Patiala News:Special stall set up for awareness about Census Phase-2 at Punjabi University’s Youth Fair 2026

A special publicity stall has been set up to sensitize the youth and the general public about the upcoming second phase of the country’s census (Census Phase-2: Population Enumeration) during the ongoing annual Youth Festival at Punjabi University, Patiala. The main objective of this stall is to make the younger generation aware of the importance of the census and ensure the active participation of every citizen in this national campaign.

During this, Census Department Officer Mr. Ankush Sharma, SI Grade-1, Prof. Vishal Goyal, Director, Punjabi University, Patiala, Census Master Trainer Nishu Sharma and Special Charge Census Officer, Punjabi University, Patiala Manpreet Singh Burail were specially present. They reached the stall and reviewed the awareness activities and directly interacted with the youth.

Through this stall, thousands of students, teachers and visitors arriving at the youth fair are being specially made aware about the important dates of the census. Officials said that under this phase of the census, the process of self-enumeration (self-filling of census forms on website: se.census.gov.in ) will run from 16.11.2026 to 30.11.2026. After this, the door-to-door census campaign will be conducted from 01.12.2026 to 04.01.2027.

The officials and volunteers present at the stall are distributing awareness materials (pamphlets and brochures) to the youth so that they can motivate their families and surrounding people to register accurate data during these dates.

Census Department officials said that the second phase of the census is extremely important for drawing up the country’s future plans, public welfare policies and development works. Youth are the biggest drivers of change in the country, therefore a platform like Youth Festival is proving to be very meaningful for the promotion and dissemination of this national work.

This unique initiative was also highly appreciated by the university administration and the dignitaries who attended the fair. The department has appealed to all the youth and the general public to keep a note of these dates of Census Phase-2 and make their valuable contribution to the development of the country by providing accurate and complete information to the enumerators.

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