Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar 12: Director Census Operations (DCO) & Director Citizen Registration (DCR) for J&K and Ladakh, Amit Sharma, elaborated about the inventive and new features of upcoming Census 2027.
Sharma was addressing at two special events, one PSU Summit and second WhatsApp Meta Discussion Forum wherein he was exclusively invited as a key note speaker.
He was requested to share special features of upcoming Census 2026-27 like Self Enumeration feature as first-of-its-kind in Bharat, wherein citizens of the nation shall be privileged to fill their own data, also Census data to be recorded by enumerators and supervisors on their own devices, without usage of pen and paper, swift processing of Census data after its uploading in indigenous Data Centres which are Critical Infrastructure, as declared by the Government of India.
During the events, Amit Sharma described Census 2027 to be error-free, transparent and clean.
He invited top technology giants to participate in a maiden National Event on Census and AI Use Cases for it, which is coming-up in J&K next month in which top national experts shall be participating in a big way.
The gatherings in both the events comprised of Deputy CM of Andhra Pradesh, senior bureaucrats from the Government of India and different States, technology start-ups, PSU lead teams, policy makers, national & International Digital Governance Experts etc.
The DCO/DCR J&K and Ladakh expressed gratitude to the organisers of both these events for inviting him in a special gathering of experts to share views in these national discussion forums which helps in shaping-up the technological roadmap of the nation in future.
