A separate census to be carried out by the Northern Council

 Saturday, 28 December 2013 

The Northern Provincial Council is to conduct a separate census of the human and material losses during the war after the TNA announced its decision to reject the census carried out by the Census and Statistics Department.

The Council is to now compile its own data base on the losses due to the war.

Northern Provincial Councillor Dharmalingam Siddharthan has said the Council will work out the logistics to conduct the census.

The TNA has already announced that there were issues over the procedures adopted in gathering information by the officials conducting the census.

The Northern Provincial council has stated that the government was attempting to give low figures on the losses during the war through its census.