A census official collects data from a family in Guwahati in 2011.(File/AP)
In a letter dated June 27 to all states and UTs, registrar common and census commissioner of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan stated that for the census, all villages and cities are divided into uniform enumeration blocks and for every block, an enumerator is assigned to keep away from any miss or repetition in the course of the inhabitants rely.
“From April 1, 2026, the Houselisting Operation, the appointment of supervisors and enumerators and the work division amongst them shall be accomplished, and on February 1, 2027, the Census of the inhabitants will start,” Narayan stated in his letter to chief secretaries of all states and UTs. “It is necessary that after enumeration blocks are finalised, boundaries of administrative items are usually not modified.”
The registrar common additional requested the chief secretaries to direct all departments “to make any proposed modifications within the boundaries of municipal firms, income villages, tehsils, sub-divisions or districts earlier than December 31”.
“The states/UTs ought to be sure that no modifications ought to be made within the boundaries of administrative items between January 1, 2026, and March 31, 2027, throughout which Census train will happen. Any modifications within the current boundaries have to be intimated to Census directorates within the states and UTs and Registrar General of India by December 31, 2025. For Census 2027, boundaries of administrative items shall be frozen on December 31, 2025,” the letter added.
To guarantee a good workload for enumerators, an administrative unit is split into manageable sections for the census referred to as “blocks”. A block is a clearly outlined space inside a village or city on a notional map for census functions.
These are termed houselisting blocks (HLBs) throughout houselisting operations and enumeration blocks (EBs) throughout inhabitants enumeration and function the smallest administrative items for the census.
According to the letter, the houselisting operations for the census will start from April 1, 2026, marking the beginning of the primary section of the decadal train. “Before that, the appointment of supervisors, enumerators and work distribution amongst them shall be accomplished with cooperation from states and district administration,” the letter stated.
Earlier this month, the workplace of registrar common of India (ORGI) in a notification introduced that the sixteenth census, which may even embody caste enumeration, shall be carried out after a spot of 16 years in 2027, with the reference date of October 1, 2026, in snow-bound areas like Ladakh and March 1, 2027, in the remainder of the nation.
The much-delayed census shall be accomplished by March 1, 2027. Officials have stated that whereas information assortment can be over by March 1, 2027, the complete train to collate the info and publish it’s going to take two to 3 extra years.
On preparatory actions already accomplished, officers stated all states have already constituted census coordination committees (CCCs) below the respective chief secretaries. “As the Census train was initially to happen in 2020, ORGI had already written to states/UTs for forming CCCs in April 2019,” an official stated, including the committees have varied departments akin to income, native administration, municipal firms, rural improvement and panchayats, planning training, and so forth for conducting and monitoring completely different phases of census.
The pre-test for census — which is performed prior to every census encompassing all aspects to test feasibility of all questions, methodologies, logistics preparations, processing of information, and so forth — was additionally accomplished in 2019.
The ministry of dwelling affairs (MHA) has stated that the sixteenth census will see involvement of about 3.4 million enumerators and supervisors. Besides, round 130,000 census functionaries can be deployed for the train. The ministry additional stated that the upcoming census “shall be performed by digital means utilizing cellular purposes” and “provision of self-enumeration would even be made accessible to the individuals”.
The census shall be performed in two phases. In section one or houselisting operation, housing circumstances, belongings and facilities of every family shall be collected. Subsequently, within the second section or inhabitants enumeration, the demographic, socio-economic, cultural and different particulars of each particular person in every family shall be collected.
No Comment! Be the first one.