Overview
- Uttar Pradesh, which launched phase one on Thursday, opened a May 7–21 window for residents to submit household details online before door-to-door checks.
- Other states are moving on staggered calendars, with Maharashtra running May 16 to June 14 after a May 1–15 self-entry option and Gujarat starting house-listing on June 1 following a 15-day digital window.
- Self-enumeration asks 33 questions on housing, amenities and assets and generates a Self-Enumeration ID that enumerators will use to verify entries during visits.
- Andhra Pradesh’s census chief said individual responses are confidential under Section 15 of the Census Act and not shared for RTI, courts or benefits, and he noted no bank, Aadhaar or income data are collected.
- Field teams in Bhopal reported frequent upload failures of self-filled forms that officials linked to wrong map pinning and SEID download errors, forcing manual re-entry and slowing verification.