Launch of 2011 Census
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Registrar General and Census Commissioner C Chandramouli present a Census plaque to President Pratibha Patil who gave details of her and her family members as Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram looks on on the launch day of the 2011 census at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi Thursday, 01 April 2010. About two and a half million officials have begun the task of collecting national population information across India"s 650,000 villages and 5,500 towns and cities to record the chaotic South Asian nation"s teeming billion-plus population.