PRAYAGRAJ, May 7 -- The district administration in Prayagraj has seen a surge of requests from government employees seeking exemption from Census 2027 duties on medical grounds soon after assignments were made. In response, the district census officer asked the chief medical officer (CMO) to constitute a medical board to examine the claims at the earliest.

Vinita Singh, additional district magistrate (finance and revenue) and district census officer, stated that the census work involves approximately 14,400 government employees in the district. Nearly 80% of these employees are teachers from the primary and secondary education departments. Staff have been deployed across eight tehsils, eight Nagar Panchayats and 80 wards of the Municipal...