Kathmandu, Sept. 21 -- As the National Planning Commission and its Central Bureau of Statistics are all set to hold the 12th National Population and Housing Census from May 28 next year, a big question that the political and administrative leaderships are confronting is if it is possible to conduct the count in Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura, the areas that India claims too, and in what way.

The government is conducting the once-a-decade census employing more than 40,000 enumerators and 9,000 supervisors to carry out a nationwide door-to-door survey.

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Officials at the Planning Commission and the Statistics Bureau say since Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpi...