ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar Friday directed Statistics Division and Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) that every effort should be made to ensure credible and transparent national census.
All necessary steps must be taken to comply with the deadline of March 15, 2017 to start the 6th National Census as decided by the Council of Common Interests (CCI), he said in a statement.
The CCI in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif here Friday, agreed to start Pakistan's 6th Population and Housing Census on March 15, 2017.
The minister directed Statistics Division to carry out thorough consultations with all the stakeholders, including provincial governments, to ensure effective coordination for the census.
The minister highlighted that reliable data gathered from the census would play a vital role in adequate planning, policy-building, and effective delivery of services to the people.
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