New Delhi: The Centre has announced that the second phase of Census 2027 through a Gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Population enumeration will take place from January 25 to February 28 next year, followed by a revisional round from March 1 to 5.
According to the official notification issued by Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner, the reference date for the census will be 00:00 hours on March 1, 2027.
The notification also said people will have the option of self-enumeration from January 10 to January 24, 2027, ahead of the house-to-house population count.
The notification, issued under Section 3 of the Census Act, 1948, read with Rules 6A and 6D of the Census Rules, 1990, applies to all states and Union territories except Manipur, until further declaration.
The exclusions also include poll-bound states Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand, besides the Union territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.