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Business Standard
2 days ago
- Business
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GDP base revision could be done more frequently in future: Rao Inderjit
MoSPI is examining the feasibility of salvaging the data of 7th Economic Census in consultation with states/UTs Shiva Rajora New Delhi Listen to This Article The Indian Statistical System will play a key role in 'data-driven' decision making by the government in the journey towards Viksit Bharat 2047, says Rao Inderjit Singh, Union minister of state (independent charge), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (Mospi), in an email interview with Shiva Rajora. Edited excerpts. Your ministry is extensively focusing on technology to collect, process, and disseminate data and also on using alternative data sources. How are these changes driving the transformation in the ministry? How does it benefit data users? Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said: 'We must become tech-savvy so that every policy and
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Business Standard
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Centre nudges states to implement new labour codes, shifts reform goalpost
During 2019-20, Parliament consolidated 29 labour laws into four codes - Code on Wages; Code on Social Security; Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code; and Industrial Relations Code Shiva Rajora New Delhi Listen to This Article Narendra Kumar, 41, has been working as a delivery person for an online food aggregator during the day. Evening onwards, he's a security guard in a nearby milk factory. 'I usually work 13-14 hours in a day. If I fall sick even for a single day, I don't get anything from any of my jobs. Or if I meet with an accident, as I did last month, my employers would not give me anything, as they don't recognise me as their employee,'' Kumar pointed out. His ask: The government must step in to improve the working conditions. Kumar, who is
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Business Standard
08-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Revised CPI series may track more markets, ecom data in major cities
Currently, monthly price data is collected from 1181 villages and 1114 markets in 310 selected towns by the field operations division of the NSO Shiva Rajora New Delhi Listen to This Article To make the revised consumer price index (CPI) series more robust and representative of price changes, the number of physical markets from where price data is collected will be increased to 2,900 from nearly 2,300 now, official sources told Business Standard. Currently, the National Statistical Office's (NSO's) field operations division gathers monthly price data from 1,181 villages and 1,114 markets across 310 selected towns. Under the revised methodology, price data will also be collected from online marketplaces in 12 of the country's most populous cities, each having a population of more than 2.5 million. The new series is slated to
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Business Standard
06-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
MoSPI sets up working group to prepare statistical business register
The proposed business register will be prepared using data from the economic census (EC), state specific databases and central databases Shiva Rajora New Delhi Listen to This Article The ministry of statistics and program implementation (MoSPI) has constituted a working group to prepare a statistical business register (SBR), encompassing all enterprises — both formal and informal — across the country, official sources told Business Standard. This exercise, according to them, will help capture the number of active and closed establishments. 'The register will ensure that any information required about businesses and enterprises in the country is available at one place and is updated at regular intervals. It will serve as a comprehensive database of enterprises operating at the district, state, and national levels. It will be the backbone
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Business Standard
01-06-2025
- General
- Business Standard
MP, Chhattisgarh lag nation in mobile phone ownership among women
Data showed that mobile phone ownership among women in the '15 years and above' age group in 10 states and Union Territories (UTs) stood below the national average of 56.2 per cent Shiva Rajora New Delhi Listen to This Article Chhattisgarh (39 per cent), Tripura (40.4 per cent) and Madhya Pradesh (42.4 per cent) have emerged as laggards in terms of mobile phones owned by women, according to the latest 'Comprehensive Modular Survey: Telecom' (CMS:T) released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Thursday. Data showed that mobile phone ownership among women in the '15 years and above' age group in 10 states and Union Territories (UTs) stood below the national average of 56.2 per cent. Meanwhile, nearly 92 per cent women in Goa and Ladakh owned a mobile phone, followed by Mizoram (88.5 per cent), Kerala (85 per cent)
