SIKKIM: Head count of Sikkim’s population for 2011 census to begin


FROM ZEENEWS.COM

The exercise for updating the population of Sikkim as part of the 2011 census will begin in April this year with as many as 1600 enumerators visiting the households to collect necessary details in this regard, according to the Directorate of Census (Sikkim) Joint Director D K Dey.

The enumerators will make a door-to-door visit of all households from April 7 to May 22 in order to collect details like the number of houses and people for cataloguing them on the national population register, he said.

The Directorate of Census has already conducted a training-cum-workshop for the enumerators earlier this month in order to gear them to undertake the challenging task of census in an efficient manner, Dey said.

The enumeration process about the identification of houses and the number of people living in each house will be a continuous process in the run up to the final head count of the state’s population to be carried out in February next year, the Joint Director said.

The 2011 census will be the 15th in the country, but only the fourth for Sikkim following its merger with the Union of India in 1975.