The Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population organized the fourth edition of instructor course 2019 for taking interim census at its headquarters in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.

Union Minister U Thein Swe, in his capacity as the Chairman of Interim Census Central Committee, delivered an opening remark on the course, saying that the instructors trained in four courses will be assigned in four groups to take interim census in 4,000 areas across the country by using mobile tables instead of paperwork in the past.

He added that instructors from the first course have taken census in Kachin, Chin and Union Territory ( Nay Pyi Taw), while the second course have been conducted at the districts of Kayah, Kayin, Mon, Taninthayi and Ayeyawady, and the instructors will lead the works commencing 11 December. District-level courses from the third edition are in progress at in Bago, Sagaing and Magway. They will begin taking census on 2 January 2020. The two-week course of fourth edition is attended by a total of 130 instructor trainees from Shan, Rakhine, Mandalay and Yangon to carry out census on 16 January 2020 after conducting district-level courses.

At the opening ceremony, Ms Nelida, UNFPA Deputy Representative for Myanmar, explained the ongoing assistance for performing interim census.—MNA (Translated by Aung Khin)