India, May 15 -- CHANDIGARH

The self-enumeration phase of Census 2027 in Punjab concluded on Thursday with only around 1.5 lakh residents completing the online process, accounting for merely 0.54% of the state's population recorded in the 2011 Census.

With the deadline ending, enumerators will now conduct a door-to-door household survey across Punjab from May 15 till June 13. Officials will collect demographic, socio-economic and housing-related information from households during the exercise.

The self-enumeration process was conducted from April 30 to May 14 across all 23 districts of Punjab as part of the first phase of Census 2027, which is set to become India's first fully digital Census exercise.

Among all districts, Ludhiana rec...