News On AIR reported on 1 May 2026 that the Ministry of Home Affairs had opened the Census 2027 self-enumeration window in Rajasthan from that day. The same online facility also opened in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi area, Maharashtra, Meghalaya and Jharkhand. For Rajasthan, the immediate relevance is administrative: households get a digital window before trained enumerators begin house-to-house field operations.
The online self-enumeration facility will remain available till 15 May 2026. After that, corresponding house-to-house Houselisting Operations in Rajasthan and the other listed areas will be conducted from 16 May to 14 June 2026. This sequence places Rajasthan in the group where digital participation comes first and field verification follows. It also shows how a national statistical exercise is being staggered by state schedules rather than being run on a single uniform date.
The report said Houselisting and Housing Census field operations under the first stage of Census 2027 had commenced from 1 May in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. These field operations will continue till 30 May after completion of their notified 15-day self-enumeration period. In Bihar, the 15-day self-enumeration period was concluding on 1 May and house-to-house field operations were to run from 2 May to 31 May.
The self-enumeration facility introduced for Census 2027 has received an encouraging response, with around 82 lakh households using the official portal by 1 May. The Ministry described the digital approach as a milestone in digitising Census operations because it offers flexibility and convenience while retaining trained enumerator visits for data collection and verification.