Draft National Statistics policy proposes major changes

[srinivas kodali]

The draft national statistics policy is proposing major changes to how India will collect and decimate statistics. The government is proposing a Indian Statistical Service to take over control in states, as states maybe reporting wrong statistics.

This brings up the issue of centre state relation on data collection and sharing.

They have a proposal to classify all data under NDSAP and publish it accordingly.

The policy defines something called core data, similar to what is found in Andhra Pradesh core.ap.gov.in

While some of things look good on paper, these are few drastic measures good or bad. You can send in your comments on the draft before May 31st to the Ministry.

http://pib.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1532796

Regards,

Srinivas Kodali

[srinivas kodali]

Just a reminder that today is the deadline for submitting any responses to the draft policy.

Regards,

Srinivas Kodali