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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 photograph and fingerprints 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 travelling 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/JAGADEESH NV