Mospi Presentation
Mospi Presentation
Mospi Presentation
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TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
• The foundation of the statistical system in India was laid down by the
British administration in the period 1840-1865
• The British government of India were required to publish the
relevant statistics in their annual administration reports. The British
government of India in Calcutta assumed the task of compiling and
editing the trade statistics for all of British India. The product, as it
emerged and the forms for this information were later made
uniform, and the first Statistical Abstract of British India (1840-1865)
was based on such information provided by the states.
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• A small statistical unit was set up at the Centre in the Cabinet Secretariat
in 1949. This unit was developed later on in 1951 into the Central
Statistical Organisation (CSO).
• In April 1961, the Department of Statistics was set up in the Cabinet
Secretariat and the CSO became a part of it.
• As discussed earlier the statistical organizations were set up under the
cabinet secretariat in different years but in 1973 some of these were
brought under Ministry of planning .
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• The Government of India through a resolution dated 1st June, 2005 set up the
National Statistical Commission (NSC). The setting up of the NSC followed the
decision of the Cabinet to accept the recommendations of the Rangarajan(an
economist and statistician) Commission, which reviewed the Indian Statistical
System in 2001
• The Commission has a part-time Chairperson, four part-time Members each
having specialization and experience in specified statistical fields and an ex-officio
Member. The Chief Statistician of India, the post created specifically as the Head
of the National Statistical Office is the Secretary of the Commission. He is also
the Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Statistics and
Programme Implementation.
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