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The Gurugram Police successful Haryana has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against 10 authorities employees, including schoolhouse teachers, for allegedly not performing Census-related work.
On May 17, the Census Officer of Municipal Corporation Gurugram filed a ailment astatine Police Station City, Gurugram, regarding 10 employees who failed to execute their assigned Census duties.
Based connected the complaint, 2 abstracted FIRs were registered nether Section 11 of the Census Act, 1948, astatine Gurugram constabulary station, constabulary said. The offence is punishable by good and maximum imprisonment of 3 years.
The Census authoritative alleged successful a ailment that the authorities employees who were assigned the work of Census enumerators defied authorities orders by not collecting information and not making a azygous introduction successful the designated location listing cognition (HLO) mobile app, contempt repeated warnings to statesman their work.
“Despite repeated instructions and guidance, the employees—Sandeep, Hansraj, Kuldeep, Rajesh Kumar, and Amit Kumar—did not transportation retired the Census work. Their non-compliance has caused obstruction successful the census process, and it is considered a deliberate usurpation of authorities orders. The constabulary squad is presently investigating the matter, and further enactment volition beryllium taken arsenic per rules and regulations. It has been emphasised that strict enactment volition beryllium taken against employees who neglect to study for Census work without valid reasons,” the Gurugram Police said successful a statement.
Census 2027 is being conducted utilizing integer tools for the archetypal clip portion retaining the accepted door-to-door enumeration process to guarantee broad and close coverage, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said successful a connection connected Sunday. During tract visits, enumerators are collecting information digitally done a dedicated mobile exertion connected their idiosyncratic phones. Information relating to lodging conditions, household details, amenities available, and assets possessed by households is being collected done a structured questionnaire comprising 33 notified questions.
Census is conducted successful 2 phases — HLO and the Population Census. The HLO signifier which started connected April 1 is to reason by September 30 crossed the country.
This is the archetypal integer Census and the archetypal to let self-enumeration. More than 1.44 crore households person completed self-enumeration done the authoritative portal (se.census.gov.in) crossed 25 States and Union Territories.
On Sunday (May 17, 2026), the door-to-door enumeration for the HLO signifier commenced successful 5 States and Union Territories, namely Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) country successful Delhi. Field visits for HLO are astatine contiguous successful advancement successful Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Telangana, and Uttarakhand.
The self-enumeration (SE) installation commenced connected Sunday successful Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, and Puducherry and volition stay disposable till May 31. The self-enumeration is besides nether mode successful Uttar Pradesh and volition proceed till May 21, pursuing which the HLO tract operations volition beryllium conducted from May 22 to June 20.
The HLO signifier has been completed successful Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Odisha, and Sikkim, on with the NDMC country and Delhi Cantonment Board country successful the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
