The Central government had approved Rs 11,718 crore for conducting the Census of India 2027, informed the Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday. There will be two phases of the Census — house-listing and housing census from April to September 2026; and population enumeration (PE) in February 2027.
The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the proposal to conduct the Census, which will be the first digital exercise of its kind, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the media.
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.
The Census 2027 will also capture caste data electronically in the PE phase, Vaishnaw said.
About 30 lakh field functionaries will complete this gigantic exercise of national importance.
Use of a mobile app for data collection and the central portal for monitoring purposes will ensure better quality data, Vaishnaw said, adding that the 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, he said.
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