Population and Housing census:

Listing of buildings under second stage

Disna MUDALIGE

Listing of buildings under the second stage of Population and Housing Census 2011 will be conducted in April, said Census and Statistics Department Director General D B P Suranjana Vidyaratne.

Addressing a press conference held at the Information Department yesterday she said that each and every housing unit and building will be given a number in this operation. This number is fixed as a label on each structure.

All buildings will be categorized into three sections namely as 'housing units', 'collecting living quarters' and 'non residential units', she said. The main purpose of this listing is to identify the units where people live thus enabling visit to these places during census enumeration.

The listing operation is carried out by Grama Niladhari Officers under the supervision of the District Administration.

The Department expects to complete the listing operation before end of April.

The Director General requested the public to give their fullest support to Grama Niladhari Officers to carry on this task.

She also asked not to remove the label which will be fixed onto the building until the census is completed. She advised the people to inform the Grama Niladhari Officer of the respective area if a label was not fixed on their house by the end of April.

She said that the third stage of the census will be started in the third quarter of this year.