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Part II—Section 1
Notifications or Orders of specific character or of particular interest to the
public issued by Secretariat Departments.
NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT
CONTENTS Pages.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT
(Law Officers)
Declaration of Central Government to Conduct Census of Population of India during 2027 .. 44 44 TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE [Part II—Sec. 1
NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT
(Law Officers)
Declaration of Central Government to Conduct Census of Population of India during 2027
(Letter No. E4189/L.O/2025-2, dated: 07.07.2025)
No. II(1)/PULO/19/2025.—The following Order of the Gazette of India, Ministry of Home Affairs (Office of Registrar General, India) New Delhi, the 16th June, 2025 is republished:-
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.
REETA HARISH THAKKAR,