Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

Republic of India
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
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Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Annual budget	₹4,859 crore (US$680 million) (2018-19 est.)
Agency executive	Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge);
Child agencies	Department of Statistics; Department of Programme Implementation;
Website	mospi.gov.in

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The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is a ministry of Government of India concerned with coverage and quality aspects of statistics released. The surveys conducted by the Ministry are based on scientific sampling methods.

History[edit]

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) came into existence as an Independent Ministry on 15 October 1999 after the merger of the Department of Statistics and the Department of Programme Implementation.

Departments[edit]

The Ministry has two wings, one relating to Statistics and the other Programme Implementation. The Statistics Wing called the National Statistical Office (NSO) consists of the Central Statistical Office (CSO), the Computer center and the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The Programme Implementation Wing has three Divisions, namely, (i) Twenty Point Programme (ii) Infrastructure Monitoring and Project Monitoring and (iii) Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme. Besides these two wings, there is National Statistical Commission created through a Resolution of Government of India (MOSPI) and one autonomous Institute, viz., Indian Statistical Institute declared as an institute of National importance by an Act of Parliament.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation attaches considerable importance to coverage and quality aspects of statistics released in the country. The statistics released are based on administrative sources, surveys and censuses conducted by the center and State Governments and non-official sources and studies. The surveys conducted by the Ministry are based on scientific sampling methods. Field data are collected through dedicated field staff. In line with the emphasis on the quality of statistics released by the Ministry, the methodological issues concerning the compilation of national accounts are overseen Committees like Advisory Committee on National Accounts, Standing Committee on Industrial Statistics, Technical Advisory Committee on Price Indices. The Ministry compiles data sets based on current data, after applying standard statistical techniques and extensive scrutiny and supervision.

Responsibilities[edit]

National Statistical Office (NSO) is mandated with the following responsibilities:

acts as the nodal agency for planned development of the statistical system in the country, lays down and maintains norms and standards in the field of statistics, involving concepts and definitions, methodology of data collection, processing of data and dissemination of results;
coordinates the statistical work in respect of the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India and State Statistical Bureaus (SSBs), advises the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India on statistical methodology and on statistical analysis of data;
prepares national accounts as well as publishes annual estimates of national product, government and private consumption expenditure, capital formation, savings, estimates of capital stock and consumption of fixed capital, as also the state level gross capital formation of supra-regional sectors and prepares comparable estimates of State Domestic Product (SDP) at current prices;
maintains liaison with international statistical organizations, such as, the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO), the International Labour Organizations (ILO), etc.
compiles and releases the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) every month in the form of ‘quick estimates’; conducts the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI); and provides statistical information to assess and evaluate the changes in the growth, composition and structure of the organized manufacturing sector;
organizes and conducts periodic all-India Economic Censuses and follow-up enterprise surveys, provides an in-house facility to process the data collected through various socio economic surveys and follow-up enterprise surveys of Economic Censuses;
conducts large scale all-India sample surveys for creating the database needed for studying the impact of specific problems for the benefit of different population groups in diverse socio economic areas, such as employment, consumer expenditure, housing conditions and environment, literacy levels, health, nutrition, family welfare, etc.;
examines the survey reports from the technical angle and evaluates the sampling design including survey feasibility studies in respect of surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Organizations and other Central Ministries and Departments;
dissemination of statistical information on various aspects through a number of publications distributed to Government, semi-Government, or private data users/ agencies; and disseminates data, on request, to the United Nations agencies like the UNSD, the ESCAP, the ILO and other international agencies;
releases grants-in-aid to registered Non-Governmental Organizations and research institutions of repute for undertaking special studies or surveys, printing of statistical reports, and financing seminars, workshops and conferences relating to different subject areas of official statistics.

Programme Implementation Wing responsibilities[edit]

Monitoring of the Twenty Point Programme (TPP)
Monitoring the performance of the country's 11 key infrastructure sectors, viz., Power, Coal, Steel, Railways, Telecommunications, Ports, Fertilizers, Cement, Petroleum & Natural Gas, Roads and Civil Aviation (IPMD);
Monitoring of all Central Sector Projects costing Rs. 150 crore and above (IPMD); and
Monitoring the implementation of Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).

Administration Division[edit]

Functions as the Cadre Controlling Authority to manage the Indian Statistical Service and Subordinate Statistical Service including matters like training, career and manpower planning; and acts as the nodal Ministry for the Indian Statistical Institute and ensures its functioning in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Statistical Institute Act, 1959 (57 of 1959).

Plans[edit]

The Ministry is looking at allotting a 16-digit Business identification number to each business establishment. Apart from helping the government create and maintain a comprehensive database on businesses, the unique number will also simplify a business' dealings with various governmental agencies by reducing chances of duplicate entities, resolving identity issues and saving time when going for future registrations or licences.^[2]

List of Ministers[edit]

Name	Tenure		Political Party	Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	1 September 2001	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Jagmohan	1 September 1999	18 November 2001	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)
Maneka Gandhi (MoS, Independent Charge)	18 November 2001	30 June 2002	Independent (National Democratic Alliance)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1 July 2002	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)
Oscar Fernandes (MoS, Independent Charge)	23 May 2004	29 January 2006	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)	Manmohan Singh
G. K. Vasan (MoS, Independent Charge)	29 January 2006	22 May 2009
Sriprakash Jaiswal (MoS, Independent Charge)	28 May 2009	19 January 2011
M. S. Gill	19 January 2011	12 July 2011
Srikant Kumar Jena (MoS, Independent Charge)	12 July 2011	26 May 2014
Rao Inderjit Singh (MoS, Independent Charge)	26 May 2014	09 November 2014	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi
V. K. Singh (MoS, Independent Charge)	09 November 2014	05 July 2016
D. V. Sadananda Gowda	05 July 2016	30 May 2019
Rao Inderjit Singh (MoS, Independent Charge)	30 May 2019

List of Ministers of State[edit]

Minister of State in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Minister of state	Portrait	Political party		Term
Vijay Goel		Bharatiya Janata Party		3 September 2017	30 May 2019	634 days

References[edit]

↑ "Budget data" (PDF). www.indiabudget.gov.in. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
↑ "On Aadhaar's lines: Now, unique identity number for businesses on cards", The Economic Times, 2 April 2016

External links[edit]

Official Website

[1] "Budget data" (PDF). www.indiabudget.gov.in. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.

[2] "On Aadhaar's lines: Now, unique identity number for businesses on cards", The Economic Times, 2 April 2016

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