Overview
- Top national figures, who completed self-enumeration Wednesday, urged households to submit details through the secure portal.
- Phase I began April 1 with house-listing that gathers data on housing conditions, household amenities and assets through 33 questions.
- Self-entry creates a Self-Enumeration ID for fast verification during visits, and officials reported more than 55,000 early uses of the portal.
- Odisha said trained teams will visit every home from mid-April across all 30 districts and ordered no transfers of staff assigned to census work.
- Officials describe a nationwide effort using mobile apps, 3 million workers and a $1.2 billion budget, with 2027 results set to guide policy and include caste data for the first time since 1931.