Govt to release new series of retail inflation, GDP data from Feb, IIP from MayThe Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation will release new macroeconomic data series with revised base years for retail infla...
22 Dec, 2025, 03.50 PM IST
Statistics, Labour ministries should jointly assess impact of PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana: Labour secretaryLabour and statistics ministries are set to collaborate on assessing the impact of PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana, aiming to generate 3.5 c...
28 Aug, 2025, 04.36 PM IST
Conduct 16th population, 8th economic census jointly: MoSPIThe Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is integrating preliminary work for the eighth economic census with the 16t...
18 Jul, 2025, 12.26 AM IST
Centre plans first nationwide Household Income Survey in 2026; MoSPI sets up expert panelIndia is set to conduct its first full-scale household income distribution survey in 2026, overseen by a newly formed Technical Expert Grou...
23 Jun, 2025, 05.09 PM IST
Govt revamps employment survey, extends quarterly data to rural India for the first timeThe Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) will enhance labour force data dissemination by publishing the Periodic Lab...
14 May, 2025, 06.41 PM IST
MoSPI to now release IIP data on 28th of every month from AprilThe Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) announced that the All India Index of Industrial Production (IIP) will be rel...
17 Apr, 2025, 05.38 PM IST
MoSPI shifts GDP release time to 4 pm starting NovemberIndia's National Statistical Office (NSO) is shifting its GDP data release time to 4 pm from 5:30 pm, starting this month. This aligns with...
08 Nov, 2024, 12.25 PM IST
India changes timing of revealing its GDP dataThe Government of India has announced a change in the release timing for its quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates, moving the r...
08 Nov, 2024, 11.08 AM IST
MoSPI shifts CPI and IIP release time to align with market closing hoursIndia's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has shifted the release time for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Ind...
05 Nov, 2024, 09.10 PM IST
New PPI model in works, govt working on WPI base revision: DPIIT secretaryThe industry department has developed a new Producer Price Index (PPI) model to better capture input prices, shared with the IMF, according...
04 Jul, 2024, 08.46 PM IST
In a first, value of government freebies to be computedWhile the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CES) in the past have had questions on freebies received by households, an attempt at imputation of...
15 May, 2023, 09.05 AM IST
Govt revises norms for Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme 2023The revised rules will enable MPs to recommend developmental works as per the requirement of their constituency. Rao Inderjit Singh, minist...
23 Feb, 2023, 12.48 AM IST
Calendar rejigged: GDP numbers to be released after BudgetAs per the new calendar, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) will from this year release the first revised esti...
16 Jan, 2023, 12.10 AM IST
Government to release data on June retail inflation on TuesdayLast month, the Reserve Bank in its bi-monthly monetary policy review raised the benchmark repo rate at which it lends short-term money to ...
12 Jul, 2022, 10.28 AM IST
Why is June 29 is celebrated as National Statistics Day in India?India observes June 29 as National Statistics Day every year. The day is observed to honour Late Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis’s w...
29 Jun, 2022, 07.26 PM IST
IIP contraction rate slows in May, govt withholds headline figureThe government did not provide a number for the change in output from May 2020 but said the number of units responding has improved as comp...
10 Jul, 2020, 09.18 PM IST
MoSPI is giving an increased focus on data quality, assurance, credibility: GovernmentThe government had last month approved the merger of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) with the Central Statistics Office (CSO) under Mo...
10 Jun, 2019, 09.47 PM IST