In the country’s first digital census, enumerators will collect the data of citizens using mobile applications on their smartphones, they said. It will also be the first time in the country that citizens will get a chance to self-enumerate through a dedicated web portal which will be available for both the phases of Census
Enumerators will collect data of citizens using mobile application. REPRESENTATION PIC/I STOCK
A special dedicated web portal will be launched for self-enumeration during the upcoming Census, which will be available for both phases of the national enumeration exercise, officials said Monday.
In the country’s first digital census, enumerators will collect the data of citizens using mobile applications on their smartphones, they said. It will also be the first time in the country that citizens will get a chance to self-enumerate through a dedicated web portal which will be available for both the phases of Census — Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO) and Population Enumeration.
“For the first time, technology will be used to collect data and send it electronically to the central server. This will result in early availability of Census data,” an official said. Reference date for the Census 2027 will be 00:00 hrs of March 1, 2027 and 00:00 hrs of October 1, 2026 for Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir and snowbound non-synchronous areas of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
The field trainers will train around 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors for the massive exercise. The Registrar General of India (RGI) has put in place a three-tier focused and need-based training for each phase — national trainer, master trainer and field trainer. The RGI has told states and UTs to make any proposed changes in the boundaries of administrative units before December 31, when they will be considered final for the Census exercise.
In a letter to all states and UTs, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan had said that for the Census, all villages and towns are divided into uniform enumeration blocks and for each block, an enumerator is assigned to avoid any miss or repetition during the population count.
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