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THE LAKSHADWEEP GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

VOL. LXI No. 15 TUESDAY, 08^th JULY, 2025/ 17^th 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.

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(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 16^th 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 India

in the Ministry of Home Affairs (Office of the Registrar General, India) number S. O.

1455(E), dated the 26^th March, 2019 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,

Part II, section 3, sub - section (ii), dated the 28^th 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.

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2. The reference date for the said census shall be 00.00 hours of the 1^st 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 1^st day of October, 2026.

[F.No.9/8/2025-CD(Cen)]

MRITUNJAY KUMAR NARAYAN,

Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India

LGP. Kvt. M-532/07-25/05