Guwahati, May 26 -- Assam held a State-Level Conference of Principal Census Officers (PCOs) in Guwahati to review preparations for Census 2027 on Monday, which will be India's first digital census exercise.

The conference, held at the Assam Administrative Staff College under the chairmanship of Ravi Kota, Chief Secretary of Assam, focused on preparations for Phase-I of Census 2027, namely the House-listing and Housing Census (HLO).

The programme was organised by the General Administration Department of the Assam government in association with the Directorate of Census Operations, Assam, under the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs.

Senior officials, including Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, Regi...