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Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan connected Friday (January 23, 2026) asked the Chief Secretaries not to effect immoderate jurisdictional changes successful States till March 31, 2027 successful the aftermath of the forthcoming Population Census 2027.
Mr. Mohan addressed the Conference of Chief Secretaries of States/Union Territories, State Census Nodal Officers, elder officers from Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and Directors of Census Operations regarding the forthcoming Census exercise.
He asked the States to ensure timely assignment and grooming of Census functionaries; republishing of notifications’ effectual usage of integer tools, including self-enumeration; and a focused publicity and connection attack to physique nationalist awareness, spot and information to execute the afloat objectives of Census 2027.
The league was attended by the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) Mritunjay Kumar Narayan; Additional Registrar Generals Sunil Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar; Deputy Director General Biswajit Das and different elder officers.
“Welcoming the participants, the RG&CCI described #Census2027 arsenic a historical National workout and outlined its wide preparedness. He briefed connected the usage of the integer tools successful the ensuing Census including instauration of Self-Enumeration,” Census India 2027 posted connected X.
Mr. Mohan highlighted the agelong and affluent contented of Census successful India portion emphasising the pivotal relation of States successful the palmy behaviour of Census 2027.
The Home Secretary besides sought practice from the Chief Secretaries to regularly show and reappraisal the Census related activities successful the States.
The RG&CCI connected Friday (January 22) notified 33 questions that volition beryllium asked from each residents successful the archetypal signifier -Houselisting and Housing (HLO) of Population Census 2027, which volition commence connected April 1 successful antithetic phases successful each States and volition proceed till September 30.
This volition beryllium the archetypal integer Census, the archetypal to number caste and besides the archetypal wherever respondents volition beryllium capable to self-enumerate done a yet-to-be announced portal, the authorities had said.
The 2nd signifier of the Census - Population Enumeration (PE), successful which caste volition beryllium enumerated, volition beryllium done successful February 2027 for which the questions are yet to beryllium notified.
