Collection of district-level infra data to begin after Census phase 1 completion

‘For the first time, data will he collected through a mobile application’

- MPOST BUREAU

Two months after the first phase of the Census gets over, local bodies’ government officials will collect granular data on civic amenities across 784 districts to come up with the country’s District Census Handbook, or DCHB, containing a comprehensive record of civic infrastructure at the village and town level.

In a letter to all states and Union Territories, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, has asked them to commence the fieldwork for the handbook two months after the completion of the first phase of the Census 2027 -- the Houselisting and Housing Census -- and to complete it within 30 days.