Bengaluru: A four-day training workshop began on Tuesday for officers and staff of the Bengaluru South City Corporation ahead of the second phase of Census 2027, Additional Commissioner Rachappa said. He asked enumerators to be courteous in the field and to collect accurate data.
Rachappa inaugurated the workshop for district- and charge-level clerical and technical assistants at the CIMS College auditorium in Jayanagar.
Courtesy and accuracy
- Enumerators must wear identity cards and speak politely to residents.
- Details of residents and the number of household members must be taken directly from the head of the family or other family members, and must not be recorded on guesswork or while standing in public spaces.
- Religion, caste and social profile columns must be filled in with utmost care and sensitivity, and the confidentiality of the data must be maintained.
- Along with government employees, teachers and staff of private and unaided schools and colleges have been assigned to census duties.
Digital census
Shakthi Kumar, Joint Director of the Directorate of Census Operations, said Census 2027 is the country’s first fully digital census. Enumerators will collect data online and offline through the ‘PE App’ on their own mobile phones.
Schedule
- Self-enumeration on the web portal: January 10 to January 24, 2027.
- Door-to-door verification by enumerators: January 25 to February 28.
- Revisional round: March 1 to March 5.
Rachappa said technical issues, left-out areas and boundary overlaps found in the first phase must be resolved in advance through the HLBC portal, and that the process is being monitored at the highest level through the CMMS portal. The first phase, house listing and housing census, has been completed.
Bommanahalli Zone Joint Commissioner Satish Babu and census master trainers Ananya and Nalini were among those present.
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