Overview
- The self‑enumeration window opened in West Bengal on Saturday, August 1, and began in Assam on Sunday, August 2, with portals active for roughly 15 days before door‑to‑door houselisting.
- Residents can submit a roughly 33‑question household form at se.census.gov.in, receive an 11‑digit Self‑Enumeration ID (SEID) and are not required to upload documents during online submission.
- State officials have mobilised large field teams for the houselisting phase, for example Tamil Nadu deployed about 115,000 enumerators and 19,000 supervisors to collect data digitally from every household.
- Early uptake is uneven: Tamil Nadu reported more than 1 million household submissions before fieldwork, while Tripura logged about 50,000 self‑enumerations, under 10% of households, and some flood‑hit districts in Assam have had dates deferred.
- Census authorities stress statutory confidentiality under the Census Act, 1948, the portal offers multi‑language support and a helpline, and the collected housing data and new caste statistics will feed planning and the separate population enumeration scheduled for February 2027.