The Census 2027, which will recast the decennial headcount as a fully digital enterprise, will have at its heart the Census Management and Monitoring System, or CMMS – a dedicated digital portal engineered to orchestrate one of the largest administrative exercises in the world, news agency PTI said on Thursday.
Marking a decisive break from the paper-bound enumeration, the portal will replace clipboards and carbon copies with handheld devices, geotagged mapping tools and a centralised web-based command platform in what will be India’s first fully digital Census.
The bespoke software backbone, designed to…