Census enumerators are conducting late-evening and late-night visits to locked houses across the Central City Corporation limits to ensure no household is left out of the ongoing House Listing and Housing Census exercise under the first phase of Census 2027.

While the exercise is intensified to meet the deadline, a large number of houses in the city have remained inaccessible during the day as residents are away at work or unavailable for other reasons. To address this, the Census staff have been directed to ‘revisit’ such houses during evening hours and continue the exercise till late at night, Additional Commissioner (Development) Daljeet Kumar said on Saturday. 

He said the late-night enumeration drive has been under way for the past four days and would continue until the completion deadline. To avoid errors, charge officers and Revenue Department officials have been asked to accompany enumerators and cross-check houses marked as locked before they are recorded as such in the survey.