Federal Minister for Planning Development & Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday directed provincial governments to complete the ongoing field operation of 7th Digital population and Housing-2023 till May 15.
The Minister made these directions while chairing a Census Monitoring Committee (CMC) 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.
It is noted that on May 1 the government had extended the field operation of 7th population and Housing-2023 till May 15, 2023. 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.
Accordingly, after approval of CMC the districts of growth rate less than 1.5 were closed all over Pakistan but on request of CM Sindh it remained open for enumeration from May 1 to 15.
