Overview
- The state launched a 15-day self-enumeration portal that opens Tuesday at 6 a.m. for residents to submit household details online ahead of July field work.
- Residents who complete the form receive an 11-digit SE ID that they must share with enumerators who will verify submissions during house-to-house visits from July 1 to July 30.
- About 61,282 enumerators and 10,189 supervisors have been identified across Kerala and the exercise will be run through a mobile HLO app and the Census Management and Monitoring System.
- Many enumerators are primary and high school teachers, prompting government concern over staff shortages in July and consideration of measures such as 'duty off' while reserve lists are kept for contingencies.
- Phase I collects 33 housing and amenities questions as part of India’s first fully digital census and Phase II, the population enumeration, is scheduled for February 2027 with officials stressing that only aggregate data will be published.