The Centre has notified 40 questions for the population enumeration phase of the Census, including caste and Covid vaccination details. Enumeration in Ladakh and snow-bound areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand will begin September 1, with self-enumeration preceding it
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari launched the self-enumeration phase of India's 16th Census, urging public participation and assuring data privacy. He termed it the country's first fully digital Census and blamed the previous TMC government for delaying the exercise
The Census Commissioner assured that individual data collected during the upcoming Census will remain confidential and cannot be used for legal or scheme-related purposes. Self-enumeration and digital data collection will be introduced, with several datasets expected to be released by 2027
