The process of census in Jharkhand under India’s first fully digital census initiative will begin from 1st of next month. At a press conference held in Ranchi, Census Operations Director Prabhat Kumar and Joint Director Satyendra Gupta said that the first phase will include self-enumeration from 1st to 15th May 2026, followed by door-to-door surveys from 16th May to 14th June.

They said the first phase will cover house listing and housing census, while the second phase, for population enumeration, will be conducted in February 2027. Around 75 thousand personnel, mostly school teachers, have been deployed for the exercise, and each enumerator will survey up to 200 households. Citizens can complete self-enumeration by submitting their family details on the <se.census.gov.in> portal, after which enumerators will carry out physical verification. Officials assured that all data will remain secure and appealed to citizens to actively cooperate with the census process.