NOTIFICATION Census Rules

NOTIFICATION Census Rules

MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

(Office of Registrar General, India)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 16th October, 2026

G.S.R. 896(E). In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 18 of the Census Act, 1948 (37 of 1948), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Census Rules, 1990, namely:-

1. Short title and commencement. (1) These rules may be called the Census (Amendment) Rules, 2026.

(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Census Rules, 1990, in rule 3, in the Table, against serial number 5, for the entries under column 2, the following entries shall be substituted, namely:

“(i) Teachers of any educational institution of the Government, local authority, aided or unaided private bodies, societies or trusts.

(ii) Clerks or any official of the Central Government, State Government, local authority or establishment (including public sector undertakings, statutory bodies, banks, companies, institutions, societies and trusts).

(iii) Any person, as the State Government or the Union territory Administration may consider suitable, to perform the duties as an Enumerator.”.

[F. No: 9/79/2010-CD (Cen) P-1]

MRITUNJAY KUMAR NARAYAN, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner

Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide notification number S.O. 967(E) dated the 31st December, 1990 and subsequently amended vide notification numbers G.S.R. 589(E) dated the 19th July, 1994, G.S.R. 458(E) dated the 3rd July, 2009, G.S.R. 576(E) dated the 19th June, 2018 and G.S.R. 194(E) dated the 11th March, 2022.