The Union Ministry of Home Affairs issued the notification for 16th Census (Population Census-2027) to be conducted in two phases along with the enumeration of castes. The reference date for Population Census-2027 will be 00:00 hours of the first day of March 2027. For the Union Territory of Ladakh and the non-synchronous snow-bound areas of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir and States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the reference date will be 00.00 hours of the first day of October 2026.
It will be India's first digital Census (using mobile applications) and will include an enumeration of castes for the first time in Independent India. Very stringent data security measures would be kept in place to ensure data security at the time of collection, transmission and storage. It will be the sixth national Census since its inception and the eighth since India's independence.
The phase one is House listing Operation, in which the housing conditions, assets and amenities of each household will be collected. In the second phase which is Population Enumeration, the demographic, socio-economic, cultural and other details of every person in each household will be collected. In this Census, Caste enumeration will also be done. For Census activities, about 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors and around 1-3 lakh Census functionaries will be deployed.
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