Households in Uttar Pradesh will be able to submit their details online for Census 2027 from November 16, before enumerators visit their homes, news agency Press Trust of India reported, citing a senior official.The optional self-enumeration facility will remain available until November 30 on the official portal, census.gov.in The population enumeration exercise, including caste enumeration, will be held from December 1, 2026, to January 4, 2027.Uttar Pradesh Director of Census Operations Sheetal Verma appealed to people at a press conference on Saturday to participate in the exercise and provide accurate information. Enumerators will collect personal, social, educational and economic details from every household through a questionnaire containing 40 questions.This will be the first time households can submit their details online before an enumerator visits.
After the questionnaire is submitted, a unique Self-Enumeration ID, or SE ID, will be generated. Households must share this ID with the enumerator, who will retrieve their information through a mobile application.
Verma told Press Trust of India that self-enumeration was optional and enumerators would visit every household. "Those who do not use the online facility will have their details collected directly by enumerators," she said.People using mobile phones to fill in the form should correctly mark the location of their house with the pin-drop facility, Verma said. They can use the "Current Location" option while physically present at home.
The questionnaire will seek details such as a person's name, relationship with the head of the household, sex, age, marital status, nationality, religion, caste, disability, languages, education, occupation, economic activity and migration.The reference date for Census 2027 is midnight on January 4-5, 2027. The homeless population will be counted on the night of January 4.
The exercise will include people living on footpaths, under bridges and flyovers, and in other open spaces.The first phase, covering house listing and the housing census, was completed in Uttar Pradesh between May 22 and June 20 this year. Verma said individual information provided during the census would remain confidential under Section 15 of the Census Act, 1948.Preparations for the second phase in Lucknow have, however, been affected by the absence of staff from training.
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has written to the district magistrate seeking action against employees of more than 42 departments who did not attend census training across its eight zonal charges.The civic body also sought action against department heads for allegedly failing to release their employees for the training sessions. The departments whose personnel were absent include basic and secondary education, public works, health, irrigation, the Lucknow Development Authority, agriculture, forest and power, among others.The municipal commissioner, who is also the additional principal census officer, asked the district magistrate and the principal census officer to initiate action against the absent employees and officials responsible.
The online self-enumeration window will run from November 16 to 30, while enumerators will visit every household during the Census 2027 exercise.- Ends(With PTI inputs)