New Delhi, Dec 23: 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 Tuesday, said that the upcoming Digital Census 2027 would be a real game changer for the country.
Speaking during an Arohana 2025 – Growth with Impact, Government Summit organised by Deloitte in New Delhi over the last two days, Sharma said that the Government of India would conduct its first-ever paperless digital census since its inception in India, which would be backed by innovation and technology.
“It will have a far-reaching impact upon the Indian economy, demography, politics, and even the exports and imports happening in the nation,” he said.
Sharma said that the maiden digital census would 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 would help in faster and efficient policy making, corporate decisions, and global economy boosting.
He said that the data centres of the Office of Registrar General of India set-up in different geographical locations like Bengaluru, Lucknow, and Delhi were geared-up for this humongous data processing, after successful culmination of both the rounds of HLO and PE. Sharma shared a unique novel initiative of the upcoming digital census – ‘self-enumeration’, which means that people would be given the facility of filling in their information directly through the requisite application made for it, which would be verified during the visit of enumerators and supervisors at their respective households.
He urged people to become their messengers and supporters in successful conduct of Census 2027 and said that a big nationwide publicity campaign with star appeal and wide scale usage of social media tools like reels and short demo videos was also on the cards for creating mass awareness about this critically important census in the nation which would take place after a gap of more than one and half decades.
Sharma had been invited as a subject-specialist and a keynote speaker to lead the highly powered panel discussion around the theme of ‘India’s First Digital Census: Redefining Data for a New Bharat’. The other key speakers who spoke on the subject, along with Sharma, were former IT consultant, Election Commission of India (ECI), Neeta Verma, and Chief Innovation Officer, Deloitte South Asia, Sudeepta K, who also moderated the session. The organisers from Deloitte South Asia thanked Sharma for his presentation about multiple aspects of the upcoming first Digital Census 2027.
