Overview
- Census 2027 moved into its first phase on June 1, with self-enumeration portals and house‑listing operations opening or about to start in multiple states and union territories.
- Officials reported strong early uptake: Jammu and Kashmir logged about 667,517 households and Ladakh 7,009 completing self-enumeration, while Gujarat recorded roughly 374,000 submissions before field visits began.
- The exercise is fully digital, using dedicated Android and iOS apps with offline capability in multiple languages and a national self‑enumeration portal (se.census.gov.in) that issues an 11‑digit ID for verification by visiting enumerators.
- States have stepped up training and staffing for fieldwork, with district training drives starting (Kerala from June 4), large deployments planned in Nagaland (more than 6,000 officials) and census kits and block geo‑tagging already distributed in many areas.
- Population and caste enumeration is scheduled nationwide for February 9–28, 2027, with separate windows for snow‑bound areas and legal safeguards that keep individual census data confidential while officials warn against duplicate or inflated entries that could skew planning.