Chandigarh, May 8 (IANS) Director of Census Operations, Haryana, Lalit Jain, on Friday conducted a detailed review of the preparations for the upcoming Census operations in Gurugram.​

The meeting was attended by Deputy Commissioner Uttam Singh, as well as senior officers, including tehsildars, and representatives from Municipal Corporation Gurugram and Municipal Corporation Manesar.​

Addressing the meeting, Jain directed that the actual Census work should commence at the earliest.​

He informed that the house-listing maps and other preliminary preparations for the Census had already been completed and that it is now necessary to accelerate field-level work.​

He appealed to all enumerators and supervisors to report for duty on time, stating that the Census is an extremely important task for nation-building.​

He further said that the department stands firmly with the employees in carrying out this work.​

Jain stated that, given the favourable weather conditions, the Census work should be expedited to be completed within the stipulated timeline.​

He also appealed to representatives of Resident Welfare Associations to allow Census personnel entry into their societies and premises and extend full cooperation in the Census operations.​

He also reminded that refusing to provide information to Census personnel, furnishing incorrect information, or failing to cooperate with Census work is a punishable offence under the law.​

On this occasion, Deputy Commissioner Uttam Singh also directed officials to initiate Census work without delay and stated that its progress would be reviewed weekly to ensure timely and effective completion.​

The Census 2027, the world’s largest census exercise, began on April 1.​

The Government of India has commenced Phase I of Census 2027, house listing and housing census, marking the beginning of the country’s largest administrative and statistical exercise.​

This is India’s first-ever digital data capture and self-enumeration exercise.​

The national enumeration exercise was initiated by enumerating President Droupadi Murmu through self-enumeration, upholding the proud tradition of commencing the national count with the First Citizen of India.​

–IANS

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