census is a huge exerc