
17/08/2025
Findings from the latest Lokniti-CSDS survey, featured in The Hindu (August 17, 2025), reveal how deficits in essential documentation extend beyond individual exclusion to entire households, disproportionately affecting poorer and marginalized communities.
The analysis highlights how such gaps in access to documents may risk disenfranchisement and erode public trust in the Election Commission.
Read the article online here: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/how-document-deficits-may-risk-disenfranchising-the-poor-eroding-trust-in-the-election-commission/article69940899.ece
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Sanjay Kumar