Integrated Child Development Service staff member Anjali Chakraborty checks the papers (documents and local maps) she collected from the Municipality office as she starts working as a census-taker at Halisahar village some 64 km North of Calcutta, India, 06 April 2010. India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a national database and then issue its first national identity cards. About 2.5 million census-takers began traveling across more than 630,000 villages and 5,000 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/PIYAL ADHIKARY
Integrated Child Development Service staff members talk to each other as they wait to collect documents and local maps from the Municipality office before starting as census-takers at Halisahar village, some 64 km North of Calcutta, India, 06 April 2010. India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a national database and then issue its first national identity cards. About 2.5 million census-takers began traveling across more than 630,000 villages and 5,000 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/PIYAL ADHIKARY
Integrated Child Development Service staff members are gathered to collect documents and local maps from the Municipality office before starting as census-takers at Halisahar village, some 64 km North of Calcutta, India, 06 April 2010. India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a national database and then issue its first national identity cards. About 2.5 million census-takers began traveling across more than 630,000 villages and 5,000 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/PIYAL ADHIKARY
Municipality staff Sushil Sarkar(C) distributes documents and local maps during a census in Kanchrapara, 65 km north of Calcutta, India on 05 April 2010. India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a national database and then issue its first national identity cards. EPA/PIYAL ADHIKARY
Municipality staff Sushil Sarkar (C) distributes documents and local maps during a census in Kanchrapara, 65 km north of Calcutta, India on 05 April 2010. India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a national database and then issue its first national identity cards. EPA/PIYAL ADHIKARY
Integrated Child Development Service staff members talk to each other as they collect documents and local maps from Municipality office as census-takers at Halisahar village, some 64 km North of Calcutta, India, 06 April 2010. India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a national database and then issue its first national identity cards. About 2.5 million census-takers began traveling across more than 630,000 villages and 5,000 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/PIYAL ADHIKARY
