Digital Census 2027 will be real game-changer for country: Amit Sharma

Director Census Operations (DCO) & Director Citizen Registration (DCR) for the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Amit Sharma, has termed the upcoming Digital Census 2027 to be the real ‘game changer’ for the nation.

Sharma said that the Government of India shall be conducting its first-ever paperless digital census since its inception in India, which shall be backed by innovation and technology and it shall have a far-reaching impact upon the Indian economy, demography, politics and even the exports and imports happening in the nation.

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Sharma was also invited this week as a subject-specialist to speak at the national event, namely, Arohana 2025 – Growth with Impact, Government Summit, organized in New Delhi.

Sharma said that the maiden Digital Census shall help in fast processing of information, primarily based on Artificial Intelligence tools and automatic updating of data through an application developed for both Android and iOS platforms, which shall help in faster and efficient policy making, corporate decisions, global economy boosting, etc.

He also said that the Data Centres of the Office of Registrar General of India set-up in different geographical locations like Bengaluru, Lucknow and Delhi are fully geared-up for this humongous data processing, after successful culmination of both the rounds of HLO and PE.

He said a unique novel initiative of the upcoming Digital Census is ‘Self Enumeration’, which simply means that the public shall be given the facility of filling-up their information directly through the requisite application made for it, which shall be verified during the visit of enumerators and supervisors at their respective households.