Overview
- Assam opened its online self-enumeration portal on August 2 with the window set to close on August 16 and local officials urging residents to register and keep the generated Self‑Enumeration (SE) ID for later verification.
- District authorities say house listing operations and door‑to‑door field enumeration in Assam will follow the online phase and run through a scheduled district-level period beginning after the self-enumeration window.
- Districts have mobilised thousands of enumerators and supervisors and began training in late July, with Cachar reporting 3,031 enumerators and 512 supervisors and training that started on July 20.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a separate timetable for snow‑bound non-synchronous areas that shifts the online window ahead of a later field count and includes a revisional round, while some flood-hit districts in Assam have had exercises postponed because of local conditions.
- The exercise was delayed from 2021 for public‑health and methodological reasons and now introduces caste enumeration, a politically sensitive change that could affect planning, welfare distribution and future seat‑allocation debates.