Census self-enumeration for the second phase will be open to residents of NTR district from January 10 to 24, 2027, district joint collector S. Ilakkiya said during a training programme for officials in Vijayawada. Residents will be able to register their details online through the Census portal during the 15-day window before door-to-door population enumeration begins.
Ilakkiya directed officials to conduct an extensive awareness campaign and encourage residents to use the online facility. She said the second phase of the Census would require detailed planning, coordination and accuracy, and asked officials to treat the statutory exercise with the same priority as election duties.
Information covering 40 questions will be collected through a mobile application, according to the officials. The district administration has been instructed to assign daily targets to enumerators across all 647 blocks in NTR district and monitor data collection closely.
The online self-enumeration period will be followed by door-to-door population enumeration from January 25 to February 28. A revision round is scheduled from March 1 to 5. The overall exercise is expected to be completed within the stipulated 55-day period, officials said.
Technical assistants will receive hands-on training in operating the mobile application, correcting block boundaries and handling self-enumeration. Field trainers and enumerators will later undergo comprehensive training at the mandal level, according to the district administration.
District revenue officer M. Lakshmi Narasimham outlined the schedule during the programme. State Census Operations joint director and CEO G. Prasanna Kumar explained the technical procedures, including mobile application operations and block demarcation, through a presentation. He asked officials to increase public participation and improve the self-enumeration conversion rate by drawing lessons from previous exercises.
The training programme brought together district- and charge-level officials, revenue officers, municipal representatives, master trainers and Census instructors from NTR and Guntur districts. Vijayawada RDO Vennela Sreenu, Tiruvuru RDO A. Kumar, VMC additional commissioner A. Ravindra Rao, master trainer Kolleti Ramesh, and Census instructors C. H. Venkataramana and V. Adilakshmi attended the programme.
For residents, the next official milestone is the opening of the Census portal for self-enumeration on January 10. Officials will then begin door-to-door enumeration on January 25, followed by the revision round from March 1 to 5.
