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Islamabad, May 11, 2023 (PPI-OT): Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal has directed provincial governments to complete the ongoing field operation of 7th Digital population and Housing Census-2023 till Monday.
The Minister made these directions while chairing a Census Monitoring Committee meeting to review progress over the ongoing exercise of Census Field Operation. The meeting was attended by the Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque, Chief Census Commissioner, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), Dr Naeem uz Zafar, provincial Chie Statistics and other stakeholders.
During the meeting, Chief Census Commissioner appraised the Minister over the progress of field operation and the targets achieved by the PBS since the deadline had extended on May 1.
He informed the meeting that the Demographer Committee constituted in pursuance of the decision of 9th meeting of CMC for analysis is the demographic trends by studying the growth rate. According to him, the other factors in the abnormal blocks after detailed deliberations recommended opening those districts all over Pakistan for at least 10 days whose population growth is less than 1.5, while closing other districts above the average.
The Minister further said that there should be no controversy over the huge exercise as the country is already facing the worst crisis while directing all the stakeholders to use all their resources to make this exercise successful.
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