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Kohima, March 12 – The first phase of the 2027 Census, focusing on house listing and housing, will begin in Nagaland in July 2026, officials said on Thursday.Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, during a meeting in Kohima, said that the 2027 Census would be a significant and important exercise...

The Delhi Cantonment Board has launched the Swachhata Monitoring and Automated Reporting Tool (SMART) to improve the effectiveness and transparency in monitoring sanitation and civic services across the cantonment area.The Ministry of Defence stated that this innovative digital solution...

New Delhi, March 11 The upcoming census will collect data on the sex of the household head – Male, Female, and Transgender, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, in a written response, said the 2027 census will be conducted in two phases...

Amaravati, March 11 Andhra Pradesh Census Operations and Citizen Registrations Director J Nivas met Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and informed him that the house listing and house census exercise, as part of the 2027 Census, will begin from May 1.Nivas met Naidu at his office and...

New Delhi, March 10 The services of the 199 district agro-meteorological units, which provide crucial and detailed weather-related advice to farmers at the block level, will be discontinued by March 20, according to an order issued by the India Meteorological Department.According to the order...

New Delhi, March 10 Enumerators will "record the religion as stated by respondents" during the 2027 Census, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.In a written reply, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said, "In the Census, the enumerator records all religions/sects/beliefs as stated...

Relevance: UrgentSubject: Tribal Welfare ProgrammesCategory: Social WelfareJaved Rana asks PMU to act as monitoring backbone for tribal welfare programmesMinister for Tribal Affairs, Javed Ahmed Rana, today chaired a detailed meeting with the Project Management Unit (PMU) established...

On Monday, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of the Government of India, Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, reviewed preparations for the upcoming 2027 Census during his exclusive visit to the Directorate of Census Operations in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, located in Trikuta Nagar, Jammu...

Jammu, March 9 Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan on Monday reviewed preparations for the upcoming 2027 Census in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, urging officers and field functionaries to exercise utmost diligence while collecting information.He said that...

Itanagar, March 8 The Arunachal Pradesh government has announced that the house listing operations (HLO) for the 2027 Census will begin across the state on April 16, an official said.The HLO, to be conducted in the first phase, is an important part of the Census process, said Census Operations...

Today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah officially launched four digital tools and formally unveiled the mascots, Pragati and Vikas, which symbolize women and men for the 2027 Census in New Delhi. The tools include the House Listing Block Creator Web Application, the HLO Mobile Application, the...

New Delhi, March 5 – Union Home Minister Amit Shah formally launched four digital tools and unveiled the mascots – "Pragati" (female) and "Vikas" (male) – for the upcoming Census-2027 on Thursday.The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) developed advanced digital platforms to...

New Delhi, March 5 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday formally launched four digital tools that will drive India's first fully digital census, with the first phase starting April 1.Shah launched the Houselisting Block Creator (HLBC) web application for digital mapping using satellite...

Chennai, March 5 – The forest departments of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka will conduct a synchronized vulture census across the Nilgiri landscape on March 7 and 8, as a coordinated effort to assess the population of these endangered scavengers in one of southern India’s most important...

Amaravati, March 4 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday directed officials to develop a Family Benefit Management System incorporating 26 key data points.Reviewing the FBMS in his Assembly chamber, Naidu said the database should include details such as family...

Hyderabad, March 4, Telangana Commission for Backward Classes said that the census in Telangana should only begin after the central government includes 40 castes in the central OBC list.Chairman of the Commission, G. Niranjan, has written a letter to Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao...

Shimla, March 3 The Himachal Pradesh government has declared snakebite envenomation (poisoning) a notifiable disease in the state, in line with the National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Snakebite Envenoming (NAPSE) in India by 2030, a statement issued here on Tuesday said.A state...

Hyderabad, March 3 Telangana Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao convened a high-level meeting with the District Collectors on Tuesday to outline the roadmap for the upcoming Census enumeration process.The meeting focused on the first phase of Census operations, which will commence across the...

Hyderabad, March 3 The first phase of the 2027 Census will begin across Telangana on May 11 this year with House Listing Operations, a top official said on Tuesday.Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, along with the Director of Census Operations, Telangana, Bharathi Holikeri, conducted a...

In Pathanamthitta/Thiruvananthapuram, on February 25, Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala claimed that government officials in the CMO obtained personal details of government employees and pensioners to send messages about the state government's achievements.While not denying Chennithala's...