ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): Spokesperson of Pakistan Statistics
Bureau, Habibullah Khattak said Tuesday that misinformation and
non cooperative behavior during the process of census 2017 will
lead towards the immediate penalty of 50,000 Rs and imprisonment
of six months.
Talking to PTV News, Habibullah Khattak said deployed
officers of Pakistan Army will hold the powers of Magistrate
and can fine the guilty without any delay.
“0.2 million army personnel will perform their duties in
conducting census exercise and one army man would be engaged with
an enumerator”, he informed.
He said that census is being conducted after a gap of 19
years, as the last time it was conducted in 1998.
He further said that population census is important, as
distribution of resources among federal government and provinces
under National Finance Commission (NFC) award and numbers of seats
in National Assembly and provincial assemblies are on the basis of
census.
To a question about overseas Pakistanis, he said those
Pakistanis would be counted who remained present in the country
during census exercise.
“A from 2A will be filled on sample basis after census
exercise completes in June 2017, which will give details regarding
migration, unemployment, fertility and disability,” he added.
Spokesperson of Pakistan Bureau Statistics Habib ullah
Khattak said that training of all masters has completed and
training of army personnel is underway.
He said that March 18 has been fixed as reference day and
whosoever is present at particular location on that day would be
counted for census.
He informed that those Afghan refugees who posses
residential permit will also be listed in the records.
Furthermore, Balochistan will be covered fully in phase one
while the remaining provinces will be divided into two phases, he
said.
He said PBS has appointed 639 enumerators in the Islamabad
Capital Territory (ICT) to undertake the census in 1278 blocks.