Some 6,500 people who had fled to Assam from Meghalaya in the wake of the clashes in January, were enumerated by census officials in the relief camps in Meghalaya''s East Garo Hills district, Deputy Commissioner Pravin Bakshi told PTI.
He said while some of the refugees have returned to their villages, around 4,000 were still in the relief camps and would shift gradually.
Those refugees from Assam who had taken shelter in Meghalaya have already returned to their state.
Earlier, there were fears that these displaced people might not be covered in the census as they refused to return to their respective states citing security concerns.
The East Garo Hills administration had been making persistent attempts to instill confidence among the riot-hit people.
Some 50,000 people were displaced in the 9-day ethnic riots in January in which 12 people were also killed and over 2,000 houses torched.
In the second phase of the country''s biggest ever census, 5688 enumerators and 995 supervisors carried out the headcount in Meghalaya and the revisional round is slated to be concluded today. Enumerators in Meghalaya covered 6,839 villages, 22 towns.