Bhubaneswar: The Union Cabinet , chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi , today approved a proposal for conducting Census of India 2027 at a cost of Rs 11,718.24 crore.

The Indian Census is the largest administrative and statistical exercise in the world. It would be conducted in two phases. In the first phase, house-listing and housing census will be conducted from April to September in 2026. Population enumeration (PE) will be done in the second phase in February 2027.

However, the PE in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh and snow bound non-synchronous areas of UT of Jammu & Kashmir and states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand will be conducted in September, 2026.

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