New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The first day of self-enumeration under Census 2027 in the national capital on Wednesday saw hundreds of persons including President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking part in the exercise.
The exercise, to be concluded on April 15, was kicked off in the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and the Delhi Cantonment Board areas.
According to officials, 1,000 people logged in to the Census portal and the app for self-enumeration by the evening, out of which around 500 completed the process.
“Officials visited the residences of the president of India, the prime minister and the vice president to assist them in completing their self-enumeration. The exercise will also cover other constitutional authorities and ministers in the coming days,” said a senior officer of the Delhi revenue department.
The entire process, being undertaken digitally, did not receive any major complaints of technical issues, he said.
Prime Minister Modi completed his self-enumeration and appealed to people to participate in the Census process.
The last Census of India was conducted in 2011. Census 2027 will be the 16th in the series and the eighth since Independence.
In other areas of the city falling under Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) jurisdiction, the self-enumeration exercise will take place from May 1 to 15.
Self-enumeration has been introduced in the current and 16th Census of India, allowing people to submit information through a Census portal.
According to a senior government officer associated with the work, all preparations for the House Listing and Operations (HLO) phase, including the formation of teams and training of personnel, have been completed.
In Delhi, the HLO exercise will take place in two 30-day windows.
The NDMC and Delhi Cantonment areas will undergo the exercise from April 16 to May 15, and the MCD areas from May 16 to June 15.
Self-enumeration is a secure web-based facility by which respondents can enter their information online in 16 languages before the door-to-door survey under the HLO exercise, officials said.
They said individuals can log in using the CMMS app or the official portal www.se.census.gov.in to complete the process, which is expected to take about 15-20 minutes.
The Delhi divisional commissioner will function as the census commissioner, assisted by the 13 district magistrates (DMs) at the district level. Apart from revenue officials, personnel from other departments will be part of the Census teams that will conduct the door-to-door survey.
Delhi has been divided into multiple ‘charges’ — 250 in MCD areas, nine in NDMC regions and one in the Delhi Cantonment — each led by a designated officer.
In NDMC zones, these responsibilities will be handled by additional district magistrates and chief engineers, with a separate ‘charge’ created for VVIP areas, including locations housing key constitutional authorities.
The cantonment will have its own dedicated officials, while in the MCD areas, the ‘charge’ officers will largely be school principals. PTI VIT KSS KSS
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