Overview
- The houselisting phase, which kicked off Saturday after the May 15 self-enumeration deadline, sends trained enumerators door to door to match SE IDs and record households that did not use the portal.
- In Delhi’s MCD areas, officials logged about 1.34 lakh completed online entries and deployed roughly 50,000 enumerators who carry QR-coded IDs, with warnings that penalties under the Census Act can follow persistent refusal.
- Meghalaya launched its 30-day digital drive on Saturday with 8,309 field staff across 9,950 house-listing blocks, using a mobile app under a bring-your-own-device plan with offline mode after full geo-tagging.
- Maharashtra saw only 7.68 lakh completed self-entries with about 12% quitting at the digital map step, while Punjab closed at around 1.5 lakh and moved to statewide visits from May 15 to June 13.
- Field listing forms the base for the February 2027 population count that steers welfare schemes, resource planning, and constituency delimitation across India.