Overview
- India’s Registrar General said Friday that more than 5.72 lakh households have used the self-enumeration portal in the first phase of Census 2027.
- Self-enumeration lets families fill a secure online form before field visits, with current windows tied to states that start house-listing from April 16 in an initial set of eight regions.
- The first phase, called House Listing and Housing Census, records 33 items such as building materials, electricity and water access, asset ownership, and the head of household’s details.
- Officials say data from enumerators’ apps is wiped from devices after upload and kept on central servers under confidentiality rules in the Census Act, 1948.
- States are racing through training and block mapping, with Uttar Pradesh setting an April 10 database deadline, Telangana scheduling May 11–June 9 house-listing, and Delhi issuing legal notices, even as experts warn digital scale raises risks of privacy breaches and political misuse linked to the approved caste count.