House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building in a street or area, with the intention of making it easier to locate a particular building. The house number is often a part of a postal address. The term describes the number of any building (residential or not) or vacant lot with a mailbox.

House numbering schemes vary from place to place, and in many cases even within cities. In some areas of the region, including many remote areas, houses are not numbered but named.

House numbering was professionally gilded to the MPC by a skilled craftsman, however time has changed, so the manner in which these numbers are created and applied the modern day application means that the numbers are delivered with adhesive already applied to them and all you have to do is simply stick them to the assigned house. The new adhesive numbers are available in a range of colors including Yellow, Black & Golden, Red & white etc. The range of colors means that you have a choice of which to include on the front of your house, making them more pleasing but still keeping with the tradition.

The adhesive backing of modern House numbers mean that they are very easy to install time saving and less of interference of the house owner and these newly introduced numbering plates are more durable and moist free for a long lasting period.

While the listing of all territorial units of administration down to village level and the preparation of maps on which each unit of territory is demarcated help to ensure territorial coverage, one has to go a step further down to locate every household within the smallest administrative unit, for, after all the ultimate aim at a census is to ensure that the census enumerator visits every household and enumerates every person in it. For this, ideally, detailed village and town lay-out plans will have to be prepared showing important topographical details such as roads, streams, public buildings etc., and locate on it every house which should be indicated by a distinct number. It is doubtful if every village and town will have any such plan already prepared and maintained. Most areas may not have any house-numbering at all. The Census Organization will have to take the initiative to have up-to-date layout plans prepared and to see that the houses and households are numbered and listed. And

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