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Cabinet approves Rs 11,718-crore budget for Census 2027; exercise to be conducted in two phases
Updated On: 12 December, 2025 08:11 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Around 30 lakh Census functionaries, including supervisors, master trainers, charge officers and district census officers, will be deployed. All of them will receive an honorarium for working on the Census alongside their regular duties
To deliver the digital Census, about 18,600 technical personnel will be hired for 550 days, generating 1.02 crore man-days of employment. Representational pic
The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the proposal to conduct the Census of India 2027, the world’s largest administrative and statistical exercise, at a cost of Rs 11,718.24 crore, news agency ANI reported.
Briefing the media on the Cabinet decisions, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Census 2027 will be the 16th census overall and the eighth since Independence.
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