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Nearly 6.40 lakh villages will be Training in 80 Thousand
covered in census
Batches
Conduct of the Census 2027 Comprehensive training is being

States/Union 7,092 Sub- provided to all field staff, including
36 Territories districts enumerators and supervisors,
appointed for the world’s largest
5,128 Statutory Towns digital census operation.

National trainers have
4,580 The Census 2027 100 been trained by experts. Trainers are tasked with
These master

Census Towns will be conducted in These National training approximately
approximately Trainers 2,000 45,000
have trained
6,39,902 approximately Master Trainers.

villages Field Trainers.
These field trainers are
currently providing training to

approx 80,000 batches

approx 31 lakh enumerators and
supervisors are being trained

All training materials have been
prepared in regional languages
to ensure that enumerators
and supervisors working at
the grassroots level can collect
high-quality data on time.

the decline in the country’s birth rate. For the first time just one week before the census drive was scheduled
in the history of Indian censuses, the 1951 census also to begin, the deadly COVID-19 pandemic compelled the
attempted to assess the accuracy of the population Government of India to declare a nationwide lockdown.
count through field-based re-verification. Since 1971, Consequently, the 2021 census had to be postponed
four censuses have been conducted at ten-year inter- indefinitely. India is now moving forward toward the
vals, culminating in the census of 2011. The census of realization of its resolve for a ‘Developed India’ through
2011 preceded the one currently underway. By 2021, the Census of 2027.
the nation was poised for its next census. Continuing
the unbroken series of decennial censuses dating back DIGITAL CENSUS: A SYMBOL OF THE
to 1872, enumerators and supervisors were enthusias- TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
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tic as they attended training sessions to launch India’s The Upanishads say “तमसोो मा ज्योोतितर्गगमयो, मृत्योोमागमतं र्गमयो’
16th census—this time as a digital exercise. However, —meaning, “Lead us from darkness to light; lead us

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