Union Cabinet approves ₹11,718 crore budget for Census 2027 December 12, 2025

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, has approved the proposal for conducting Census of India 2027 at a cost of Rs.11,718.24 crore, the Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said today.

Details of the Scheme:

~ The Indian Census is the largest administrative and statistical exercise in the world. The Census of India would be conducted in two phases: (i) Houselisting and Housing Census – April to September, 2026 and (ii) Population Enumeration (PE) – February 2027 (For the UT of Ladakh and snow bound non-synchronous areas of UT of Jammu & Kashmir and states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, PE shall be conducted in September, 2026).

~ About 30 lakh field functionaries w

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