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STATISTICAL SYSTEM

IN INDIA

2009

Government of India

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

New Delhi

Website : www.mospi.gov.in

FOREWORD

India, in accordance with its federal structure, has created a sound and robustStatistical System, which is largely decentralized with central coordination. Our statisticalbase has played an important role in decision-making, and has contributed to ourplanned economic development, since independence. Over the years, the IndianStatistical System has undergone transformation in a considerable measure to meetthe emerging data requirement challenges arising out of the globalization andliberalization of our economy.

2. Being the Nodal Ministry on all statistical matters in the country, the Ministry ofStatistics and Programme Implementation, in order to provide up-to-date informationconcerning the structure and functions of major statistical organizations in the country,has been bringing out a publication entitled: ‘Statistical System In India’, from time totime, since 1951 . The last such publication was brought out in 1997. Since then, therehave been rapid and extensive structural changes in the statistical system, both at theCentre and in the States/UTs. Constitution of National Statistical Commission (NSC),with the mandate to revamp the entire statistical system in the country to improve itscredibility, timeliness and adequacy, has added a new dimension to the system. Majorsteps were taken to invigorate and re-energize our statistical system consequent to therecommendations of National Statistical Commission. The official statistical system isconsciously gearing up to adapt itself to the fast-changing environment, particularly inview of the Government emphasis on engaging citizens’ directly in governance reforms.In such a scenario, as the Indian Statistical System grows in size and complexity tomeet challenges and the growing and diversified needs of different stakeholders, it isimperative that information on its organizational structure including manpower, etc. bemade available at one place, which will be useful for various functionaries in theGovernments as well as the public at large to appreciate Statistical System in India inall its complexity.

3. The current publication provides a broad outline of the statistical system as itexists today, including summary information on statistical personnel at various levels invarious agencies under the Central Government, State Governments, Union Territories

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Mk- iz.ko lsulfpo] Hkkjr ljdkjDR. PRONAB SENSecretary, Government of India

and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) at the Centre. Although every effort has beenmade to provide latest available data in respect of statistical manpower at differentlevels in various agencies, based on the information provided by them, these figurescan only be of an indicative nature. A unique and distinct feature of this publication,unlike the previous issues, is that it describes the statistical set up that is prevailing inthe States/UTs. In this publication, an attempt has also been made to include detailsof publications being brought out by various agencies under the Central Government,States/UTs and PSUs as also major statistical activities. It is hoped that all who areinterested in the field of Official Statistics will find this publication convenient anduseful in understanding the Indian Statistical System.

4. I take this opportunity to thank all the Central Ministries/Departments, the StateGovernments/Union Territories, Public Sector Undertakings and various otherorganizations for their active co-operation in providing the information that has enabledthe Ministry to bring out this publication. I also take this opportunity to place on recordmy deep appreciation for all Officers of Coordination and Administration Division (CAD)for their untiring efforts to make this publication as comprehensive as possible.

(Pronab Sen)Secretary to the Government of India &

Chief Statistician of India

New Delhi, the 22nd September, 2009

Contents

Central Ministries/Independent Departments/ Organisations

Sl. No. Central Ministries/States/Public Sector Undertakings Page No.

FOREWORD

OVERVIEW xiii-xv

CENTRAL MINISTRIES

1. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE 3

1. 01 Department of Agriculture and Cooperation 3

http://agricoop.nic.in/

1.01.01 Agriculture Census Division 3-4

http://agcensus.nic.in/

1.01.02 Directorate of Economics and Statistics 4-7

http://www.dacnet.nic.in/eands/

1.01.03 Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices 7-8

http://www.dacnet.nic.in/cacp

1.01.04 Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, Faridabad 8

http://www.agmarknet.nic.in/dmiwelcome.html

1.01.05 Directorate of Cashewnut and Cocoa Development 9

http://www.dacnet.nic.in/cashewcocoa

1.01.06 National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development Board 9-10

http://www.novodboard.com/

1.01.07 Directorate of Rice Development, Patna(Agri & Coop) 10

http://dacnet.nic.in/rice/

1.01.08 Horticulture Division 11-12

1. 02 Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (DADF) 12-13

http://dahd.nic.in/

1.02.01 Coastal Aquaculture Authority 13

http://www.caa.gov.in/index.htm

1. 03 Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) 13

http://dare.nic.in/

1.03.01 Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Orissa 13-14

http://crri.nic.in/

1.03.02 Indian Institute of Horticulture Research, Bangalore 14-15

http://www.iihr.res.in/

1.03.03 Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad 15

1.03.04 Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, 15-16

West Bengal http://cifri.gov.in/

1.03.05 Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi 16-17

http://www.iasri.res.in/

1.03.06 Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore 17-18

http://sugarcane-breeding.tn.nic.in/

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1.03.07 National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, U.P. 18-19

