For 3 months,Haryana awaiting Central nod to make census report

Joint Director Economic and Statistical Analysis department N R Sheoran said the data has been collected from households and enterprises and the state is waiting for the Central nod on use of a private agency that will compile the data “related to different economic indicators like employment and income levels of people”.

As of now,officials said they could not compile the data which has been collected from the field by the enumerators and supervisors and a large set of data collected on the schedule papers has not been fed into the computers.

The work has to be done by a private agency as the government is currently facing shortage of staff to carry out the complicated job. Officials point out that there was shortage of staff at the District Statistical Office (DSO) in the city and even the officials working were less than the sanctioned strength.

At the DSO,against the sanctioned strength of 10 officials,there were only seven officials working as of now.

The data collection is on such economic indicators as the number of people employed in a particular house,a business house,level of income is expected to help the officials better frame their policies.

District Statistical Officer (DSO) M S Luhach said the survey has been done but the compilation of data is yet to start and final report of the city is expected to be ready in a year’s time.

Joint Director,Economic and Statistics,said there were a number of reasons for the delayed start of the survey earlier. “The weather was the main reason for us to time the data collection in February-April period,as in winters and rains it is difficult for field staff to move from house to house. Also,due to the corporation elections,the survey got delayed,”he said.

For the survey work,a large chunk of government officials was drawn from the state education department’s non teaching staff,a senior official said.