Bhubaneswar: Training of master trainers for the second phase of Census 2027 has begun in Odisha.
Around 40 officers are participating in the first phase of the training.
National-level trainers who had had received the training in New Delhi last month will now train 80 state-level master trainers. Subsequently, the 80 master trainers will pass on the do’s and dont’s to 1,700 census supervisors, a Census Directorate official said.
Around 1.2 lakh population enumerators will be trained in the next stage, he added.
“The training of state-level officers started on Monday and will continue till November 13 in two batches. The entire training programme will continue till December,” Director of Census Operations in Odisha Nikhil Pavan Kalyan said.
Following completion of the training programme, self-enumeration exercise will be held in the state from January 10 to January 24.
Door-to-door population enumeration will be conducted from January 25 to February 28, followed by a five-day revision exercise.
During population enumeration, officials will ask 40 questions related to the social, educational and financial status of people.
The first phase of the Census, covering House Listing Operations (HLO), was conducted across Odisha from April 1 to May 15.