POINT TAKEN: Finally, India Counts Again, Welcome Census 2027

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27 Apr 2026

After seventeen years, the republic is ready to listen

India's last census was conducted in 2011. An entire generation has grown, moved, and resettled in the silence since. The welfare schemes, hospital budgets, and school allocations of seventeen years have rested on projections, careful but not counted. Census 2027 ends that silence. For Jammu and Kashmir, standing today at a genuine threshold of development, accurate data is not a bureaucratic formality. It is the foundation on which every hospital, every classroom, and every water scheme of the next decade will be built. When the enumerator arrives, open your door. Every person counted is a voice the state can no longer overlook. Welcome, Census 2027.