A 6-day training workshop for District Field Trainers on Census 2027 has started in Patiala district under the leadership of Deputy Commissioner-cum-Principal Census Officer, Dr. Himanshu Agarwal and Commissioner Municipal Corporation, Pooja Sial Grewal. In this training, 2 master trainers Nishu Sharma, Senior System Analyst, Punjabi University and Daulat Ram, Lecturer, P.M. Shri Government Senior Sec. School, Ghanaur and Aman Kumar, District Coordinator, Census Operation Department, Punjab, Chandigarh are being trained on the second phase (population census) of Census-2027 to 72 field trainers in 36 (two batches) each.
The department informed that out of the total 72 field trainers deployed in Patiala district under Census-2027, 58 field trainers have been appointed by the Deputy Commissioner and 14 field trainers by the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation. These field trainers are to provide training to supervisors and enumerators at the Tehsil/Charge level. Two batches have been formed to provide training to these field trainers and the first batch is being trained from 22nd September to 24th September and the second batch is being trained from 28th September to 30th September 2026 at the Municipal Corporation office. During this training program, detailed information, practical demos and exercises were conducted on various important topics related to the second phase of Census-2027.
During the training, the master trainers hired for the work of Season-2027 in Patiala district told that the initiative of ‘self-enumeration’ was taken in this census, in which any citizen can count his house himself from 16th November 2026 to 30th November 2026. After this, the second phase of the census will be started from 01st December 2026 to 04th January 2026 as population enumeration, in which the enumerators will go door to door to do the population enumeration work and 40 questions will be asked to the citizens. The Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner, Municipal Corporation appealed to all the citizens of the district to fully cooperate in this work of census being conducted by the Government of India. Deputy Economics and Statistics Advisor Jaswinder Kaur, Vishal Sial, Superintendent, Census Cell Team Narinder Kumar, Clerk (Accounts), Bikramjit Singh Investigator, Kulinderjit Singh, Hemant Kumar Investigator and all field trainers participated in this workshop.