Self-enumeration option to be included in Census

Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday reviewed preparations for the Census, for which a formal notification will be issued on Monday, the Union home ministry said while reiterating that the upcoming exercise will have the option of self-enumeration.

- HT Correspondent

NEW DELHI:

The ministry said that Census 2027 will be conducted through digital means and that very stringent data security measures would be put in place to ensure data security at the time of collection, transmission and storage.

As reported by HT at that time, the government had issued Census (Amendment) Rules, 2022 on March 11, 2022 to allow self-enumeration online. Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai had also informed the Rajya Sabha in July 2022, as reported by HT then, that it will be the first digital Census with a provision for self-enumeration.

The office of the registrar general of India (ORGI) has already developed a web-based portal called Self Enumeration (SE) Portal, which allows the respondents to view and update the information of their households members. The SE portal, according to officials, will be closed for changes, a few days prior to the census exercise start date. The objective of the portal is to digitize the process of capturing the census data, as the respondents can update the details of their family members online without the help of an enumerator.