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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

No. 4594/SS/SO/C4/2025.

Puducherry, dated 01st July 2025.

The Government of India, Gazette No. 2616, dated 16-06-2025, regarding

Census of the population is republished for information of the public.

KRISHNA MOHAN UPPU, I.A.S.,

Secretary to Government (Revenue).

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MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

(OFFICE OF REGISTRAR GENERAL, INDIA)

New Delhi, the 16th June, 2025.

NOTIFICATION

S.O. 2681(E).— In exercise of the powers 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 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 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 Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

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 Pradesh 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,

India.

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