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The Registrar General of India (RGI) has directed each the States and Union Territories to implicit the assignment of census functionaries -- the officers liable for the monolithic information postulation workout -- by January 15, 2026, according to a latest circular.
The enumerators and supervisors are the superior census functionaries liable for information postulation during the exercise, the circular said.
"An Enumerator is to beryllium assigned the enactment of astir 700-800 colonisation and 1 Supervisor is to beryllium engaged for each six Enumerators. Besides, determination shall beryllium 10 per cent reserve Enumerators and Supervisors for immoderate contingencies," it said.
The RGI said, according to Rule 3 of the Census Rules (1990), teachers, clerks oregon immoderate authoritative of a State authorities and section authorization tin beryllium appointed arsenic an enumerator, portion a supervisor volition beryllium an serviceman mostly of a fertile higher than that of the enumerator.
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In addition, the States volition besides name census officers. In the districts, the territory collectors, territory magistrates oregon immoderate nominated officers are designated arsenic main census officers, who volition beryllium liable for the census operations successful their jurisdiction.
Similarly, successful a division, wherever it exists, the divisional commissioner volition enactment arsenic the divisional census officer, portion successful a municipal corporation, the municipal commissioner and the administrative caput of the civic assemblage would relation arsenic the main census serviceman oregon further main census serviceman oregon complaint officer, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be.
During the upcoming census, astir 30 lakh tract functionaries volition beryllium deployed to implicit the task of taking the colonisation number crossed the state wrong a fixed clip frame.
Web portal to show activities
The RGI has developed a web portal — Census Management and Monitoring System (CMMS) for Census 2027 — to negociate and show each activities similar the assignment of enumerators and supervisors, assigning the enumeration blocks and supervisory circles to them and real-time advancement of the tract work.
"With each these caller initiatives for Census 2027, it becomes each the much important to initiate the assignment of Census officers good successful beforehand and implicit each different formalities similar registration of Census functionaries connected CMMS portal with close and implicit details," the circular said.
It added that though the assignment of enumerators and supervisors, who volition beryllium undertaking the existent information collection, volition beryllium done later, they request to beryllium identified successful beforehand and registered connected the CMMS portal.
"The State Government/Union Territory Administration are requested to guarantee the assignment of Census functionaries arsenic elaborate successful the circular latest by January 15, 2026," the papers said.
Census 2027 successful 2 phases
The Census 2027 volition beryllium conducted successful 2 phases — the first, the House Listing and Housing Census, betwixt April and September 2026 and the second, Population Enumeration (PE), successful February 2027.
The archetypal signifier from April to September 2026 volition beryllium conducted successful a play of 30 days successful accordance with the convenience of the State governments.
Population Enumeration volition beryllium done successful February 2027 with the notation day of 00:00 hours of March 1, 2027, but for the Union Territory of Ladakh, the snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, wherever it volition beryllium done successful September 2026 with the notation day of 00:00 hours of October 1, 2026.
The workout volition beryllium integer and volition besides see caste enumeration arsenic decided by the Cabinet Committee connected Political Affairs connected April 30.