http://www.nbfgr.res.in/

1.03.08 National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, 19

Hyderabad http://www.naarm.ernet.in/

1.03.09 Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad 19

1.03.10 Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, UP 20

http://ivri.nic.in/

1.03.11 Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasargod, Kerala 20-21

http://cpcri.gov.in/

1.03.12 National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi 21

http://nbpgr.delhi.nic.in/

2. MINISTRY OF CHEMICAL AND FERTILIZERS 22

2.01 Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals 22

http://chemicals.gov.in/

2.02 Department of Pharmaceuticals 22-23

http://pharmaceuticals.gov.in/

2.03 Department of Fertilizer 23

http://fert.nic.in/index.htm

3. MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION 24

www.moca.gov.in

3.00.01 Directorate General of Civil Aviation 24-25

http://dgca.nic.in/

3.00.02 Bureau of Civil Aviation Security 25

http://bcasindia.nic.in/

3.00.03 Airports Authority of India 25-26

www.airportsindia.org.in/

4. MINISTRY OF COAL 27

http://coal.nic.in/

5. MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY 28

http://commerce.nic.in/

5.01 Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion 28

http://dipp.nic.in/

5.01.01 Office of the Economic Adviser to GOI 28-29

http://eaindustry.nic.in/

5.01.02 Office of Controller General, Patents, Designs and Trade Marks 29-30

(known as Intellectual Property Office-IPO)

www.ipindia.nic.in

5.02 Department of Commerce 30

http://commerce.nic.in/

5.02.01 Directorate General of Foreign Trade 30-31

http://dgft.delhi.nic.in

5.02.02 Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals 31-32

http://dgsnd.gov.in/

5.02.03 Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics 32-33

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(DGCI&S), Kolkata www.dgciskol.nic.in

5.02.04 Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) 33-34

http:/www.mpeda.com

5.02.05 The Rubber Board 34-35

www.rubberboard.org.in

5.02.06 Spices Board 35-36

www.indianspices.com

5.02.07 Tea Board of India 36-37

www.teaboard.gov.in

5.02.08 Coffee Board 37-38

http://www.indiacoffee.org/

5.02.09 Tariff Commission 38-39

http://tc.nic.in/

6. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 40

http://www.mit.gov.in/

6.01 Department of Posts 40

http://www.indiapost.gov.in/

6.02 Department of Telecommunication 40

www.dot.gov.in

6.03 Department of Information Technology 40-41

http://www.mit.gov.in

6.03.01 National Informatics Centre 41

http://nic.gov.in/

7. MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION 42

http://fcamin.nic.in/

7.01 Department of Consumer Affairs 42

http://fcamin.nic.in/index.asp

7.01.01 National Test House 43

http://www.nth.nic.in/

7.01.02 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) 43

http://www.bis.org.in/

7.02 Department of Food and Public Distribution 43-44

http://fcamin.nic.in/dfpd_html/index.asp

7.02.01 Directorate of Sugar 44

7.02.02 Directorate of Vanaspati, Vegetable Oils and Fats 44

7.02.03 National Sugar Institute, Kanpur 45

http://nsi.gov.in/

8. MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS 46

http://www.mca.gov.in/

9. MINISTRY OF CULTURE 47

http://indiaculture.nic.in/

9.00.01 National Archives of India 47

9.00.02 Archeological Survey of India 47-48

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9.00.03 Anthropological Survey of India 48-49

10. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 50

http://mod.nic.in/

10.00.01 MIS Cell in Acquisition Wing 50

10.00.02 Army Headquarters 50-51

http://indianarmy.nic.in/

10.00.03 Naval Headquarters 51

http://indiannavy.nic.in/

10.00.04 Air Headquarters 51-52

http://indianairforce.nic.in/

11. MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERN REGION 53

http://mdoner.gov.in/

11.00.01 North Eastern Council Secretariat 53

http://necouncil.gov.in/

12. MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES 54

http://moes.gov.in/

12.00.01 Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) 54

http://www.imd.gov.in/

13. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS Central Pollution Control Board : 55

www.cpcb.nic.in

13.00.01 Indira Gandhi Forest Academy, Dehradun 55

http://www.ignfa.org/

13.00.02 National Museum of Natural History 55

http://nmnh.nic.in

13.00.03 Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 55-56

http://envfor.nic.in/zsi/

13.00.04 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 56

http://www.envfor.nic.in/icfre/fri/fri.html

13.00.05 Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education(ICFRE), Dehradun 56-57

13.00.06 Forest Survey of India 57

http://fsi.nic.in/

14. MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS 58

http://meaindia.nic.in/

15. MINISTRY OF FINANCE 59

http://finmin.nic.in/

15.01 Department of Economic Affairs 59

http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/ dept_eco_affairs/dea.html

