The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) on Thursday (January 22, 2026) notified 33 questions that residents will have to answer in the first phase of Census 2027, which will be conducted between April 1 and September 30.
While the notification published on January 7, 2020 for Census 2021, which was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and never took off, had 31 questions, the current notification has 33. The fresh notification splits the combined question on the type of floor, wall and roof of the Census house into three distinct questions regarding the “predominant material used in the floor, wall and roof” of the house.
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According to the government, this will be the first digital Census, the first to count caste and also the first where respondents will be able to self-enumerate through a yet-to-be announced portal.
Population Enumeration (PE), the second phase of Census 2027 where caste will be enumerated, will be done in February 2027. Questions are yet to be notified for the phase.
