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A four-day grooming to behaviour the pre-test workout for the archetypal signifier of the Population Census 2027 has started, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner (RG & CCI) said connected Friday (October 10, 2025).
“A four-day intensive grooming of Lead Trainers for the Pre-Test Exercise of Phase I — Houselisting & Housing Census commenced contiguous astatine Janganana Bhawan, New Delhi,” the RGI posted connected X.
Inaugurating the session, RG & CCI Mritunjay Kumar Narayan welcomed participants from crossed States and highlighted the pivotal relation of Lead Trainers arsenic torch-bearers successful cascading grooming nationwide and besides emphasised connected the creaseless behaviour of the first-ever Digital Census successful the country, the station said.
The Hindu reported connected August 28 that the pre-test volition beryllium conducted successful October and November.
Pre-test is required to trial the efficacy of the full workout that volition beryllium held successful 2 phases — Houselisting and Housing Schedule (HLO) and Population Enumeration from April 1, 2026, to February 28, 2027. This volition beryllium the archetypal integer Census and the archetypal to enumerate caste successful autarkic India.
The trial volition measure the projected questions, information postulation methodologies, grooming effectiveness, logistics, printing processes, information prime assessment, identifying imaginable tract issues among others.
This is the archetypal Census since 2011, arsenic the workout that was scheduled successful 2021 was delayed owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. It volition present beryllium completed successful 2027.
The pre-test for the planned 2021 Census took spot successful 2019, covering much than 26 lakh radical successful 76 districts of 36 States and Union Territories. Around 6,000 enumerators and 1,100 supervisors from State governments were engaged successful 2019.
