PESHAWAR, July 23: Speakers at the concluding session of a two-day training workshop for gender census asked the concerned authorities to fulfil their prime responsibility by holding the next census in a free, fair and transparent manner.

The workshop had been organised for officials of the population census organisation at the conference room of the office of the district coordination officer Peshawar, says a press statement.

Speakers on the occasion said that Pakistan represented a new paradigm as a nation for ensuring gender balance and enhancing women participation in all facets of life.

Chief Census Commissioner Khizar Hayat, Nausheen Mehmood and others said that efforts were being made to ensure gender equality in all walks of life to allow women to play their role in the development of the society and to bring prosperity in the country.

“It will be out utmost endeavour to provide detailed and credible data on women, as an integral part of development,” a speaker said and added that in addition to male enumerators, efforts would be made to appoint over 30,000 female enumerators for the census this year for the first time in the country’s history.