ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is likely to complete its initial work on delimitation by the end of this March.
According to an official of ECP, the respective committees have been working on delimitation with given tasks and deadlines.
He said that Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) had already provided maps of census charges and circles as well as the maps of urban and rural blocks besides providing census results up to block level in both soft and hard form.
The data has been submitted to the Central office of ECP in Islamabad and at all provincial office of the commission.
The PBS has established special cell for the compilation of election related data so that it might be timely provided to the ECP to continue its work on delimitation of constituencies without any hurdle.
It is pertinent to mention here that the country was divided into 163,541 blocks to conduct the 6th Population and Housing Census smoothly.
According to provisional results, the population of these blocks was recorded at 207774520.
The population of 21577 blocks of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was recorded at 30523371 individuals while there was population of 5001676 in 4098 blocks of FATA.
Similarly, the population in 87006 blocks of Punjab was 110012442 individuals where as in 39139 blocks it was recorded 47886051, in 10207 blocks of Balohistan there was population of 12344408 individuals whereas in 1514 blocks of Islamabad, the population consisted of 2006572 individuals.
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