SRINAGAR: The population census across most parts of the country will be conducted from January 25 to February 28, 2027, with poll-bound states and snow-bound areas of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh excluded from the schedule, the Registrar General of India (RGI) and Census Commissioner announced on Friday.
According to an official notification issued by Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, the reference date for the census will be 00:00 hours on March 1, 2027.
The scheduled exercise will cover all States and Union Territories except Manipur, until further orders, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Ladakh. The snow-bound non-synchronous areas of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh have also been excluded from the January-February schedule.
The notification provides for self-enumeration from January 10 to January 24, 2027, ahead of the commencement of house-to-house population enumeration.
A revisional round will subsequently be conducted from March 1 to March 5, 2027, the notification said.
