National Statistical Commission

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Recently, the Government of India has appointed a new Chairperson and three Members to the National Statistical Commission. 

About National Statistical Commission

• It was set up in 2005 on the recommendations of Rangarajan Commission (2000).
• Mandate: It was established to serve as a nodal body for all core statistical activities of the country and also evolve, monitor and enforce statistical priorities and standards and to ensure statistical co-ordination.
• Composition
  • It consists of a part-time Chairperson, four part-time Members having specialization and experience in areas of statistics,
  • CEO of NITI Aayog as an ex-officio Member.
  • The Chief Statistician of India is the Secretary of the Commission. (He is also the Secretary to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation).

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Functions of National Statistical Commission

• To identify the core statistics, which are of national importance and are critical to the development of the economy;
• To constitute professional committees or working groups to assist the Commission on various technical issues;
• To evolve national policies and priorities relating to the statistical system;
• To evolve standard statistical concepts, definitions, classifications and methodologies in different areas in statistics and lay down national quality standards on core statistics;
• To evolve national strategies for the collection, tabulation and dissemination of core statistics, including the release calendar for various data sets

Source: PIB