Around 31 lakh enumerators, who will all be government officials, will be engaged for the Census related field work and they will be paid an honorarium of ₹25,000 each. Representational file image.
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In a first, private technical staff will be engaged to assist government officials during the Census enabling the “release of Census data in the shortest possible time”, sources said.The Population Census 2027, the first phase of which will begin on April 1 and conclude on September 30, will be the first-ever digital census in the country where the enumerators, mostly government schoolteachers, will capture details through mobile applications on their personal phones. Published - January 27, 2026 10:50 pm IST
