Residents of NTR district can submit their details online for the second phase of the Census from January 10 to 24, 2027, as district authorities prepare a 55-day population enumeration exercise across 647 blocks.
NTR district joint collector S. Ilakkiya urged the public to use the self-enumeration facility through the Census portal at sc.census.gov.in. She was speaking at a two-day training programme for district- and charge-level officials in Vijayawada, where preparations for the exercise were reviewed.
The self-enumeration window 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, district revenue officer M. Lakshmi Narasimham said while outlining the programme schedule.
According to the district administration, residents will provide information covering 40 questions through a mobile application. Officials have been asked to conduct an extensive awareness campaign so that more people use the online facility during the 15-day self-enumeration period.
Ilakkiya said the second phase of the Census would require detailed planning, coordination and accuracy. She asked officials to assign daily targets to enumerators in each of the 647 blocks and monitor the collection process closely. She also said the Census should be treated as a statutory exercise and given the same priority as election duties.
The preparations include training for technical assistants on the mobile application, correction of block boundaries and management of self-enumeration. Field trainers and enumerators will subsequently receive comprehensive training at the mandal level.
State Census Operations joint director and chief executive officer G. Prasanna Kumar explained the technical processes involved in operating the mobile application and demarcating enumeration blocks. He asked officials to increase public participation and improve the conversion rate from self-enumeration, drawing on lessons from previous exercises.
The training programme was attended by Vijayawada revenue divisional officer Vennela Sreenu, Tiruvuru RDO A. Kumar, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation additional commissioner A. Ravindra Rao, master trainer Kolleti Ramesh, and Census instructors from NTR and Guntur districts, C. H. Venkataramana and V. Adilakshmi.
The district administration’s immediate focus is to complete public outreach, train the field teams and ensure that self-enumeration and door-to-door data collection proceed according to the announced schedule before the revision round in early March.
