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India Sets December 31 Deadline for Census Boundary Freeze, Launches Digital Preparations

States, union territories must lock administrative limits by year-end, ensuring uniform enumeration blocks ahead of the April 1, 2026 houselisting operations.

A census official collects information from a household in Guwahati in 2011.
The Centre announced earlier this month that the 16th Census will finally be carried out after a gap of 16 years. (Representational image)
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Overview

  • Registrar General Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan has directed all states and union territories to finalise district, sub-district and village boundaries by December 31, 2025.
  • Uniform enumeration blocks will be created from frozen boundaries, with each block assigned to an enumerator to prevent omissions or duplications.
  • Phase one houselisting operations will begin on April 1, 2026 using mobile applications and a self-enumeration portal to gather household asset and amenity data.
  • The population enumeration phase is scheduled for February 1, 2027, and will collect individual demographic, socio-economic and caste information for the first time since 1931.
  • A fully digital census effort will mobilise more than 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors alongside 1.3 lakh functionaries to execute the two-phase count.