Census Notification 2025 - Summary
Census Notification 2025 – The Centre has notified the schedule for the 2027 decennial census, which will include caste enumeration. This will be India’s first caste-based census in 16 years, since the last socio-economic caste data was gathered in 2011. The announcement follows a high-level review chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
On 16th June 2025 The Government of India released the country’s 16th national census — and the 8th after Independence — will be conducted in 2027, with caste enumeration being included for the first time since 2011.
Census Notification 2027 – Key Features
- Use of digital devices by around 1.3 lakh functionaries.
- Involvement of 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors across India.
- Provision for self-enumeration (citizens can fill in data themselves).
- Stringent data security across data collection, transmission, and storage stages.
Two-Phase Operation
- House Listing Operations (HLO): Covers housing conditions, assets, amenities.
- Population Enumeration (PE): Captures socio-economic, demographic, cultural, and caste details of every individual.
