Importance of census
SHIKARPUR: Conducting an actual census is an important tool for a country to identify the exact number of the population. It is a process of counting of the number of children, men, women, able and disabled people of a country by the government for various economic and other development models. However, Article 51(5) of the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 states: “The seats in the National Assembly shall be allocated to each province, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and the federal capital on the basis of population in accordance with the last preceding census, officially published.”
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Accordingly, the seats of the National Assembly are distributed on the basis of population. Any federal or provincial seat of university is given to the youth in accordance with the population of their province or city. Even, the quota for recruitment to government jobs is given under the number of population through census. Similarly, socioeconomic facts and figures are also required and they are counted in census. It means that from educational background to political arena and from social life to economic strategies, population is necessary to be counted under the process of the census.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2017.
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