Senator Taj Haider of the Pakistan People’s Party presented his book “Mardam Shumari 2017, Sindh ka Muqadma (Census 2017: The Case of Sindh) to Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the Bilawal House today. The Book contains a preface by the PPP Chairman and an introductory note by the Chief Minster Sindh.
The Book points out that Census 2017 carried out on de-Jure methodology did not count persons who had migrated into Sindh from other provinces. It also includes pages from the four yearly Multi Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) done with the support of UNICEF which puts the average family size in Sindh at 7.2 persons per family as against 5.57 persons per family obtained in Census 20117.It may be noted that the onetime use of provisional figures of Census 2017 for General Elections 2018 was allowed by the 24th Amendment which remained stuck in the Senate for more than 4 months. An agreement for correcting the figures through recounting in 5 % of population blocks on the actual number of persons present in a household (de-facto basis) was signed by Parliamentary Leaders of all political parties in the Senate which made the passage of 24th Amendment possible.
Taj Haider documents all the hurdles that were created in the implementation of that signed agreement by the Government of PML (N) which resulted in further complicating the issue and denying the people of Sindh their due rights of being correctly counted.
For all those who want to understand the important but very controversial issue of national census the book by Taj Haider is a must read.
Taj Haider has dedicated his book to late Comrade Latif Mughal who till his last breath remained a devoted PPP worker.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/25316/
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