Population Census to Begin on January 25 except Poll bound states
Babushahi Network
New Delhi, October 31, 2026: The central government has notified the schedule for the population enumeration phase of Census 2027 across the country, except in poll-bound states and snow-bound regions, from January 25 to February 28, followed by a “revisional round” from March 1 to 5.
According to a notification issued by Registrar General of India (RGI) and Census Commissioner, Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, the reference date for the census shall be 00:00 hours of March 1, 2027. It effectively means every person alive at that moment across the country will be counted, while a child born after the reference date will not feature in the final Census 2027 data.
“In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Census Act, 1948, the Central Government hereby declares that in all States and Union territories of India except the State of Manipur (till further declaration), the States of Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, the Union territory of Ladakh and the snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the State of Himachal Pradesh and the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir the conduct of census of the population shall be undertaken from the 25th January, 2027 to the 28th February, 2027 with a revisional round from the 1st March, 2027 to the 5th March, 2027,” the notification said. The “revisional round” for the census will be held from March 1 to March 5, 2027.
In a first for Census, citizens will get an option of self-enumeration from January 10 to January 24, 2027 and the window for the same will open “just before the start of the house-to-house population enumeration,” the notification said.
The last decadal census was conducted in 2011 and the 2021 round was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The world’s biggest headcount exercise is being conducted in two phases: house listing and housing census, followed by population enumeration.