The first phase of the Census House Listing Operations in Odisha will commence from April 16 and continue until May 15, with over 1 lakh trained enumerators and 17,282 supervisors visiting households to collect data.
Enumerators will ask 33 questions prepared by the Ministry of Home Affairs to the head of each household, including residential, non-residential, jails, malls, etc.
The operation will be conducted through field visits using a mobile application, with a self-enumeration provision available online from April 1 to April 15, allowing citizens to submit their information themselves.
Noted sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik has been appointed as the brand ambassador for the Census programme, with district collectors and municipal commissioners serving as principal Census officers.
This will be India's first digital Census, with data submitted online verified by enumerators during field visits.
