Census to be conducted in 2027, govt notifies
This story was originally published at 14:26 IST on 16 June 2025
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NEW DELHI – The census of the population will be conducted in 2027, the office of Registrar General of India said in a notification Monday. "...the Central Government hereby declares that a census of the population of India shall be taken during the year 2027," the notification read. "The reference date for the said census shall be 00.00 hours of the 1st day of March, 2027, except for the Union territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand."
The reference date for the Union territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand will be 0000 IST Oct. 1, 2026.
The census will also include caste enumeration, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Jun. 4. The census will be conducted in two phases, the ministry said. The census, due in 2021, was initially postponed on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. The census of India is normally conducted every decade under the provisions of the Census Act, 1948, and the Census Rules, 1990.
On Apr. 30, the government had decided to include caste enumeration in the Census. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, amid intense pressure from the Opposition to collect data on the country's caste composition for effective policy-making.
The last census of India was conducted in 2011 in two phases--Phase 1 – House Listing (Apr. 1-Sept. 30, 2010) and Phase II – Population Enumeration (Feb. 9 to Feb. 28, 2011) with Mar. 1, 2011, as the reference date. Census 2011 had recorded a population of over 1.21 billion in India. End
Reported by Kuldeep Singh
Edited by Avishek Dutta
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