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The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) notified 33 questions that residents volition person to reply successful the archetypal signifier of Census 2027, which volition beryllium conducted betwixt April 1 and September 30.
While the notification published connected January 7, 2020 for Census 2021, which was delayed owed to the COVID-19 pandemic and ne'er took off, had 31 questions, the existent notification has 33. The caller notification splits the combined question connected the benignant of floor, partition and extortion of the Census location into 3 chiseled questions regarding the “predominant worldly utilized successful the floor, partition and roof” of the house.
According to the government, this volition beryllium the archetypal integer Census, the archetypal to number caste and besides the archetypal wherever respondents volition beryllium capable to self-enumerate done a yet-to-be announced portal.
Population Enumeration (PE), the 2nd signifier of Census 2027 wherever caste volition beryllium enumerated, volition beryllium done successful February 2027. Questions are yet to beryllium notified for the phase.
“The notification of questionnaire of Phase I of Census of India 2027 - Houselisting & Housing Census has been issued. The questionnaire for Phase II i.e. Population Enumeration volition beryllium notified successful owed course,” Census India posted connected X.
The notification by the RG&CCI Mritunjay Kumar Narayan successful the authoritative gazette said, “….that each the Census Officers may, wrong the limits of the section areas for which they person been respectively appointed, inquire each specified questions from each persons connected the items enumerated beneath for collecting accusation done the houselisting and lodging census docket successful transportation with the Census of India 2027.”
Census questions
The questions are: gathering fig (municipal oregon section authorization oregon Census number); Census location number; predominant worldly of level of the Census house; predominant worldly of partition of the Census house; predominant worldly of extortion of the Census house; usage of Census house; information of the Census house; household number; full fig of persons usually residing successful the household; sanction of the caput of the household; enactment of the caput of the household; whether the caput of the household belongs to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other; ownership status; fig of dwelling rooms exclusively successful possession of the household; fig of joined couple(s) surviving successful the household; main root of drinking water; availability of drinking h2o source; main root of lighting; entree to latrine; benignant of latrine; discarded h2o outlet; availability of bathing facility; availability of room and LPG/PNG connection; main substance utilized for cooking; radio/transistor; television; entree to Internet; laptop/computer; telephone/mobile phone/smartphone; bicycle/scooter/motorcycle/moped; car/jeep/van; main cereal consumed successful the household; and mobile fig (for Census-related communications only).
The pre-test oregon the preparatory workout for the archetypal signifier of Census was held from November 10-30, 2025 successful prime areas crossed the state and it sought effect to 35 questions specified arsenic creation of the level and extortion of the house, main cereal consumed, root of drinking h2o and cooking fuel, fig of joined couples successful the house.
About 30 lakh tract functionaries including enumerators, supervisors, maestro trainers, complaint officers and Principal/ District Census Officers volition beryllium deployed for information collection, monitoring and supervision of Census operations. All the Census functionaries volition beryllium paid suitable honorarium arsenic they volition beryllium collecting the information connected their idiosyncratic mobile phones and volition beryllium doing this enactment successful summation to their regular duties.