15. 02 Department of Expenditure 59-60

http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/index.html

15. 03 Department of Revenue 60

http://dor.gov.in/

15.03.01 Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) 60-61

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http://www.cbec.gov.in/

15.03.02 Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) 61

http://www.cbdt.html/

15.03.03 Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) 61

http://www.ceib.nic.in/

15.03.04 Directorate of Enforcement 61-62

http://www.directorateofenforcement.gov.in/

15.04 Department of Disinvestment 62

http://www.divest.nic.in/

16. MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES 63

http://mofpi.nic.in/

17. MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE 64

http://mohfw.nic.in/

17.01 Department of Health and Family Welfare 64

http://www.wbhealth.gov.in/

17.01.01 Central Bureau of Health Intelligence 65-66

www.cbhidghs.nic.in

17.01.02 National Institute of Communicable Diseases 66-67

http://nicd.org/

17.01.03 All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIH&PH), Kolkata 67

http://mohfw.nic.in/kk/95/ib/95ib0y01.htm

17.01.04 National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore 67-68

http://ntindia.kar.nic.in

17.02 Department of AYUSH 68

http://indianmedicine.nic.in/

17.03 Department of Health Research 68-69

17.03.01 National Institute of Medical Statistics 69

http://icmr.nic.in/000134/irms.htm

17.04 Department of AIDS control 69-70

http://www.nacoonline.org/NACO

18. MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES 71

18.01 Department of Heavy Industry 71

http://dhi.nic.in/

18.02 Department of Public Enterprises 71

http://dpe.nic.in/

19. Ministry of Home Affairs 72

http://mha.gov.in/

19.01 Department of Home 72

19.01.01 Office of Registrar General of India 72-73

19.01.02 National Crime Records Bureau 73-74

http://ncrb.nic.in/

19.01.03 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 74

http://crpf.nic.in/

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19.01.04 Central Industrial Security Force(CISF) 74

19.01.05 Directorate General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (DG-ITBP) 75

http://itbpolice.nic.in/

19.01.06 Directorate General of National Security Guards (DG-NSG) 75

http://nsg.gov.in/

19.02 Department of Official Languages 75

http://rajbhasha.nic.in/

20 MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION 76

http://mhupa.gov.in/

21 MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 77

http://education.nic.in/

21.00.01 National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) 77-78

http://www.ncert.nic.in/welcome.asp

22. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING 79

http://mib.gov.in/

22.00.01 Office of Registrar of Newspapers of India 79-80

https://rni.nic.in/

23. Ministry of Labour and Employment 81

http://labour.nic.in/

23.00.01 Directorate General of Employment & Training 81-83

http://dget.nic.in/

23.00.02 Directorate General Factory Advice Service and Labour Institute , 83

Mumbai www.dgfasli.nic.in

23.00.03 Labour Bureau, Shimla 83-84

http://labourbureau.nic.in/

23.00.04 Director General of Mines Safety, Dhanbad 84-85

http://www.dgms.net/

24. MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE 86

http://lawmin.nic.in/

25. MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES 87

http://msme.gov.in/

25.00.01 Khadi & Village Industries Commission 87-88

www.kvic.org.in

25.00.02 Coir Board 88-89

http/www.coirboard.nic.in, www.coirboard.gov.in

26. MINISTRY OF MINES 90

http://mines.nic.in/

26.00.01 Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) 90

http://ibm.nic.in

26.00.02 Geological Survey of India 91

http://www.gsi.gov.in

27. MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS 92

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http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/newsite/index.asp

28. MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 93

http://mnes.nic.in/

29. MINISTRY OF OVERSEAS INDIAN AFFAIRS 94

http://moia.gov.in/

30. MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ 95

http://panchayat.gov.in/

31. MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS 96

http://mpa.nic.in/

32. MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS 97

http://persmin.nic.in/

33. MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 98

http://petroleum.nic.in/

34 MINISTRY OF POWER 99

http://powermin.nic.in/

34.00.01 Central Electricity Authority 99

http://www.cea.nic.in/

35 MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 100-101

http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/

36. MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAY 102-103

37 MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT 104

http://rural.nic.in/

37.01 Department of Drinking Water Supply 104

http://ddws.nic.in/

37.02 Department of Land Resources 104-105

http://dolr.nic.in/

37.03 Department of Rural Development 105

http://drd.nic.in/

37.03.01 National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) 106

http://www.nird.org/

38. MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 107

38.01 Department of Bio-Technology (DBT ) 107

http://www/dbtindia.nic.in

http://www.btisnet.gov.in

38.02 Department of Science and Technology 107-108

http://dst.gov.in/

38.02.01 National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO) 108

http://natmo.gov.in/

38.03 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) 108-109

http://www.dsir.gov.in/

38.03.01 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 109

http://www.csir.res.in/

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39. MINISTRY OF SHIPPING 110

