KARACHI: General Secretary Pakistan Peoples Party Sindh and Head of PPP Census Monitoring Committee, Taj Haider, has said that he was receiving regular complaints of irregularities in House Enumeration in Karachi.
In a statement here on Saturday he asked the newly appointed Provincial Census Commissioner to check these irregularities to save the Census from becoming meaningless in its initial phase due to `political and militant pressures in certain areas'.
Taj Haider stated that the task of carrying out Census exercise was that of DDO Revenue in every Census district, which in Karachi are the respective towns.
He was of the view that the entire work should be centralized in the office of DDOs instead of the `Town Municipals Offices and sector and unit offices of certain political parties'.
Taj haider in his statement said that `It is a known fact that in most areas persons designated by a political party are accompanying the Census staff and instructing them to act as dictated by these persons'.
He maintained that there are numerous instances of many families living in a single multi-storied building being given a single number because of the known affiliation of the residents with PPP. There are also numerous examples of single families being given many house numbers due to their affiliation with the Party of those who are dictating the census staff.
`At many places empty plots and under construction roofless houses where no one lives have been allotted numbers and many inhabitated houses have been missed outright while their immediate neighbors have been given more than one number', Taj Haider added.
He pointed out that PPP and its Government wanted to introduce a transparent system of maintaining population records and preparing voters lists.
`Unfortunately additions and alterations were being made in notified Unions, provincial and national constituencies in almost all towns and especially in Orangi, Baldia and SITE towns. If this process was not discontinued immediately there will be no option left for the people but to reject the entire process', Taj Haider remarked.
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