Dimapur: More than 6,000 govt officials will be engaged in the conduct of Census 2027 in Nagaland.The census will be carried out in two phases.The first phase of house-listing operations will provide citizens an opportunity to enumerate their households through online self-enumeration facility from June 16 to June 30.This will be followed by verification of the self-enumerated data and enumeration of households.The second phase, scheduled for Feb 2027, will involve the population enumeration, during which population data will be collected across the state.The directorate of census operations, Nagaland, has appealed to all citizens to actively participate and extend their full cooperation in ensuring the successful conduct of Census 2027.Nagaland has completed the training of field trainers for all 17 districts as part of the preparations for the Census of India 2027.A total of 130 field trainers from across the state underwent a three-day residential training programme, conducted in four batches.The trained field trainers will subsequently impart training to census supervisors and enumerators during June 2026 acrossNagaland, covering 157 sub-districts, municipalities, and towns.The training programmes, held between May 20 and May 29, witnessed 100% participation and were successfully organised under the DCs of Dimapur, Mokokchung, Kohima, and Phek.