Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa announced that census is scheduled to start from March 15 this year.
“We are making necessary arrangements to obtain the required data relating to internally displaced peoples (IDPs) from both the Fata Secretariat and Nadra” he said.
Addressing a press conference at Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), Bajwa said the census will be carried out nationwide taking all the sensitive areas into full account.
“The government is formulating a policy for IDPs in relation to the upcoming census” the census commissioner maintained.
“The census in areas that have major security concerns will be carried out by military personnel,” said Bajwa.
The treasury has already allotted Rs7.4 billion expense for conducting the census, he said.
