New Delhi, Jan 17:: Director Census Operations (DCO) and Director Citizen Registration (DCR), Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Amit Sharma, on Saturday, termed the Census 2027 as the founding pillar of Viksit Bharat.
During the 6th Digital Transformation Summit and Awards organised by Governance Now Group in the National Capital, New Delhi, he elaborated about the unique and novel features of the upcoming Digital Paperless Census 2027 and called it the founding pillar of Viksit Bharat.
Sharma was exclusively invited as a keynote speaker and a special guest as an e-Governance expert to share his perspectives about the upcoming Census 2027.
He was requested to talk on the topic of ‘Building Digital-First Governance’.
Sharma shared special features of the upcoming Census 2026-27, like self enumeration facility for the citizens to fill their own data using Geo-tagging feature, 100 percent paperless census to be recorded by enumerators and supervisors on their own devices in unique application developed by C-DAC for it, fast processing of Census data in indigenous Data Centres of ORGI and earliest release of reports thereafter.
He said it would be error-free, transparent, and clean data Census with the extensive usage of technology and e-Governance tools, Census as a Service (CaaS) feature declared by the Government of India for the upcoming Census and many others.
It was highly appreciated by the gathering comprising senior bureaucrats, technology specialists, PSU lead teams like C-DAC, NICSI, IT giants, policy makers, and national digital governance awardees.
Sharma, apart from sharing the novelties of the upcoming Census in the nation, also described it as an important founding pillar of Viksit Bharat Mission of the Centre, which would have a far-reaching impact upon the Indian economy, demography and politics and would also help in redefining the EXIM Policy of the nation.
He also utilised this opportunity to request all the audience members to become active messengers of the first-of-its-kind Digital Census, which was going to take place in India since the inception of Census activity, much earlier than becoming an independent nation in 1947, being the second most populous nation and largest democracy of the world.
Sharma also invited Governance Now Group to take a lead in organising the first national-level Census Awareness-cum-Sensitisation Programme in J&K amongst all states and UTs, wherein top experts on the subject could be invited to shed light over varied aspects of the upcoming Census 2026-27 for the general public awareness, thereby highlighting the importance and criticality of participation in the same.
In the last phase of this national event, top e-Governance related practices all across the country were duly recognised and awarded wherein Sharma’s recent role as ICT Secretary Mizoram was also highly appreciated especially recalling his initiatives in introducing e-Offiice, Bhashini, DigitLocker, Mizo Fibre Grid Network Project and many alike IT initiatives which had never seen light of day in that part of the nation previously.
He also joined the J&K team in receiving an e-Governance related award in the Rural Development sector.
The packed-house gathering and the organising team thanked Sharma for his eloquent address during the summit, enlightening everyone there about the novel features of Census 2027 and they in-turn, assured him towards becoming active stakeholders for fully backing-up upcoming Digital Census led by Ministry of Home Affairs through Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India in the coming months all across country till its culmination in February 2027.
