New Delhi, June 16 -- The The house-listing exercise under the first phase of Census 2027 concluded in Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) areas on Sunday, with enumerators covering more than 5.5 million households, officials said.

The exercise, which began on May 16, lays the groundwork for the population enumeration scheduled for February 2027.

According to provisional data shared by authorities, the exercise recorded 23,078,796 people as usual residents of Delhi. Officials, however, stressed that the final population figure will emerge only after population enumeration, the second phase of Census 2027.

Enumerators covered 7,598,982 census houses and 5,498,560 households through 45,863 house-listing blocks (HLBs), each comprising ar...