Special dedicated Web portal for self-enumeration during upcoming Census

New Delhi, July 07
A special dedicated web portal will be available for self-enumeration during the upcoming Census. It will be available for both phases of Census -2027.

In a series of social media posts, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India said it will be the first digital census in the country, and the data will be collected using Mobile Apps in English, Hindi and regional languages. It added that enumerators and supervisors will use their own mobile devices for data collection.

Gazette Notification for the Census – 2027 was issued last month, and all States and Union Territories have been asked to republish the notification of intent in their State Gazette and also appoint Nodal Officers for the Census.

The census will be conducted in two phases. In phase one, housing listing and housing census will start from April 2026, while population enumeration will be conducted in the second phase.
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SC to hear on pleas against electoral rolls revision in Bihar on July 10
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New Delhi, July 07
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission’s decision to undertake a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. The matter will be heard on Thursday.

A Bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi agreed to hear the pleas against the poll body’s decision to revise electoral rolls in the state. The Commission’s move was challenged in the Apex Court over the manner and timing of undertaking a special intensive revision in the state.

Several petitions have been filed before the top court claiming that if the SIR is not set aside, it can arbitrarily and without due process disenfranchise lakhs of voters from electing their representatives and disrupt free and fair elections.