Administration Engaged in Census Preparations in Ludhiana: Teachers from ਸਰਕਾਰ-Private Schools Will Also Be Assigned Duty, and Nodal Officers Seek List.
In ਪੰਜਾਬ, administrative preparations for the census have started. For the area-wise census, the Deputy Commissioner has designated Nodal Officers and Assistant Zonal Officers at the ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ level and directed them to set up personnel.
In order to assign census duties, the Nodal Officers have asked the Assistant Zonal Officers for a list of teachers from ਸਰਕਾਰ, assisted, and private schools. For the census, the Assistant Zonal Officers have also begun requesting lists of private school teachers.
Assistant Officers Are Told to Send in the List Within Two Days
The Nodal Officers have given the Assistant Zonal Officers instructions to compile the list of teachers for the census right away and turn it in within two days.
Enumerators may receive up to ₹1,500 for each block.
The census workers would be paid up to ₹1,500 for each block of labor. The ਸਰਕਾਰ will cover this sum.
Official Declaration of Intention to Perform a Census
Additionally, the central ਸਰਕਾਰ announced that it would be conducting the Census of ਭਾਰਤ in 2027.
Operations for listing homes will start in April 2026.
The House-listing Operation (HLO), the census’s initial phase, is slated to start in April 2026. Population Enumeration (PE), the second phase, will thereafter take place in February 2027.
Boundary Freezing January 1, 2026 is the deadline.
All states and union territories are required by the ਸਰਕਾਰ to complete any modifications to their administrative boundaries (districts, tehsils, ਪੁਲਿਸ stations, etc.) by December 31, 2025. For the purposes of the census, the boundaries cannot be altered between January 1, 2026, and March 31, 2027.
