India's statistics ministry is modernizing its data systems. New digital tools and faster releases are improving access to socio-economic i...

Speaking amid scrutiny of India's stronger-than-expected 8.2% GDP growth in the second quarter of this financial year, he said, "We are eng...

India's government is updating its economic data base year. This revision will better show how the economy has changed over the last decade...

The government plans to include online and e-commerce price data in calculating retail inflation (CPI) to improve its accuracy, reliability...

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation will release new macroeconomic data series with revised base years for retail infla...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met with the National Statistical Commission chairman and statistics ministry secretary to bol...

Alternative datasets are important for policymaking. V Anantha Nageswaran said they offer unique insights. Official statistics remain cruci...

The Indian statistics ministry is collaborating with global organisations like the World Bank, IMF, and UNSD to incorporate e-commerce data...

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) plans to use citizen-generated data (CGD) for monitoring sustainable develo...

Labour and employment secretary Sumita Dawra chaired the 7th meeting of the task force on Friday to firm up the report which is expected to...

India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is considering increasing the frequency of the Periodic Labour Force Su...

India is set to release a framework to assess its logistics cost, with estimates suggesting it stands at 13-14% of the country's GDP. The g...

The government is working on a framework to assess the logistics cost in the country and is expected to get a realistic estimate by Septemb...

A task force will be set up for formulating a framework to determine logistics costs in the country. The task force members would include r...

“The World Bank team also made a brief presentation on the NPIQSI, a project under preparation envisaging the assistance of World Bank unde...

MoSPI has roped in CSC e-governance, also known as CSC SPV, for conducting the seventh economic census.

Noting that collection of large scale data and processing them was not enough, Gowda said data documentation, archival and dissemination wa...