Chandigarh, Sept. 17 -- The Punjab State Level Census Coordination Committee (SLCCC) on Tuesday held its first meeting to review and streamline preparations for the forthcoming Census operations in the state.

The meeting held under the chairmanship of the chief secretary was attended by the additional chief secretaries and principal secretaries of local government, revenue, rural development and panchayats, planning, finance and school education departments, while deputy commissioners and municipal commissioners joined the deliberations through videoconferencing. The additional chief secretary (ACS), local government, has been nominated as the nodal officer for the census-related activities in the state.

Navjot Khosa, director, census o...