Meeting discusses 7th Population and Housing Census-2022

NAWABSHAH:

Commissioner Shaheed Benazirabad Division Rasheed Ahmed Zardari chaired the meeting of Divisional Census Coordination Committee on Saturday with regard to 7th Population and Housing Census-2022, the first-ever digital census in Pakistan.

Addressing the meeting, the commissioner said that the 7th Population and Housing Census-2022 was a very important task for which all deputy commissioners and committee members should fulfill their national responsibilities with honesty to make the census process clean and transparent.

He said that the census will be conducted in the light of objections raised on the previous census by provinces and political parties. He urged officials of the education department that data and information for the census will be collected through a digital system.

He said for this purpose teachers having knowledge of latest technology should be assigned duties.

It was decided in the meeting that committee meetings shall be convened every month till the issues of posting of staff for census, their training and other administrative affairs are settled.

Briefing the meeting Assistant Census Commissioner and Divisional Census Coordinator Syed Jeeandal Shah said, for help and security of civil administration during the census programme, police and Pakistan army will perform the duty.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 7^th, 2022.