Delay in Census: Govt Dissolves Standing Committee on Statistics
10 September 2024 | The Indian Express
A committee 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. A letter by the Ministry to the panel members stated that the work done by the committee is similar to the work done by the recently formed Steering Committee for National Sample Surveys and thus, the committee was being dissolved.
On July 13, 2023, the government had constituted a 14-member Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS), after renaming and expanding the scope of coverage of the Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES) formed in December 2019. Members of the Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS) said there were discussions in earlier meetings regarding delay in economic census and the decennial census which maps the population of the country and that could have been one of the contentious reasons for dissolution. India’s last census was conducted in 2011 and it has already overshot the stipulated timeline for the next round due in 2021…