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Govt appoints Saurabh Garg as full-time MoSPI Secretary

May 31, 2024 8:00 am

Before Garg, the charge of MoSPI Secretary was held by GP Samanta till April 15, 2024.

NSC needs to ensure data dissemination on time, says Chairman Karandikar

January 05, 2023 2:08 am

The last meeting of the NSC under the previous Chairman Bimal Kumar Roy was held in June 2022. In 2019, his predecessor PC Mohanan had quit as acting chairman of NSC after delay in release of the employment survey for 2017-18.

As the great statistician CR Rao turns 100, a look at his extraordinary career

September 20, 2020 6:39 pm

Rao's work revolutionised fields of studies from business to medicine, anthropology to economics

Draft Bill proposes autonomy for National Statistical Commission, gives govt power to make final decision

December 20, 2019 3:44 am

NSC will have a Chairperson, five whole time members along with Deputy Governor, RBI, Chief Statistician of India as other members and CEA as ex-officio member.

With eye on improving quality of macro-economic aggregates, MoSPI to set up ‘National Data Warehouse’

June 11, 2019 3:30 am

On the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates, the Ministry said the revision in GDP estimates occurs when data coverage from administrative sources improves over time and these improvements get well documented.

From Plate to Plough: The farm-factory connect

June 10, 2019 4:36 am

Raising farm productivity is the first step to increasing rural demand and reviving the manufacturing sector

Before Govt blocked jobs report, stats panel search body tweaked in its favour

March 07, 2019 7:23 am

Earlier, the composition of the search committee, according to the MoSPI Resolution dated June 1, 2005, was: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission as Chairperson along with an RBI Deputy Governor and “two eminent persons.

Chidambaram on NSC resignations: One more institution has died owing to govt's negligence

January 30, 2019 3:22 pm

Chidambaram blamed the government's "malicious negligence" for the sudden resignation of NSC Acting chief P C Mohanan and J V Meenakshi, Professor at the Delhi School of Economics.

Women in workforce gravitate to services; overall participation dips

November 07, 2014 12:54 am

The debate over the decreasing number of working women in the country has increasingly gained traction in the last couple of years.

‘The 4% growth in employment is realistic and heartening’

July 31, 2014 1:38 am

Non-government employment as well as the number of independent enterprises have seen a sharp jump in the Sixth Economic Census.

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