India sets 2027 population census dates for most regions

India’s population enumeration will run from January 25 to February 28, 2027, under a schedule issued in an official notification, with a revisional round set for March 1-5. The notification, issued by Registrar General and Census Commissioner Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, sets the census reference time at 0000 hours on March 1, 2027. Residents will have the option to complete self-enumeration from January 10 through January 24, before household enumeration begins. The notification establishes the dates for the scheduled population count; it does not provide a different reference time for the excluded areas. The January-February schedule covers most states and Union Territories but excludes Manipur pending further notice, as well as Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Ladakh. It also excludes snowbound nonsynchronous areas of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. The notification gives no dates for census work in those areas. It says the census will be conducted in phases to account for regions outside the announced schedule. The revisional round is scheduled to follow the main enumeration from March 1 to March 5. The reference time, 0000 hours on March 1, provides the...