Patna: The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) headquarters-level census coordination committee, chaired by municipal commissioner Yashpal Meena, reviewed house-listing and housing census drive currently underway for Census 2027. During meetings held on Friday and Saturday with officials from the New Capital Circle (NCC), Patliputra, Bankipore and Kankarbagh circles, the committee addressed critical technical challenges hindering progress at the field-level.The primary focus of the meeting was the resolution of issues related to data entry through the mobile application, where trainers provided live demonstrations and hands-on guidance to enumerators and supervisors to ensure error-free data entry and uploading.Recent progress reports within the PMC jurisdiction indicate that while census work has been completed in 13 House Listing Blocks (HLB) and it is nearing end in 2,039 others, the committee has issued strict directives for approximately 900 blocks where the pace of work was found to be slow.The operation involves 2,986 enumeration blocks across 75 wards, overseen by executive officers acting as charge census officers. This distribution includes 637 blocks in NCC, 553 in Patliputra, 527 in Azimabad, 495 in Kankarbagh, 464 in Bankipore and 310 in Patna City. To ensure the integrity of the door-to-door data collection, the PMC has deployed 563 supervisors to coordinate the efforts of individual enumerators assigned to each block.
