Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics

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About Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics:

It is the premier organization of Government of India for collection, compilation and dissemination of India’s trade statistics and commercial information.
History
- The Organization traces its origin to a statistical branch established in the Finance Department of the Government of India way back in 1862.
- Sir William W. Hunter was the first DG of the DGCI & S or the Director General of Statistics as he was designated, back in 1871.
Functions
- It is entrusted with the work of collecting, compiling and publishing/disseminating trade statistics and various types of commercial information required by the policy makers, researchers, importers, exporters, traders as well as overseas buyers.
- It is the first large scale data processing organization functioning as a nodal agency for Export & Import data in the country.
- It also compiles and publishes the inland Trade Statistics covering inter-state movements of goods by rail, river and air on yearly basis.
It is headed by the Director General, an Additional Secretary level officer of Indian Statistical Services (ISS).
Nodal Ministry: It works under the Ministry of Commerce.
Headquarter: Kolkata.

Q1: What are statistics?

It is the science of collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data. Governmental needs for census data as well as information about a variety of economic activities provided much of the early impetus for the field of statistics.

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