Goa Gazette, No. 2526-12, 20 June 2025

Reg. No. RNP/GOA/32/2024-2026 RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410 Panaji, ²⁰th June, ²⁰²⁵ (Jyaistha ³⁰, ¹⁹⁴⁷) SERIES II No. 12

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

EXTRAORDINARY

GOVERNMENT OF GOA

Department of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation

Notification

DPSE/IV/Population Census -2027/1/2025-26/883 Date: 20-Jun-2025

In supersession of the Notification of the Government of Goa, issued by the Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation, notified vide No. DPSE/IV/Population Census-2021/2019-20/786, published in the Official Gazette, Government of Goa, Series II No. 8, dated 23rd May, 2019, the following Notification No. S.O. 2681(E) dated 16th June, 2025 issued by the Office of the Registrar General, India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi, is hereby published for general information.

Vijay B. Saxena, Director.

Porvorim.

Ministry of Home Affairs

(Office of the Registrar General, India)

NOTIFICATION

No. 2616 dated 16th June, 2025.

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. Suggestions are welcomed on e-mail: [email protected] 435 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES II No. 12 (EXTRAORDINARY) 20TH JUNE, 2025 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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