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 operations, Punjab, made a detailed presentation on the census process, its legal framework, census calendar and ongoing preparatory measures. Discussions were held on rural-urban classification norms, concepts of outgrowth and urban agglomeration, map-related matters and the upcoming pre-test of digital Census 2027 in selected districts - Jalandhar, Amritsar and Malerkotla. The chief secretary directed the DCs to finalise jurisdictional frameworks and establish dedicated census cells at district and corporation levels for effective monitoring. He also instructed strict adherence to guidelines issued by the directorate of census operations and stressed that administrative boundaries must be finalised by December 31, 2025....