‘Sixth house and population census to be held in March’

NAWABSHAH: The sixth house and population census operation would be held in March, which would be supervised by the Pakistan Army and it would continue for 19 days. This was disclosed by Provincial Census Commissioner Abdul Aleem Memon while addressing a meeting presided over by Divisional Commissioner Dr Waseem Ali. 

Joint Census Commissioner Farooq Ahmed, deputy commissioners Sanghar Umer Farooq, Shaheed Benazirabad Ghanwar Ali Laghari, Additional Commissioner Pervez Ahmed Baloch, Director Schools Shabbir Ahmed Memon, assistant commissioners and officials of District Education Department also attended the meeting.

Prov Census Commissioner said that it would be sixth house and population census operation after 1951, 1961, 1972, 1981 and 1998 censuses. He said that the 19-day process will include 15 days for population census and rest of the days for house census, which would require staff of 49000 persons for Sindh province. 

He said that the census questionnaire is prescribed to record details of family, number of family members, religion, language and other details. He said that census would ascertain ratio of exceeding country population, literates, illiterates, disables and basic infrastructure facilities. He said that it would also help in constitutional delimitation of assemblies and for allocation of funds and create jobs for jobless persons of the province.

He said that in Sindh, 29 administrative districts, 886 census charges, 4915 census circles and 38659 census blocks are created for which budget is allocated separately for each sub division. He said that Shaheed Benazirabad Division has 4487 blocks and out of this total Shaheed Benazirabad District has 1000, Naushehroferoze 1427 and Sanghar District has 1968 blocks. He said that allocation of census fund tunes to Rs14.5 billion and talks with the army are in progress.