{"id":265145,"date":"2025-06-05T02:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=265145"},"modified":"2025-06-05T02:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:41:27","slug":"govt-announces-schedule-for-census-with-caste-enumeration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/govt-announces-schedule-for-census-with-caste-enumeration\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt announces schedule for Census with caste enumeration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi, 4 Jun:<\/strong> Census exercise with caste enumeration will be carried out with the reference date of October 1, 2026, in snow-bound areas like Ladakh and of March 1, 2027, in the rest of the country, the Home Ministry announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been decided to conduct Population Census-2027 in two phases along with the enumeration of castes, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The reference date for Population Census &#8211; 2027 will be 00:00 hours of the first day of March 2027.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For the Union Territory of Ladakh and the non-synchronous snow-bound areas of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir and states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the reference date will be 00.00 hours of the first day of October 2026,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The notification for the intent of conducting the Population Census with these reference dates will be published in the official gazette &#8220;tentatively on 16.06.2025, as per provision of section 3 of Census Act 1948&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last Census was conducted in 2011 in two phases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Census 2021 was also proposed to be conducted in two phases with phase I during April-September 2020 and the second phase in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All preparations for the first phase of the Census to be conducted in 2021 were completed and the fieldwork was scheduled to begin in some States\/UTs from April 1, 2020. However, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across the country, the census work was postponed. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, 4 Jun: Census exercise with caste enumeration will be carried out with the reference date of October 1, 2026, in snow-bound areas like Ladakh and of March 1, 2027, in the rest of the country, the Home Ministry announced on Wednesday. It has been decided to conduct Population Census-2027 in two phases along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}