Build the foundation right, says Amit Sharma to gear up Census 2027 teams

Jammu, Jan 21: Director Census Operations (DCO) and Director Citizen Registration (DCR), Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Amit Sharma said

Inaugurating a three-day training programme at Jammu for officers of the Directorate of Census Operations, Sharma shared several unique features of the upcoming Census 2027 and a detailed outline about the first phase of House Listing Operations (HLO) and Housing Census - Census 2027 to be conducted in J&K and Ladakh.

During the inaugural address, he said that nodal officers for each district would be designated from amongst the best trainees only, and hence, the level of understanding should be such that queries should be addressed from all possible quarters at the ground level by them.

Sharma said that this three-day training should be the strongest foundation for the successful conduct for Census 2027, which would be the first Census through digital means after independence.

He reiterated that it was a golden opportunity for achieving the goal of establishing ‘Census as a Service’ and encouraged all trainees to give 100 percent effort towards learning all concepts thoroughly to disseminate them further to the J&K administration officers, charge officers, and field functionaries as it is.

Sharma directed the trainees to take full benefit of the intensive training received by the two national trainers, who are currently serving as Joint Director and Deputy Director here, and whom they should ask and clarify all possible doubts and queries.

Earlier, he was welcomed by Joint Director Arun Kumar and Deputy Director Manmeet Singh Loomba in the presence of all senior officers of the directorate.

They thanked Sharma for taking several positive and visible initiatives in the directorate since his joining in J&K and Ladakh, and conducting several acts which are critical during the peaking time of Census 2027.