39.00.01 Chennai Port Trust 110-111

www.chennaiport.gov

39.00.02 Cochin Port Trust 111

www.cochinport.com

39.00.03 Mormugao Port Trust 111-112

http://mormugaoport.gov.in/

39.00.04 Mumbai Port Trust 112-113

http://www.mumbaiporttrust.gov.in

39.00.05 Paradip Port Trust 113

www.paradipport.gov.in

39.00.06 Vishakapatnam Port Trust 113-114

http://www.vizagport.com/

40. MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT 115

http://socialjustice.nic.in/

41. MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION 116-119

http://mospi.gov.in/

42. MINISTRY OF STEEL 120-121

http://steel.nic.in/

43. MINISTRY OF TEXTILES 122

http://texmin.nic.in/

43.00.01 Office of the Development Commissioner for Handicrafts 122-123

http://handicrafts.nic.in/

43.00.02 Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms 123

http://handlooms.nic.in/

43.00.03 Office of the Jute Commissioner 123

www.jute.comm.gov.in

43.00.04 Office of the Textile Commissioner 124

http://www.txcindia.com/

43.00.05 Central Silk Board 124

http://www.indiansilk.kar.nic.in/

44. MINISTRY OF TOURISM 125

http://tourism.gov.in/

45. MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS 126

http://tribal.gov.in/

46. MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 127

http://urbanindia.nic.in/moud/moud.htm

47. MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES 128-129

http://wrmin.nic.in/

47.00.01 Central Soil and Materials Research Station 129

http://csmrs.nic.in/

47.00.02 Central Water Commission 129-130

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http://cwc.nic.in/

47.00.03 Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune 131-132

www.cwprs.gov.in

47.00.04 Central Ground Water Board 132

http://cgwb.gov.in/

48. MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 133

http://wcd.nic.in/

48.00.01 Central Social Welfare Board 134

http://cswb.gov.in/

49. MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS 135

http://yas.nic.in/index.html

49.01 Department of Youth Affairs and Sports

http://yas.nic.in/index.asp?layid=1, http://yas.nic.in/index.asp?layid=2 135

INDEPENDENT DEPARTMENTS

50. DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY 136

http://www.dae.gov.in/

51. DEPARTMENT OF SPACE 137

http://www.isro.org/

52. PLANNING COMMISSION 138

http://planningcommission.gov.in/

52.00.01 Labour, Employment and Manpower Division 138

52.00.02 Perspective Planning Division (PPD) 138-139

52.00.03 Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO) 139

53. RESERVE BANK OF INDIA 140-141

http://www.rbi.org.in/

54. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 142

http://www.cbi.gov.in/default.php

55. CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION 143

www.cvc.nic.in

56. COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA 144

http://www.cag.gov.in/

57. UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 145

http://www.upsc.gov.in/

STATES/UNION TERRITORIES

1. ANDHRA PRADESH 149-152

http://www.apdes.ap.gov.in/

2. ASSAM 153-157

http://www.ecostatassam.nic.in/

3. BIHAR 158-160

http://planning.bih.nic.in/

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4. CHHATTISGARH 161-164

5. GOA 165-167

6. GUJARAT 168-171

http://gujecostat.gujarat.gov.in/

7. HARYANA 172-174

http://esaharyana.gov.in

8. HIMACHAL PRADESH 175-178

http://himachal.nic.in / economics

9. JAMMU & KASHMIR 179-182

10. JHARKHAND 183-185

11. KARNATAKA 186-188

http://des.kar.nic.in/

12. KERALA 189-193

http://www.ecostatkerala.org/

13. MADHYA PRADESH 194-197

http://www.mp.gov.in/des/

14. MAHARASHTRA 198-200

http://des.maharashtra.gov.in/

15. MANIPUR 201-203

http://desmani.nic.in

16. MEGHALAYA 204-206

17. MIZORAM 207-209

http://mizoram.gov.in/ http://desmizo.nic.in

18. NAGALAND 210

19. ORISSA 211-214

http://www.orissa.gov.in/p&c/desorissa/

20. PUNJAB 215-217

http://www.pbplanning.gov.in

21. RAJASTHAN 218-222

http://mospi.gov.in/mospi_des.htm http://statistics.rajasthan.gov.in

22. SIKKIM 223-225

http://www.sikkiminfo.net / govt / economic.htm

23. TAMIL NADU 226-228

http://www.tnstat.gov.in

24. TRIPURA 229-231

http://destripura.nic.in/

25. UTTAR PRADESH 232-233

http://updes.up.nic.in

26. UTTARAKHAND 234-237

http://gov.ua.nic.in/des

27. WEST BENGAL 238-241

http://www.wbplan.gov.in /

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UNION TERRITORIES

28. ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS 242-245

http://www.and.nic.in/

29. CHANDIGARH ADMINISTRATION 246-247

30. DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI 248-249

31. DAMAN & DIU 250-251

32. NCT OF DELHI 252-255

http://delhigovt.nic.in/ http://www.des.delhigovt.nic.in

33. LAKSHADWEEP 256-257

http://lakshadweep.nic.in/

34. PUDUCHERRY 258-260

http://statistics.puducherry.gov.in/

PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKINGS

1. AIRPORTS AUTHORITY OF INDIA, NEW DELHI 263

