Indıa Census

epa02123628   Indian Census Officials walk beneath rows of washing lines as they go about their work  recording information on family members  living in one of the slum areas , in the Southern Indian city of Bangalore on 19 April 2010 as India begins a year-long census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photographfingerprints every citizen over the age of 15 toa national databasethen issue its first national identity cards . About 2 . 5 million census-takers began travelling across more than 630 , 000 villages5 , 000 cities in an effort to visit every structure serving as a home , from tin shanties to skyscrapers , in what the government calls the world ' s largest administrative exercise .  EPA/JAGADEESH NV