Lakshadweep Gazette, No. 15, 08 July 2025

1 THE LAKSHADWEEP GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

VOL. LXI No. 15 TUESDAY, 08th JULY, 2025/ 17th ASHADA, 1947 (SAKA)

LAKSHADWEEP ADMINISTRATION

(DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING, STATISTICS & TAXATION)

KAVARATTI - 682 555

F.No.77/01/2025 PS&T(Stat) Dated:04.07.2025

NOTIFICATION

The attached Notification of Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Home Ministry, New Delhi, India, S.O.2681(E), dated 16 June, 2025 is hereby republished in the Gazette.

Sd/- (GAURAV SINGH RAJAWAT, IAS) Secretary (Planning, Statistics & Taxation) U.T. of Lakshadweep

MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

(OFFICE OF REGISTRAR GENERAL, INDIA)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 16th June 2025

S.O.2681 (E):- In exercise of the power conferred by section 3 of the Census Act, 1948 (37 of 1948), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of Indiain the Ministry of Home Affairs (Office of the Registrar General, India) number S. O. 1455(E), dated the 26th March, 2019 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub - section (ii), dated the 28th March 2019, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby declares that a census of the population of India shall be taken during the year 2027. 2 THE LAKSHADWEEP GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 2. The reference date for the said census shall be 00.00 hours of the 1st day of March, 2027, except for the Union Territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the States of Himachal Predesh and Uttarakhad.

3. In respect of the Union Territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the States of Himachal Predesh and Uttarakhand, the reference date shall be 00.00 hours of the 1st day of October, 2026.

[F.No.9/8/2025-CD(Cen)] MRITUNJAY KUMAR NARAYAN, Registrar General and Census Commissioner, IndiaLGP. Kvt. M-532/07-25/05