Census: Head count in AJK from April 29

MIRPUR: Census in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will commence from April 29, officials said on Sunday. A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting chaired by AJK Chief Secretary Sikander Sultan Raja in the state’s capital. A total of 2,800 mobile staff members would be deputed for holding the scheduled census across AJK, they said. The staff would be provided with five-day training, conducted by the master trainers from January 23 in Muzaffarabad, the officials said.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 9^th, 2017.