world
population day
11 July,
2001
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| Bangladesh's
fourth population census starts
DHAKA: Some 250,000 workers across Bangladesh started knocking door-to-door on Tuesday to collect population data as the country's fourth census was kicked off. "For proper planning of the development schemes, realiable data on population and their status are essential ... We have designed the counting procedure keeping in mind that aspect," State Minister for Planning Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir told reporters. He said for the first time, the census workers would be covering certain areas of the population extensively, which remained almost uncovered in an earlier census, including street people. The southeastern hill districts, where two decades of insurgency by tribal rebels ended in 1997 following a landmark peace treaty, could not be covered adequately earlier, he said. Alamgir said "this would not simply be a head count, but something more. The census workers would collect data on 28 aspects of population, including income, employment, housing and literacy status." Nearly 500 million taka ($9.25 million) was allocated for the five-day census, of which 50 million taka was given by the United Nations Development Programme. The minister also speculated that the total population could exceed 130 million in the latest census, which was double the number compared to 1974. The country's three other census since independence in 1971 were held in 1974, 1981 and 1991. (AFP) |
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