Around 53,000 enumerators and supervisors have been appointed to do field operations for the first phase of Census operation in Haryana, a senior official said on Friday.
Describing Census as the biggest administrative exercise which is not only a head count of population but also complete process of collection, compilation, tabulation and analysis of data, Haryana Census Operations Director Neerja Sekhar said country's demographic, economic and social data is published on its basis. She asked the residents of Haryana to assist the collection of data by providing correct information to the enumerators, who would visit their houses from May one.

Census will be conducted in two phases. The work of first phase that is house listing and housing census along with preparation of National Population Register (NPR) of all residents of India will start in Haryana from May one, 2010 and continue up to June 15, 2010.

The second phase that is population enumeration will be conducted from February 9 to February 28, 2011, with a revision round from March 1 to 5, 2011.
Census 2011 would be 15th in India since 1872, seventh since Independence and fifth since formation of Haryana.