内容摘要："My philosophy is buy as many things as you can off the shelf. So all our motors, batteries, computers, cameras, they're all commercially available, mass produced parts," he says.

"My philosophy is buy as many things as you can off the shelf. So all our motors, batteries, computers, cameras, they're all commercially available, mass produced parts," he says.

The last time caste was officially counted as part of a national census was in 1931, during British colonial rule.India's census is conducted under the Census Act, 1948, which provides a legal framework for conducting the exercise, but does not specify a fixed schedule for when the census must be conducted or when its results must be published.

In 2020, India was set to begin the first phase of the census - in which housing data is collected - when the pandemic hit, following which the government postponed the exercise.In the years since, the government further delayed the exercise several times without any explanation, even as life returned to normal.Experts have spoken of the consequences this could have on the world's most populous country - such as people being excluded from welfare schemes, and the incorrect allocation of resources.

"The census is not simply a count of the number of people in a country. It provides invaluable data needed to make decisions at a micro level," Professor KP Kannan, a development economist,When Shamili left her home in India's Bengaluru city on Wednesday, it wasn't to see her favourite cricket team - she isn't even a fan of the game.

But the buzz around the Royal Challengers Bengaluru's (RCB's) Indian Premier League victory parade - the home team

for the first time - had swept through the city like wildfire."I thought maybe he'd remarried, and his second wife wasn't allowing him to come back home," she says sadly.

"I've been asking: 'Where is my son?'"The first time I heard he was a zama zama at Stilfontein, I was told by my son. He came to my house holding his phone and he showed me the news on social media and explained that they were saying he escaped from the police."

The police say several illegal miners described him as one of the Stilfontein ring leaders.His mother does not believe he could have been in this position and says seeing the coverage of him has been upsetting.