Housing Data from Census 2011 released

STATE RECORDS MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN BASIC AMENITIES
GANGTOK, 11 April: Sikkim has recorded an improvement in the coverage of drinking water, dwelling units, latrine facilities, communication, and lighting according to the Housing Data of the Census of India- 2011 released officially by the Directorate of Census Operations, Sikkim for the State today. [For complete details read NOW! dated 16 March 2012].
PIB Gangtok Director, CK Dorjee, who was present as the chief guest, released the data today.
In his power-point presentation, Joint Director Census Operations Sikkim, Dr DK Dey informed that the number of houses in Sikkim was 169,022 which included 115,395 in rural and 53,627 in urban areas and the total number of households in the state was 128,131, which includes 92,370 in rural and 35,761 in urban areas. He added that the housing data consists of the number of houses, households, the condition of the census houses, amenities available and assets.
Dr Dey mentioned that the objective of this census was to know the condition of the houses, amenities available to the households and assets possessed by the households. He mentioned that Sikkim has shown a tremendous improvement in different areas of its coverage compared to the 2001 census. He stated that Sikkim has become urbanized in banking facilities, improvement in communication and mode of transport. He informed that in tap drinking water source, Sikkim stood on the fifth position in the country after Chandigarh, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh and Goa.
The PIB Director stated that the population census provides valuable information about the land and its people at a given point of time which are essential inputs required for planning and developing sound policies and programmes aimed at fostering the welfare of the country and its people. Mr Dorjee added that the data sources have become indispensable for effective and efficient public administration besides serving the needs of the scholars, businessmen, industrialists, planners and electoral authorities. He stated that the Directorate of Census has already released Provisional Population Paper-I &II, containing Provisional population of the state, literacy rate, sex ratio, Rural Urban Population, which was based on enumerators’ abstracts.