Key Highlights
- Exercising powers under Section 8(1) of the Census Act, 1948, the Central Government has superseded an earlier notification issued in January 2020, while safeguarding actions already undertaken under the previous provisions.
- As per the latest notification, Census Officers will be permitted to collect data within their respective jurisdictions using a structured household listing and housing census schedule.
- "In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Census Act, 1948 (37 of 1948), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs (Office of the Registrar General, India) number S. O.
- 120(E), dated the 7th January,2020 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), dated the 9th January, 2020, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby instructs that all the Census Officers may, within the limits of the local areas for which they have been respectively appointed, ask all such questions from all persons on the items enumerated below for collecting information through the houselisting and housing census schedule in connection with the Census of India 2027," reads the notification.
- Also Read | India gears up for 16th Census in Feb 2027; Housing enumeration to begin in April 2026 The notified questionnaire includes 33 items of information, covering details such as building and census house numbers, materials used in floors, walls and roofs, condition and use of houses, household size, ownership status and the number of dwelling rooms.
