1st Census circular seeks boundary change details

RGI ASKED THE FIELD OFFICES TO SEND DETAILS OF CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES IN STATES AND UTs SINCE 2010

- Neeraj Chauhan

The Registrar General of India (RGI) has issued the first circular for Census 2027, directing field offices across states and UTs to send details of changes in administrative boundaries since 2010 and ensure that such changes, down to the wardand village-level are updated ahead of the Census.

In the Circular No. 1 of Census 2027, titled “planning for the Census 2027Jurisdictional changes and lists of districts, tehsils/talukas/CD Blocks, towns and villages”, issued last week the registrar general and census commissioner of India, Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, wrote that “the basic purpose of the census being enumeration of all individuals in the country without any omission or duplication, preparation of a complete and updated list of all territorial entities in the entire country well in advance of the next census is required” and set December 31, 2025, as the deadline for freezing the boundaries.

Census 2027, for which field exercise will formally begin from April 1 next year, was announced by the ministry of home affairs (MHA) in June this year. A notification for intent to conduct the decadal exercise was issued on June 16.