http://www.airportsindia.org.in/AAI/main.jsp

2. ANDREW YULE & CO. LTD., KOLKATA 264

http://business.vsnl.com/yule/

3. BHARAT COKING COAL LTD, DHANBAD 255

http://bccl.cmpdi.co.in/

4. BHARATIYA NABHIKIYA VIDYUT NIGAM LIMTED., CHENNAI 266

http://www.bhavini.nic.in/

5. BHARAT PUMPS & COMPRESSORS LTD., ALLAHABAD 267

http://www.bharatpumps.co.in/

6. CENTRAL COALFIELDS LTD., RANCHI 268

http://ccl.cmpdi.co.in/

7. CENTRAL ELECTRONICS LTD., SHAHIBABAD 269

http://www.sarkaritel.com/psu/central_electronics_limited/

8. CENTRAL MINE PLANNING & DESIGN INSTITUTE LIMITED, RANCHI 270

http://cmpdi.nic.in/

9. CENTRAL WAREHOUSING CORPORATION, NEW DELHI 271

http://www.cewacor.nic.in/

10. CONTAINER CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD., NEW DELHI 272

http://www.concorindia.com/

11. COTTON CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD., MUMBAI 273

http://stc.gov.in/

12. ELECTRONICS CORPORATION OF INDIA, HYDERABAD 274

http://www.ecil.co.in/

13. FERTILIZERS & CHEMICALS LIMITED, KOCHI 275

www.fact.co.in

14. GAIL (INDIA) LTD., NEW DELHI 276

http://gailonline.gov.in/

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15. HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LTD., BANGALORE 277

http://www.hal-india.com/

16. HINDUSTAN ANTIBIOTICS LTD., PIMPRI, PUNE 278

http://www.hindantibiotics.com

17. HINDUSTAN PHOTO FILMS MANUFACTURING CO. LTD., OOTACAMUND 279

http://www.hpf-india.com/

18. H.M.T. LTD., BANGALORE 280

http://www.hmti.com/

19. NATIONAL FERTILIZERS LTD., NOIDA 281

http://www.nationalfertilizers.com/

20. NATIONAL MINERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. , HYDERABAD 282

http://www.nmdc.co.in/

21. NATIONAL SAFAI KARAMCHARIS FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT 283

CORPORATION, NEW DELHI

http:nskfdc.nic.in

22. NATIONAL TEXTILE CORPN. LTD. , NEW DELHI 284

http://www.ntcltd.in/

23. NATIONAL THERMAL POWER CORPORATION LIMITED, NEW DELHI 285

https://www.ntpc.co.in/

24. NEPA LTD. , NEPANAGAR 286

http://www.nepamills.nic.in/

25. OIL & NATURAL GAS CORPORATION (ONGC) LTD., NEW DELHI 287

http://www.ongcindia.com/

26. PEC LIMITED, NEW DELHI 288

http://www.peclimited.com/

27. RASHTRIYA ISPAT NIGAM LTD. (VISHAKHAPATNAM STEEL PROJECT) 289

http://www.vizagsteel.com/

28. SPICES TRADING CORPN. LTD., BANGALORE 290

http://www.stclindia.com/

29. STATE TRADING CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD., NEW DELHI 291

http://stc.gov.in

30. WESTERN COALFIELDS LTD., NAGPUR 292

http//westerncoal.nic.in

STATISTICAL PERSONNEL

Appendix-I

Statistical Personnel in Central Ministries 295-300

Appendix-II

Statistical Personnel in States/UTs 301

Appendix- III

Statistical Personnel in Public Sector Undertakings 302

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OVERVIEW OF INDIAN STATISTICAL SYSTEM

The Indian Statistical System functions within the overall administrative set upof the country. India has a federal structure of Government. The division of responsibilityfor administration between the Union Government and the State Governments is onthe basis of three-fold classification of all subjects, namely, the Union List, the StateList, and the Concurrent List. The last category represents the areas where both theUnion and State Governments can operate. The subject Statistics is in this list. Thereis a further division of responsibility, by subjects or groups of subjects, among thedifferent Ministries/Departments of the Union Government and among the Departmentsof State Governments, on the basis of their administrative functions.

In accordance with this structure, the Indian Statistical System is largelydecentralised with elements of central supervision. All-India large-scale statisticaloperations, such as Population Census, Economic Census, Agricultural Census andLivestock Census, and nation-wide sample surveys, including the Annual Survey ofIndustries and the Socio-Economic Surveys, as well as compilation of macro-economicaggregates like national accounts, All-India Price Indices and industrial production, aremainly Central activities, with substantial involvement of State agencies in data collection.The State Governments and statistical organisations of the States also collect andgenerate data on a number of variables.

The Central Government acts as the coordinating agency for presentation ofstatistics on an all-India basis even in fields where the States have the primary authorityand responsibility for collection of statistics. The Ministry of Statistics and ProgrammeImplementation is the nodal agency for all statistical activities at all-India level. TheState Directorates of Economics and Statistics (DESs) carry out the responsibility ofcoordination of all statistical activities at the State level and keeping liaison with theMOSPI for the purpose of coordination at all-India level, and for maintaining normsand standards in the field of official statistics.

