A State-Level Conference of Principal Census Officers (PCOs) in connection with Phase-I of Census 2027 namely House listing and Housing Census (HLO) was held on Monday at the Assam Administrative Staff College, Guwahati under the chairmanship of Assam Chief Secretary, Ravi Kota. The conference was sby the General Administration Department, Nodal Department for Census, Government of Assam in association with Directorate of Census Operations, Assam under the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The conference was attended by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan; senior officers of the Government of Assam, Chief Principal Census Officer cum Director of Census Operations, Assam, State Nodal Officer, District Commissioners and Municipal Commissioners cum Principal Census Officers of all Districts and Municipal Corporations and Officers from the Directorate of Census Operations, Assam. It was informed that the Census 2027 will be India’s first Census in digital mode and will be conducted in two phases namely House-listing & Housing Census (HLO) and Population Enumeration (PE).
Phase one of the census will focus on houses and households, and not on individual persons. Information relating to housing conditions, amenities available and assets possessed by households will be collected during this phase. The House-listing and Housing Census will also provide the frame for conduct of Population Enumeration during Phase-II. The data generated through Phase-I will help both the State and Central Governments in planning housing, infrastructure and delivery of basic services more effectively in rural and urban areas of Assam as well as across the country. Updated and granular data generated through the HLO will support better planning for flood-prone areas, urban expansion, tea-garden areas, tribal regions and implementation of various social sector schemes across the State. Accurate information on housing and household amenities will also help in better targeting of programmes relating to housing, drinking water, toilets, electricity and digital connectivity in both rural and urban Assam.
