Odisha to Launch Phase-1 of Digital Census House Listing on April 16

• Odisha's first phase of Census House Listing Operations (HLO) to run from April 16 to May 15 across all 30 districts.
• Over 1 lakh trained enumerators and 17,282 supervisors will collect data from households using a mobile application.
• Citizens can self-enumerate online from April 1 to April 15; data will be verified by enumerators.
• Sudarshan Pattnaik, renowned sand artist, will be the brand ambassador for the Census program.
• This marks India's first digital Census, with the second phase (population enumeration) scheduled for February 9-28, 2027.