Statistical System at the Centre

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the nodal agencyfor planning and facilitating the integrated development of the statistical system in thecountry, and to lay down norms & standards in the field of official statistics, evolvingconcepts, definitions, classification and methodologies of data collection, processingand release of results. The Ministry has two wings, one relating to Statistics and theother is Programme Implementation. The Statistics Wing called National StatisticalOrganisation (NSO) consists of the Central Statistical Office (CSO), the National SampleSurvey Office (NSSO), and the Computer Centre. The Programme ImplementationWing has four Divisions, namely, Twenty Point Programme Division, InfrastructureMonitoring Division, Project Monitoring Division, and Member of Parliament Local AreaDevelopment Division. The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), which is a premier statisticalinstitute, receives budgetary support from the MOSPI.

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CSO The CSO, headed by a Director General, consists of four Divisions, namely, theNational Accounts Division (NAD), the Economic Statistics Division (ESD), the SocialStatistics Division (SSD) and the Training Division. The CSO has an Industrial StatisticsWing, namely, the CSO-IS Wing, which is located at Kolkata.

The Central Statistical Office is responsible for coordination of statistical activitiesin the country, and for evolving and maintaining statistical standards. Its activitiesinclude National Income Accounting; conduct of Annual Survey of Industries, EconomicCensuses and its follow up surveys, compilation of Index of Industrial Production, aswell as Consumer Price Indices, Gender Statistics, imparting training on Official Statistics,Five Year Plan work relating to Development of Statistics in the States and UnionTerritories; dissemination of statistical information, work relating to trade, energy,construction, and environment statistics, revision of National Industrial Classification,etc.

NSSO: The NSSO functions under the overall direction of a Steering Committee withrequisite independence and autonomy in the matter of collection, processing andpublication of NSS data. In addition to the non-official Chairman, the Steering Committeeis composed of academicians, data users from Central and State Governmentdepartments and senior officers of the Ministry. The NSSO is headed by the DirectorGeneral and Chief Executive Officer (DG&CEO), who is also the Member-Secretary ofthe Steering Committee.

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) carries out socio-economic surveys,undertakes field work for the Annual Survey of Industries and follow-up surveys ofEconomic Census, sample checks on area enumeration and crop estimation surveysand prepares the urban frames useful in drawing of urban samples, besides collectionof price data from rural and urban sectors. The major activities of the NSSO pertain toSurvey Design, Field Operations, Processing of data collected and releasing of theresults based on surveys.

Computer Centre: The Computer Centre handles the data processing jobs of theMOSPI, provides training to statistical personnel on software, maintain the MOSPI’swebsite and the National Data Warehouse of Official Statistics.

Coordination and Administration Division(CAD): This Division is responsiblefor coordination for the National Statistical Office with its two attached offices viz. theCentral Statistical Office (CSO) and National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). It is alsoresponsible for coordination with State Governments/ State statistical agencies.

National Statistical Commission(NSC): Through the Government of IndiaResolution of 1st June 2005, Government has set up a Commission, namely, the NationalStatistical Commission (NSC) consisting of a part-time Chairperson, and four part-timeMembers, one each from the fields of economic statistics, social and environmentstatistics, censuses and surveys, and national accounts and state statistical systems.

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The Secretary, Planning Commission is also a Member in ex-officio capacity. The ChiefStatistician of India serves as the Secretary to the NSC. The mandate of the NSC is toserve as a nodal and empowered body for all core statistical activities of the country, toevolve, monitor and enforce statistical priorities and standards and to ensure statisticalcoordination.

Legal Support for Collection of Data: The Central Government’s Allocation ofBusiness Rules, 1961 (as amended from time to time) provides for the roles andresponsibilities of the MOSPI. The main Statistics Act under which data is collected bythe MOSPI is the ‘Collection of Statistics Act, 2008". The other most important Act forcollection of statistics on demographic aspects of population is the ‘Population CensusAct 1948’, which is administered by the Office of the Registrar General of India,functioning under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Besides these two important Acts,there are a number of Acts, Rules and Procedures being administered by variousadministrative agencies on their subjects, through which statutory returns are collectedby these Ministries/Departments.

Central Ministries / Departments: Besides the NSO at the Centre, most of theMinistries / Departments of the Government of India have either statistical divisions orstatistical cells for all the statistical activities of the Ministry / Department. These Divisions /Cells are mostly manned by officers belonging to two organised Central Services- theIndian Statistical Service (ISS) and the Subordinate Statistical Service (SSS). The Ministryof Statistics and Programme Implementation is the Cadre Controlling Authority for boththese Services, which provides another layer of coordination. Furthermore, theseStatistical Divisions/Cells are headed by senior level statistical functionaries of the ISSat the JAG / SAG level for effective coordination with NSO.

