India, Aug. 14 -- The Centre on Friday notified 40 questions that respondents will be asked during the second phase of the Census, the population enumeration phase, with caste and the place of Covid vaccination among them. The exercise is set to begin from September 1 in snow-bound areas, according to a government order.

The population enumeration in Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand will be conducted from September 1 to 30, according to a gazette notification issued earlier this month.

In the rest of the country, the population enumeration (PE) will begin next year. This will be the first time caste details will be collected as part of the Census.

Here is the list of 40 ...