Centre to release religion-based census data at 'appropriate time'

New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday said religion-based census data will be released at an "appropriate time".

"The religion-based census data will be released at an appropriate time," he told reporters. "If its been prepared, it will be released."

The registrar general and census commissioner, a department under the home ministry prepares this data.

The last such data was made public in 2004. The data to be released now was updated till 2011.