Addressing the First National Steering and Coordination Committee meeting for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in the capital on Tuesday, Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said that availability of credible civil data served as the base for credible planning of the society.
The minister said that data registration of population from important occasions such as child birth, marriages, education, health, deaths and others is essential for the strategic planning. He said ICT technology in this regard offers state-of-the-art facility to build up a credible database.
