KARACHI: Deputy Commissioners (DCs) of six districts in Karachi are reluctant for releasing stipend of Rs 46.65 million to 8,664 male and 3,000 female trainees of National Census 2017. The representatives of the trainees have also informed Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Commissioner Karachi about this issue on telephone. Talking to Daily Times, they said that after getting confirmed reports from Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) that it has already released these funds in February 2017 for disbursement, six deputy commissioner offices have expressed their inability for providing them with that money. They have alleged that the DC offices have remained reluctant to provide stipend money on one pretext to another and female trainees are among the worst. The officials of PBS have also confirmed the trainees that funds have been deposited into respective DCs’ accounts for disbursement. We have also received complaints on this matter and now it was the responsibility of DC offices to pay the stipend to the census trainees, PBS officials said. Under the sixth National Census 2017 process, expenditures for 37 days activity in Karachi will cost around Rs 1.54 billion, Habibullah Khattak, spokesman of PBS revealed. Earlier decision to induct women in census process has now been withdrawn even though women from education department were imparted in the census training. Around 90 percent of the survey force has been selected from education department Sindh government and 10 percent staff comprises from Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Karachi Water Board and staff from six district municipal corporations. Meanwhile, all coordination committees set up for the purpose shall act as vigilance committees in their respective jurisdiction in Karachi. Control rooms have been established at divisional, districts, assistant commissioners and chief executive officer cantonment board level. Each and every field officer during census job would get Rs 1,000 per day as allowance along with Rs 500 as food alliance and Rs 15,000 per day would be provided for transportation, Khattak has informed. The training of 68 master trainers has been completed and the training of education department staff would also been completed by March 4th. The Karachi administration has completed its home work for census 2017. Earlier national census had been conducted in 1951, 1961, 1972, 1981 and the last one in 1998.