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In 1 of the archetypal specified instances, the Haryana medication has recommended the registration of a archetypal accusation study (FIR) against 2 authorities schoolhouse unit for alleged negligence successful Census-related enactment and for obstructing authorities duties. The Census Act allows for up to 3 years’ imprisonment for specified offences.
The transgression enactment comes adjacent arsenic Census enumerators, mostly authorities schoolhouse teachers, complained of hostile behaviour and denial of introduction by residents of highrise flat buildings and residents payment associations (RWAs).
On Thursday (May 7, 2026), Gurugram Municipal Corporation Joint Commissioner and Census Nodal Officer Punit Kumar said that Census enumerators had been denied introduction to respective lodging societies contempt showing their individuality cards. He said helium has informed each RWAs and managements of lodging societies that the authorities has deputed officers and enumerators for Census enactment and directed that they beryllium allowed to transportation retired their work.
“Several enumerators had this ailment that gated societies were not letting them participate to bash the Census related tract work. Following this, I person written to each RWAs that they should beryllium allowed introduction successful the societies, aft verifying the individuality cards and authorisation letter. The Census enactment is being carried retired successful nationalist interest,” Mr. Kumar told The Hindu.
Awareness campaigns
Census officials are conducting nationalist outreach campaigns connected societal media to pass radical that their information volition beryllium kept confidential and nary nonmigratory volition suffer entree to authorities schemes based connected the enumeration data.
Registrar General of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan flagged disconnected six consciousness vans connected Thursday arsenic portion of the Census 2027 nationalist outreach run successful Delhi for the ongoing archetypal signifier of Census 2027, i.e., the Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO). These vans volition question crossed Delhi, carrying messages connected Census participation, the self-enumeration facility, cardinal features of Census 2027, and the value of nationalist practice with enumerators during tract visits, a authorities connection said.
The run aims to guarantee wider dissemination of information, heighten nationalist awareness, and facilitate the creaseless behaviour of Census operations successful the National Capital Territory.
Penalty for obstruction
Mr. Narayan wrote to States connected March 17 informing them that immoderate Census authoritative who refuses to execute their work oregon damages and destroys immoderate Census papers volition look up to 3 years of imprisonment.
Mr. Kumar said that nether Section 11 of the Census Act, 1948, if immoderate idiosyncratic shows negligence successful the enactment assigned to them, refuses to execute the work, oregon obstructs the enactment of a census officer, determination is simply a proviso for punishment of up to 3 years’ imprisonment.
He said that a supervisor appointed for Census enactment had reported that unit from the GMPS School, Garhi Harsaru, and OMP School, Sector-1, Manesar were appointed arsenic enumerators. “Despite being informed respective times, some individuals are being negligent successful their duties and are refusing to transportation retired Census work. Their work has been assigned wrong the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation, and owed to their conduct, an important task similar the census is being obstructed. There are others besides who are refusing to bash the work, enactment volition beryllium initiated against them too,” Mr. Kumar said.
First signifier ongoing
The archetypal signifier of the Census began connected April 1 and volition reason by September 30 crossed the country. Around 30 lakh enumerators are to beryllium engaged. About 92 lakh households person successfully completed self-enumeration crossed 23 States and Union Territories done the authoritative portal truthful far, the connection added.
This is the archetypal integer Census and the archetypal to enumerate caste and let aforesaid enumeration. The past Population Census was conducted successful 2011. Caste volition beryllium counted successful the 2nd signifier successful February 2027, but successful Ladakh and the snow-bound areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, wherever some the phases are to beryllium completed by September 30.
House visits by the enumerators are presently underway successful Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Delhi (NDMC and Delhi Cantonment Board areas), Goa, Haryana, Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha, Sikkim, and Uttarakhand