Statistical System in the States / UTs

The Directorates of Economics and Statistics (DESs) in the States / UTs act asthe nodal agencies for coordination of all statistical activities in the States/UTs. Whilemost of the States / UTs have been formally declared by the State Governments as theNodal Agencies on all statistical activities, a few though not yet formally declared, actas coordinating agency on statistical matters in the State/UT. Most of the States / UTshave District Statistical Offices (DSOs) which act as the field offices of the DESs forcollection / compilation of statistical data in the districts. The DESs perform almost thesame functions in the States / UTs as the NSO at the Centre viz. bringing out some keystatistics, coordination with the Central and State statistical agencies, dissemination ofstatistics, etc.

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Statistical System in India 2009

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1. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

The Ministry of Agriculture is broadly responsible for formulation and implementation

of National policies and programmes aimed at achieving rapid agricultural growth through

optimum utilization of the country’s land, water, soil and plant resources; coordination and

promotion of agricultural research & education in the country, and; all matters relating to

livestock production, preservation, protection from diseases and improvement of stocks and

dairy development, and also all matters pertaining to fishing and fisheries. The Ministry consists

of three departments viz. Department of Agriculture and Cooperation; Department of Animal

Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, and; Department of Agricultural Research and Education

(DARE). Each department has its own statistical set-up.

1.01 Department of Agriculture and Cooperation

The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is responsible for the formulation and

implementation of National policies and programmes aimed at achieving rapid agricultural

growth through optimum utilization of the country’s land, water, soil and plant resources. The

Department undertakes all possible measures to ensure timely and adequate supply of inputs

and services such as fertilizers, seeds pesticides, agricultural implements and also provides

agricultural credit, crops insurance and ensures remunerative returns to the farmer for his

agricultural produce. The Department is entrusted with the responsibility of collection and

maintenance of a wide range of statistical and economic data relating to agriculture, required

for development planning, organizing agricultural census, assisting and advising the States in

undertaking scarcity relief measures and in management of natural calamities e.g. flood,

drought, cyclone, etc. Matters relating to formulation of overall cooperative policy in the country,

national cooperative organizations, cooperative training and education come under the purview

of the Department.

Various subject matter Divisions / Directorates / Commission of the department have

their own statistical set up and activities as follows:

1.01.01 Agriculture Census Division

The Agriculture Census Division of the department, established in 1969-70 and headed

by a Joint Secretary, is mainly responsible for organizing the quinquennial agricultural census

and input surveys in the country in collaboration with the State Agricultural Census Units.

There are two main statistical activities of the Division- one is Agriculture Census and

another is Input Survey. These two surveys are conducted after five years interval. The

Agriculture Census forms part of the broader system of collection of Agriculture Statistics. It is

a large –scale statistical operation for the collection and derivation of quantitative information

about the structure of agriculture in the country. As operational holding is the ultimate unit for

taking decision for development of Agriculture at micro level, it is for this reason that an

operational holding and not an ownership holding is taken as the statistical unit of data collection


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for describing the structure of agriculture. In Agriculture Census, aggregation of data is done

at various levels of administrative units, like, Tehsil/Taluk/Block, District and State.

So far seven Agriculture Censuses from 1970-71 and six Input Surveys since 1976-77

have been completed at five yearly intervals. The field work for Eighth Agriculture Census 2005-

06 and Seventh Input Survey 2006-07 in most of the States has been completed and compilation/

validation of data work is in progress.

The Division brings out the following three publications after the quinquennial surveys

of Agriculture Census and Input Surveys are over:

Ø All India Report on Agriculture Census

Ø All India Report on Input Survey

Ø All India Report on Number and Area of Operational Holdings.

The statistical staff in position in the Agriculture Census Division of the Department

is as under:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 2

Total : 9

1.01.02 Directorate of Economics and Statistics

The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), an attached office of the Department

of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC), is headed by Economic & Statistical Adviser. It is entrusted

with the responsibility of collection, collation, dissemination and publication of statistical data

on diverse facets of agriculture and allied sectors, required for planning and policy formulation

by the Government. Various Divisions of the Directorate are headed by officers of SAG level

and supported by officers/staff at various levels. Various Divisions of the Directorate and the

brief on their activities is described hereunder.

(i) Agricultural Statistics Division

As Division of the Directorate of Economics & Statistics maintains State-wise estimates

of area, production and yield of 44 principal crops (27 major and 17 minor). These estimates

are available under the two broad seasons of kharif and rabi. The estimates are updated annually

in the month of February/March after release of final estimates of area, production and yield

of the preceding agricultural year. This Division also carries out an exercise relating to demand

and supply projections of foodgrains and oilseeds and other commercial crops.

(ii) Agricultural Statistics Improvement Division

The Division implements the scheme of “Improvement of Agricultural Statistics (IAS)”.

