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Sangita, a 36-year-old Asha worker (government-employed community health volunteer) in Delhi, has been spending her days conducting the 2027 Census on her smartphone, going door-to-door in temperatures exceeding 40°C. Every household visit requires completing a 33-question survey digitally, but the heat often causes phones to overheat.

“The census app doesn’t work properly on our phones,” said Sangita, who, like a couple of others quoted in the story, didn’t want her last name identified due to professional reasons. “It keeps glitching, and........

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