Housing and Building Statistics (HBS)

DES collects information on the prices of building materials from various centres of Puducherry and Karaikal regions every quarter and forwards to NBO, New Delhi. The prices collected and published by the Directorate provide an insight into the variation in the cost of the projects over a period of time.

Quarterly Report on prices of Building materials and wages paid to the construction labour have been collected from rural and urban areas for the quarter ending December 2016 and sent to National Building Organisation, New Delhi