The central government has announced that the Census of India's population will be conducted during the year 2027. A gazette notification has been issued for this. According to the notification, the census will start from October 1, 2026, in the snow-covered non-synchronous areas of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. In the rest of the country, this process will start from March 1, 2027.
Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the preparations for conducting the census on Sunday. He held a meeting with Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Mahapanjiyan, Census Commissioner Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, and other officials. According to the government statement, this census will be completely digital. Mobile apps will be prepared for this and all the information related to the census will be collected in it. The apps will be available in 16 languages.
Home Minister Shah had said in a post on social media, 'The 16th census will include caste enumeration for the first time. 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors, 1.3 lakh census officers will do this work with modern mobile and digital equipment. The work of counting castes and census will start from October 1, 2026, in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and from March 1, 2027 in the rest of the country.'
The census will be done in two phases.
The census will be done in two phases. In the first phase i.e. House Listing and Enumeration of Houses (HLO), details of residential status, property, and amenities of each family will be collected. After this, in the second phase (population census), demographic, socio-economic, cultural, and other details of every person in every house will be collected.
8th census after independence
This census will be the 16th census of India and the 8th census after independence. This time the census will be done digitally through the mobile application. Self-enumeration facilities will also be available for citizens. Strict security measures will be taken during collection, transmission, and storage to ensure data security. It is worth mentioning that the last census was done in the year 2011 and this census will be done after a gap of 16 years.
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