Hi,

India Census 2011 data are available in the government website
http://censusindia.gov.in/
Detailed tables are available in
http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/prov_rep_tables.html in
PDF as well as "Excel Version"

While checking the copyright information about the data, I reached in
this page: http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Footer_Menus/Disclaimer.html
(yeah!, Footer_Menus)

[...]
Copyright:

Material on this site subject to copyright unless otherwise indicated.
The material may be downloaded without requiring prior permission. Any
other proposed use of the material is subject to the approval of ORGI
- New Delhi. Application for obtaining permission should be made to
ORGI, New Delhi

[...]

I am a bit confused about this, What is meant by "Downloading without
permission"?
Census data is  very data used in many places. People looking for
population, literacy, etc often land in Wikipedia pages and not in
these websites. So if we copy this data and put in wikipedia artcle
about India  or a State in India, does it cause any copy right
violation?

Is there any thing we can do it get this copyright statement
corrected? Either to"Public Domain" or any permissive licenses?

Thanks
Santhosh Thottingal
http://thottingal.in
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