Islamabad
Asad Umer, Minister of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives inaugurated the National Census Coordination Centre (N3C) at PBS Head Quarter, Islamabad.
Dr. Naeem uz Zafar Chief Statistician, Mr. Ayazuddin, Member (C&S), Mr. Muhammad Sarwar Gondal Member (SS/RM), Syed Ejaz Ali Shah Wasti (Member NA) and Dr. Azizullah Khattak, (Member ES) along with senior officers and officials of PBS welcomed the Honorable Minister.
N3C is an important milestone achieved by PBS to monitor and control the activities of upcoming Digital 7th Population and Housing Census. It will act as a hub for centralized decision making with representation of all provinces/regions for coordination and monitoring activities of the Census 2022. The idea is conceived by the success story of NCOC. It will be headed by DCPC, through N3C, all Chief Secretaries, relevant provincial secretaries (Education, Local Government etc.), Board of Revenue, Secretary IPC, DG Military operation will be connected for prompt decision making and coordinated efforts for successful conduct of Census 2022. N3C will be connected with all Provincial Head Quarters along with 614 tehsil level Census Support Centres for progress reviews and centralized Evidence based Decision Making regarding ongoing field activities of Census-2022. Multiple Role Based Interactive Dashboards for progress review, trends analysis as well as GIS Monitoring of Field activities will be available online 24/7. It will be facilitated by IT Experts/Demographers for studying Trend analysis & Data Insights for informed Decision Making.
Chief Statistician, Dr Naeem uz Zafar, briefly presented the main features of 7th Digital Population and Housing Census, alongwith the achieved and upcoming targets related to Census process. He informed the participants that upcoming Census will be first ever digital Census of Pakistan by involving NTC, M/o IT & T, PTA, SUPARCO & NRTC. PBS has carefully planned the Census process by reviewing UN guidelines, World’s best practices, involving Demographers and Academicians and consulting stakeholders and provinces.
