ISLAMABAD:
The census tracking committee allowed the Sindh govt on Wednesday to nominate one among its provincial ministers as a focal person for a extra coordinated conversation so as to accelerate the continued nationwide headcount operation.
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal chaired the seventh assembly of the Census Monitoring Committee to evaluate development within the nation’s first virtual census actions, box operations and different similar problems, in accordance to a mentioned a press unencumber issued right here.
“The meeting decided that the Sindh government would nominate one member of its cabinet as a focal person for more coordinated communication so that the census operation could be moved at a faster pace,” it added.
During the assembly, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) leader Dr Naeem Zafar briefed the contributors in regards to the development within the census procedure. Iqbal mentioned on the instance, the federal government was once operating in collaboration with all of the provinces on undertaking a virtual census.
The minister directed the government involved to release an efficient media marketing campaign for projecting the continued census and developing consciousness some of the lots in regards to the distinction between the virtual census and the standard census performed previously.
The assembly was once attended via Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Chairman National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), PBS leader, leader secretaries of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and senior officers.
The construction got here an afternoon after the PPP had threatened to hand over the federal ministries, forcing the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led coalition govt to permit the provincial governments to get entry to the census tracking dashboards.
The determination to give get entry to to the provincial governments, particularly Sindh, has principally been taken to convince the important thing best friend to proceed status via the government and shun any 2nd ideas at a time when the rustic goes thru a political upheaval amid critical monetary crises simply forward of the overall elections in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
“It has been decided that the statistics as required by the provincial governments, especially Sindh may be included in the monitoring dashboard,” Chief Statistician of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Dr Naeemuz Zafar said in a letter addressed to the chairman National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).
The leader census commissioner added that the dashboard has already been deployed for leader secretaries, pronouncing the role-based get entry to of the similar could also be supplied to all provincial/regional leader secretaries, commissioners, deputy commissioners (DCs) and assistant commissioners (ACs).
Keeping in view the sensitivity of the topic, Zafar said, NADRA groups be directed to guarantee get entry to to the dashboard via March 15 to all of the DCs and ACs “at all census district level for broader involvement, transparency and credibility of this national activity of extreme importance”.
PPP Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had just lately threatened to hand over the ruling coalition over objections to the continued virtual census in addition to if the Centre does now not satisfy its guarantees of giving reduction to flood sufferers of Sindh.
With further enter from APP
