Census 2027 BIG update: Modi cabinet sanctions Rs 11,718 crore, India’s first digital census to begin from…
Vaishnaw said Census 2027 will be the country's first digital census, and the caste data will be captured electronically in the PE phase.
Census 2027: The Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave its formal approval to conduct the Census of India(BHARAT) 2027, and sanctioned Rs 11,718 crore for the exercise, which will be conducted in two phases, from April to September, 2026, and in February 2027.
When will Census 2027 commence?
Addressing a press briefing after a meeting of the Union Cabinet, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Census 2027, which will be the first digital exercise of its kind, will be conducted in two phases — house-listing and housing census from April to September, 2026; and population enumeration (PE) in February 2027.
“For Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the PE exercise shall be conducted in September, 2026,” he said.
India(BHARAT)’s first digital census
Vaishnaw said Census 2027 will be the country’s first digital census, and the caste data will be captured electronically in the PE phase, adding that around 30 lakh field functionaries will complete this gigantic exercise.
According to the minister, the use of mobile app for data collection and the central portal for monitoring purposes will ensure better quality data, and data dissemination will be much better and in a user-friendly way so that all queries on required parameters for policy-making will be available with a click of a button.
“Census-as-a-Service (CaaS) will deliver data to ministries in a clean, machine-readable and actionable format,” Vaishnaw added.
Will caste census be held in Census 2027?
Earlier, while responding to a queries related to Census 2027, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai had informed the Lok Sabha that caste enumeration will also be done in the census as decided by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs on April 30 this year.
The minister informed Census 2027 will be conducted through digital means in which data will be collected through mobile apps along with online provision for self-enumeration.
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