{"id":36408,"date":"2025-10-27T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=36408"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:02:56","slug":"standing-committee-on-statistics-scos-government-forms-new-panel-to-review-all-nso-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/standing-committee-on-statistics-scos-government-forms-new-panel-to-review-all-nso-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in News?<\/li>\n<li>The Statistical set-up of the Government of India<\/li>\n<li>NSO is Mandated with the Following Responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>About the Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has replaced the Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES) &#8211; tasked with examining economic indicators only, with a <strong>Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The SCoS has a broader mandate to review the framework and results of all surveys conducted under the aegis of the <strong>National Statistical Office (NSO)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>The Statistical set-up of the Government of India:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The MoSPI<\/strong> came into existence as an Independent Ministry in 1999 after the merger of the Department of Statistics and the Department of Programme Implementation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ministry has two wings<\/strong>, one relating to Statistics and the other Programme Implementation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Statistics Wing<\/strong> called the <strong>NSO <\/strong>consists of the Central Statistical Office (CSO), the Computer center and the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO).<\/li>\n<li>Besides these two wings, there is <strong>National Statistical Commission<\/strong> (NSC was created through a resolution) and one autonomous Institute &#8211;<strong> Indian Statistical Institute<\/strong> &#8211; an institute of National importance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>NSO is Mandated with the Following Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Acts as the nodal agency<\/strong> for planned development of the statistical system in the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coordinates the statistical work<\/strong> in respect of the Ministries\/Departments of the Government of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prepares national accounts <\/strong>as well as publishes annual estimates of national product.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maintains liaison with international statistical organisations,<\/strong> such as the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), IMF, ADB, FAO, ILO, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Compiles and releases the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)<\/strong> every month in the form of \u2018quick estimates\u2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conducts the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Provides statistical information<\/strong> to assess and evaluate the changes in the growth, composition and structure of the organised manufacturing sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organises and conducts periodic all-India Economic Censuses<\/strong> and follow-up enterprise surveys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About the Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>formed in 2019<\/strong> to provide a new internal oversight mechanism for official data, revamping a SCES.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Need:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The development assumes significance amid sharp critiques of India\u2019s statistical machinery by members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/economic-advisory-council-to-the-prime-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Advisory Council (EAC)<\/a> to the PM.<\/li>\n<li>The EAC\u2019s chairperson (Bibek Debroy) had mooted an overhaul of the system and contended that the Indian Statistical Service has \u201clittle expertise in survey design\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terms of reference:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To <strong>ensure more coverage<\/strong>, the panel can have up to 16 members.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>expand the mandate beyond economic<\/strong> data and advise the Ministry on technical aspects for all surveys, such as sampling, design, survey methodology and finalisation of results.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>identify data gaps<\/strong> that need to be filled by official statistics, along with an appropriate strategy to plug those gaps.<\/li>\n<li>To explore the <strong>use of administrative statistics <\/strong>to improve data outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Role to be played by NSC<\/strong>: While the panel will help <strong>finalise survey results,<\/strong> the NSC will have the ultimate authority to approve the publication of those results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the National Sample Survey Office(NSSO)?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Sample Survey Office(NSSO) headed by a Director General is responsible for conducting large scale sample surveys in diverse fields on an All India basis. Primarily data are collected through nation-wide household surveys on various socio-economic subjects, Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/delay-in-census-centre-dissolves-panel-on-statistical-surveys-after-members-raise-concerns-9557883\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Delay in census: Govt dissolves Standing Committee on Statistics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Standing Committee on Statistics formed to oversee all statistical surveys by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has been dissolved by the government amid apparent concerns raised by some members over the delay in conducting the census. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}