Kathmandu: Nepal’s statistical agency Corona Virus is preparing to start the National Census from May 9, despite the epidemic. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the government body under the National Planning Commission, has already started training for the Coordinator, Supervisor, surveyors, and about 55,000 volunteers for the census to be conducted every 10 years. Gathering people The agency is spending four billion rupees for the census this time.
A senior CBS official said that the corona virus epidemic will not affect the national census. CBS Deputy Director General Hem Raj Regmi told the official English newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’, “The census will not be affected even if there is a lockdown as the same members of the survey will visit a family and keep a reasonable distance outside the house. Can only be questioned. “
He said, “We are giving sanitizers, face shields and masks to the surveyors. Census work will be affected only if there is complete closure. ”
On Thursday, 152 new cases of Covid-19 in Nepal increased the number of infected to 277,461. 3031 people have died due to infection in the country. According to the 2011 census, Nepal has a population of over 26 million. A decade after the last census, Nepal’s population is estimated to be over thirty million.
