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Census 2027 volition beryllium conducted successful 2 phases, the archetypal betwixt April and September 2026 and the 2nd successful February 2027, the Lok Sabha was informed connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025).
Giving details of the workout successful effect to a question by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said the 2 phases volition beryllium — Phase I-House Listing and Housing Census followed by Phase II–Population Enumeration (PE).
The archetypal signifier from April to September 2026 volition beryllium conducted successful a play of 30 days successful accordance with the convenience of State/UT governments.
"Population Enumeration volition beryllium done successful February 2027 with notation day 00:00 hours of 1st March, 2027 but for the Union territory of Ladakh and 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 notation day 00.00 hours of 1st October, 2026," helium said.
The Minister said the census questionnaire is finalised connected the ground of inputs and suggestions from antithetic ministries, departments, organisations and census information users earlier each exercise.
The Minister said the census has a past of much than 150 years and learnings from erstwhile exercises are taken into information for conducting the adjacent census.
In a abstracted question, the Minister said caste enumeration volition besides beryllium done successful the census arsenic decided by the Cabinet Committee connected Political Affairs connected April 30 this year.
In different response, the Minister said Census 2027 volition beryllium conducted done integer means successful which information volition beryllium collected done mobile apps on with online proviso for self-enumeration.
