SC refuses to entertain plea for caste census, says issue in domain of governanceThe Supreme Court has declined to entertain a plea calling for a socio-economic caste census, viewing it as a policy matter within the purv...
02 Sep, 2024, 05.00 PM IST
India starts four-year term as UN Statistical Commission memberThe nodal body of statistics in the country, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has been trying to develop a database ...
01 Jan, 2024, 01.45 PM 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
Government to conduct first ever AYUSH surveyThe National Statistical Office and the State Directorates of Economics & Statistics will carry out the survey programme jointly for a peri...
08 Mar, 2022, 05.49 PM IST
Govt to crowd source, develop new data sources, deep dive in existing data for official stats“We plan to setup a data innovation lab wherein we will try new things. We will tie up with private institutions and industry to work on of...
09 Sep, 2020, 06.43 AM IST
India to revamp scheme for states’ statistical capacity“The World Bank team also made a brief presentation on the NPIQSI, a project under preparation envisaging the assistance of World Bank unde...
10 Jan, 2020, 08.32 PM IST
All-in-one digital repository of official data in the worksAn information portal collating official data on employment, health, GST and trade could be up soon.
30 Dec, 2019, 06.29 AM IST
Centre approves Rs 2,250 crore scheme to build capacity to bring out important sets of dataPeriodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), a continuous survey to assess quarterly labour data in urban areas and annual labour data for the whol...
12 Sep, 2018, 10.12 PM IST
Centre to change base year for GDP, IIP to 2017-18The statistics ministry has proposed the new base year for GDP and IIP as 2017-18 while for CPI it will be 2018.
15 Feb, 2018, 11.41 PM IST
Coming up: An app to help update Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 dataThe govt is developing a mobile app to ensure that the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) is updated regularly, expeditiously to ensure...
21 Aug, 2017, 12.39 AM IST
DMK asks Centre to release Census info on casteDMK president M Karunanidhi today urged the Centre to immediately release the caste data enumerated under the Socio Economic and Caste Cens...
06 Jul, 2015, 03.44 PM IST
Economic data pointer to rural India's appalling status: PMKStating that the socio economic census data released yesterday revealed "two Indias within the glittering image of India as a fast growing ...
04 Jul, 2015, 07.05 PM IST
Centre focussing on development of N-E region: RangarajanThe Centre is giving special attention to the all round socio-economic development of the North East region, C Rangarajan said.
22 Jul, 2013, 06.55 PM IST
- Central Statistical Organisation launches two new socio-economic database products
Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister Srikant Kumar Jena today launched two new statistical products.
27 Dec, 2011, 02.39 PM IST
- Government to spend Rs 800 cr on Economic Census next year
Anant said that there will be a National Business Register which would have details about the entrepreneurs at village and ward levels.
20 Dec, 2011, 03.32 PM IST
- BPL surveys are mere BPL surveys, not caste census: Dr M Vijayanunni
The Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 is independent India’s first attempt to record details of a person’s caste. An expert says collect...
31 Jul, 2011, 03.28 AM IST
- 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...
29 Jun, 2008, 04.02 PM IST