Overview
- Self‑enumeration opened on June 16 in states including Kerala and Nagaland and remains available through June 30 on the portal se.census.gov.in for people to generate an 11‑digit SE ID for later verification.
- The government says Phase I house‑listing has been completed in 23 states and union territories while other states have started or will soon start month‑long field visits to verify self‑reported data.
- Provisional HLO figures for Delhi published after its phase concluded show about 7.6 million census houses, 5.5 million households and 23.08 million ordinarily resident people, with officials stressing these numbers are provisional.
- States have mobilised large workforces — Kerala identified roughly 61,282 enumerators and 10,189 supervisors and many enumerators are primary and high school teachers, raising concerns about school staffing during July fieldwork.
- The exercise uses fully digital tools including an HLO mobile app and the CMMS portal, training of enumerators is largely complete, and the second phase, national population enumeration, is scheduled for February 2027 with a March 1, 2027 reference date for most areas.