Close to 1.2 million houses without men

Tuesday, 06 November 2012 

The Census and Statistics Department says that women chief occupants in 1,173,000 houses in the country. There are 5.1 million housing units in the country. Therefore, 23% of the houses in the country are headed by women.

It is revealed that a large number of women have been widowed due to the war, due to natural causes, committing suicide and even due to desertion.

The situation in most of these families it is learnt is in an unsatisfactory level. The government has failed to implement any welfare measure for these families.