# Census 2027 begins
**जनगणना 2027 का आरंभ**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/census-2027/
- Chapter: [The Republic and its states](https://indianepics.online/chapter/republic.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 2026 CE – 2027 CE
- Where: Office of the Registrar General, Mansingh Road, New Delhi (28.605, 77.222)
- Tags: political, state-formation

## Summary

India's first census since 2011 opens with houselisting on 1 April 2026; it is the first digital count, and its second phase will also record caste.

2011 के बाद भारत की पहली जनगणना 1 अप्रैल 2026 को मकान-सूचीकरण से शुरू हुई; यह पहली डिजिटल गणना है और इसके दूसरे चरण में जाति भी दर्ज होगी।

## Account

Phase one, the houselisting and housing census, runs between April and September 2026, each state taking a 30-day window. The population count follows in February 2027, with a reference date of 1 March 2027, or 1 October 2026 in Ladakh and the snowbound parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand; castes are to be enumerated in that phase. Enumerators record data on a mobile app, and households can first enter their own details online in 16 languages. The census due in 2021 was postponed during the pandemic.

The count matters for the map. With Article 82 unchanged, the allocation of Lok Sabha seats among the states stays frozen until figures from the first census taken after 2026 are published, and this census is expected to be that one. On 17 April 2026 the Lok Sabha voted down a constitutional amendment that would have raised its maximum size to 850 and redrawn constituencies on the 2011 figures. PRS Legislative Research estimated that at the present size those figures would cut Tamil Nadu from 39 seats to 32 and raise Uttar Pradesh from 80 to 89.

## Sources

- PIB, Census 2027: World's largest census exercise begins with Houselisting and Housing Census, 1 April 2026 — https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2248021
- PIB, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India addresses press conference on Census-2027, 30 March 2026 — https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2246847
- PIB, Population Census-2027 to be conducted in two phases along with enumeration of castes, 4 June 2025 — https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2133845
- PRS Legislative Research, The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 — https://prsindia.org/billtrack/the-constitution-131st-amendment-bill-2026
- Constitution of India, Article 82 — https://www.constitutionofindia.net/articles/article-82-readjustment-after-each-census/

## Image

Census, TamilNadu-219 (year-2011). தகவலுழவன், CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACensus%2C_TamilNadu-219_(year-2011).jpg

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