UP rolls out first-ever online self-enumeration for Census 2027 from Nov 16

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Uttar Pradesh households can submit Census 2027 details online from November 16 to 30. The optional first-time facility will streamline visits, though enumerators will cover every home.

Households in Uttar Pradesh will be able to submit their details online for Census 2027 from November 16, before enumerators visit their homes, news agency Press Trust of India reported, citing a senior official.

The optional self-enumeration facility will remain available until November 30 on the official portal, census.gov.in The population enumeration exercise, including caste enumeration, will be held from December 1, 2026, to January 4, 2027.

Uttar Pradesh Director of Census Operations Sheetal Verma appealed to people at a press conference on Saturday to participate in the exercise and provide accurate information. Enumerators will collect personal, social, educational and economic details from every household through a questionnaire containing 40 questions.

Verma told Press Trust of India that self-enumeration was optional and enumerators would visit every household. "Those who do not use the online facility will have their details collected directly by enumerators," she said.

People using mobile phones to fill in the form should correctly mark the location of their house with the pin-drop facility, Verma said. They can use the "Current Location" option while physically present at home.

The questionnaire will seek details such as a person's name, relationship with the head of the household, sex, age, marital status, nationality, religion, caste, disability, languages, education, occupation, economic activity and migration.

The reference date for Census 2027 is midnight on January 4-5, 2027. The homeless population will be counted on the night of January 4. The exercise will include people living on footpaths, under bridges and flyovers, and in other open spaces.

The first phase, covering house listing and the housing census, was completed in Uttar Pradesh between May 22 and June 20 this year. Verma said individual information provided during the census would remain confidential under Section 15 of the Census Act, 1948.

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