The census currently underway in India isn’t the world’s largest -- that distinction goes to China -- but it is likely to be the most comprehensive population count ever undertaken.
The Indian government has hired 2.5 million census workers and given them the mammoth task of visiting every settlement in the country, large and small, to count and document India's population of more than a billion -- a sixth of the world’s population.
But they aren't just counting and compiling names,
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