Sri Vijaya Puram, April 1: The first phase of Census 2027 begins in Andaman and Nicobar Union Territory. The UT is in the first batch of states/ UTs where the self-enumeration under Houselisting and Housing Census i.e. first phase of Census 2027, has started on 1st April, 2026.
Ms Purva Garg, Director of Census Operations, A&N Islands and Deputy Commissioner, South Andaman along with her Census team consisting of Shri Chandra Mohan Joshi, Joint Director, Directorate of Census Operations and Shri Biswas Bhushan Dash, Assistant Director and other officers called on Dr. Chandra Bhushan Kumar, Chief Secretary A&N Administration to cover him under the first ever self-enumeration exercise being conducted in the history of Indian censuses on the first day of self-enumeration. During the process, the Chief Secretary was informed about the concepts of Census and the procedure of self-enumeration in details.