The first phase of Census 2027 in Delhi, which started in the New Delhi district last week, picked up pace on Monday (April 20, 2026) as enumerators began a door-to-door survey for the House Listing and Housing Census.
The exercise commenced on April 16 in areas under the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Delhi Cantonment jurisdictions. It comprises two stages — physical mapping and geotagging of houses, and a door-to-door survey. An official said the first stage has been completed and the exercise is likely to be concluded by May 15.
On Monday afternoon, teams of enumerators — all government school teachers — fanned out into various localities in the New Delhi district.
At Sanjay Camp, a jhuggi-jhopri (JJ) colony in Chanakyapuri, 10 enumerators have been assigned to cover 2,332 households.
After finishing their school duties in Moti Bagh and Bapu Dham, the teachers arrived at the colony around 2.30 p.m. They began the survey, entering responses into the Housing Listing Operations mobile application on their smartphones. Each enumerator is required to survey 10 households daily.
