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Data gap on climate change a hindrance to global policy making: Shaktikanta DasThe new phase of G-20 Data Gaps Initiative (DGI) proposes climate change as a major focus area to address data gaps that have been identifi...
Gaps in climate-change data a challenge for policy-making, says RBI Governor Das“We are also facing long term challenges of climate change, with its unusually complex dynamics. It poses new challenges to central banks, ...
Govt working on one-stop platform for all official data: Statistics ministerThe project, National Integrated Information Portal (NIIP), assumes significance as data related to macro-economy and other sectors are rel...
Shaktikanta Das cautions against cherry-picking of data by expertsHis remarks come in the backdrop of recent controversies over GDP data after former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian in a research...
Tech holds key to fast-tracking crop insurance claimsThe use of tech to expedite claims has become even more important as the govt has mandated to settle insurance claims within two months of ...
Maharashtra to sign MoU with IISc to make drones for crop assessmentAlthough India is among the top producers of several agricultural commodities, it continues to have grossly inaccurate production estimates.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: India's first Big Data manPCM is popularly known among Indians for his draft of the Second Five-Year Plan which he submitted to the National Development Council in 1...
Country set for good Rabi season due to late rains: Agriculture SecretaryMost parts of northwest and central India received deficit rainfall, but farmers in Punjab and Haryana have access to canal irrigation that...
Government unveils Kisan project; hailstorm app to assess crop damageAlso to access large-scale damage to standing crops, it launched an Android-based app for collection of data of hailstorm.
Haryana government launches statistical software 'e-vishleshak'Capt Abhimanyu said departments could make schemes effective on the basis of statistics, adding that any department could examine the stati...
- Programme to provide pre-harvest crop estimate
The government has developed a system for pre-harvest crop production forecast using satellite data, Tariq Anwar said
How does NSSO data help the governmentThe NSSO on Wednesday released the provisional findings of its 68th round capturing monthly consumption expenditure across India.
- Government to use satellite technology for crop and drought assessment
The government will use inputs of the recently set up Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre to prepare multiple in-season crop forecast...
- Indian Statistical Institute, a key policymaking player: Mukherjee
Founded by professor PC Mahalanobis in Kolkata on December 17, 1931, the institute gained the status of an institution of national importan...
- Data necessary for policy decisions be generated: Mukherjee
External Affairs Minister asked statisticians of the country to generate data which are necessary to facilitate policy decisions in a multi...
- PM for more statistics-backed decision making
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the country should evolve national quality standards for statistics.
- Private sector likely to add muscle to statistics system
The government may involve the private sector for gathering information. Minister for Statistics, GK Vasan, said a closer co-operation of t...