Govt Fixes Obvious Map Error on Census 2027 Portal After Arunachal City Labeled as China’s ‘Medog’
2 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Apr 19, 2026 06:56 PM IST
Hours after a neighborhood flagged a obtrusive error on India’s official Census 2027 self-enumeration portal – displaying Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh as China’s ‘Medog’ – authorities corrected the map, underscoring the challenges of the upcoming digital census.
The problem surfaced when Group Captain (retired) Mohonto Panging Pao, a resident of Pasighat, tried to register on the Census official web site, se.census.gov.in. The location’s map interface erroneously labeled his city, in East Siang district, as ‘Medog’, a location throughout the border in China. Sharing a screenshot of the error on the social media platform ‘X’, Panging wrote: “Medog is a city in China! CEO of Google @sundarpichai is Indian! Even official Govt portals are nearly ceding our territory! Wants pressing intervention!”
In a separate submit on ‘X’, the Workplace of the Registrar-Normal and Census Commissioner of India knowledgeable: “A problem was talked about throughout Self-Enumeration…relating to map location in Pasighat, East Siang District in Arunachal Pradesh in the present day. The problem was raised with the map companies supplier, and it has been resolved.”
The sphere operations for the Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO), constituting Part I of the Census 2027, began April 16 throughout eight states and UTs, following the conclusion of the 15-day self-enumeration interval.
“The train can be carried out over a 30-day interval until Could 15, throughout which skilled enumerators will undertake house-to-house visits for information assortment. As a part of the digital strategy adopted for Census 2027, up to now round 12 lakh households have efficiently availed self-enumeration facility by means of the official portal,” a Ministry of Dwelling Affairs official stated.
Residents who’ve accomplished the digital course of are required to share their self-enumeration IDs with the sector enumerators, who will use a devoted cellular utility to gather information digitally to make sure excessive accuracy and quick processing, the MHA stated.
