LAHORE: The arrangements for conducting the 7th National Census were reviewed in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Bahawalpur Zaheer Anwar Jappa in the committee room of his office on Friday.
It was explained in the meeting that this would be the first digital census of the country with a usage of modern technology for census and building geo-tagging through tablets. Digital maps will be utilized for this process.
In the meeting, District Police Officer Syed Muhammad Abbas, Additional Deputy Commissioner Finance Farooq Qamar, Additional Deputy Commissioner Headquarters Sumera Rabbani and other concerned officers and officials were present while Assistant Commissioners of other tehsils participated through video link.
National Census on digital procedure
It was informed in the meeting that training and orientation process of master trainers, supervisors, and other arrangements have been completed. It was informed that the census would be conducted digitally.
On this occasion, Census Officer Riaz Ahmad said that every citizen of the country who has a cell phone and internet facility can be a part of the census and register their household members which will be further confirmed by the census staff on the spot.