The basic objective of IAS Scheme is to collect and improve the quality of agricultural statistics


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of principal agricultural and horticultural crops. From 2007-08, the scheme is converted to

Central Sector Scheme from Centrally Sponsored Scheme, and is funded 100% by the Centre.

The scheme has four components as given below:

• Timely Reporting Scheme (TRS): Under this component timely and reliable estimates

of area under principal crops for each of the agricultural seasons are generated on the

basis of complete enumeration of 20% villages selected randomly, within a specific

time frame. TRS is implemented in 16 land record States namely, Andhra Pradesh, Assam,

Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya

Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Jharkhand

and Chattisgarh and two Union Territories namely, Delhi and Puducherry. Implementing

States provide break-up of area under irrigated/un-irrigated and High Yielding Varieties

(HYVs). Agricultural Statistics division does compilation of data.

• Improvement of Crop Statistics (ICS): The objective of ICS component is to improve

the quality of statistics on area and production of crops through checking and supervision

of the work of (a) Area enumeration, (b) Area aggregation and (c) Crop Cutting

Experiments (CCE). Under the component 10,000 villages are covered, equally shared

by Central Agency (NSSO) and State machinery, every year. About 30,000 CCEs are

checked every year. ICS component is implemented in all the TRS States except Delhi.

Agricultural Statistics wing of NSSO does compilation of data.

• Establishment of an Agency for Reporting of Agricultural Statistics (EARAS): EARAS is

implemented in three non-land record States namely, Kerala, Orissa and West Bengal

and four North Eastern States namely, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

In the absence of any Government Department for the regular updation of land records

in these States, full time agency for collection of statistics of area, production and yield

rate has been established in each of the implementing States. The basic methodology

under this component is the same as in TRS.

• Crop Estimation Survey on Fruits & Vegetables (CES-F&V). Under CES-F&V, 11 States

are covered and 7 fruit crops (Apple, Mango, Citrus, Pineapple, Grapes, Banana and

Guava), 5 Vegetable crops (Potato, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Onion and Tomato) and 2

spice crops (Ginger and Turmeric) are covered. Under the component, estimates of

area, production and yield rate for the crops covered by respective States are generated

on the basis of enumeration of area and conduct of Crop Cutting Experiments following

multi stage stratified sampling techniques.

(iii) Cost Study Division

Cost Study Division implements “Comprehensive Scheme for Studying the Cost of

Cultivation of Principal Crops in India”, which is one of the five components under Umbrella

Scheme “Studies on Inputs for Agricultural Economic Policy and Development”. Under the

scheme cost data on principal agricultural crops grown across India is compiled to generate

state-wise and crop-wise Cost of Cultivation and Cost of Production estimates of principal


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crops. The costs are calculated for the crops such as, Barley, Gram, Jute, Lentil, Peas, Rapeseed

& Mustard, Safflower, Sugarcane, Wheat, Arhar (Tur), Bajra, Coconut, Cotton, Groundnut, Jowar,

Maize, Moong, Nigerseed, Onion, Paddy, Potato, Ragi, Seasamum, Soyabean, Sunflower, Tapioca,

Urad, VFC Tobacco.

The prime mandate of this division is to supply cost estimates of different crops to

Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) to enable them to make suitable

recommendations on Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) of 24 agricultural commodities, namely

Paddy, Jowar, Bajra, Maize, Ragi, Arhar (Tur), Moong, Urad, Cotton, Goundnut, Sunflower seed,

Soyabean, Sesamum, Nigerseed, Wheat, Barley, Gram, Masur (Lentil), Rapeseed & Mustard,

Safflower, Copra, Jute, Sugarcane and Tobacco to the Government of India.

The 16 Agricultural/general Universities/Colleges and the Directorate of Tobacco

Development, through which the scheme is implemented, collect the primary data on Cost of

Cultivation in the states: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,

Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Uttar

Pradesh, West Bengal, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttranchal.

(iv) Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS) Division

The work of Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS) Division relates mainly to

collection and compilation of State and District wise data on Land Use Statistics (LUS) and

Area, Production and Yield data. Besides these, SDDS Division also computes data on quarterly

production of selected crops on the basis of advance estimates of production and also generates

report for CSO.

(v) Prices and Markets Division

• Agricultural Prices: The Division collects data on Wholesale Prices, Retail Prices, Farm

Harvest Prices and Market Arrivals of selected agricultural commodities from all over

India. Weekly wholesale prices of 154 agricultural commodities are collected from

around 600 selected markets/centres. The Division also collects weekly retail prices of

45 food items and monthly retail prices of 43 non-food items from 87 selected markets/

centres covering 32 States and UTs. The prices are collected for week on each Friday. It

also collects farm harvest prices for 26 principal crops from all major States and 5 UTs

annually. The prices of 14 essential commodities viz. rice, wheat, atta, gram dal, tur

dal, sugar, groundnut oil, mustard oil, vanaspati, tea, milk, potato, onion, and salt are

collected and monitored by the Department of Consumer Affairs.

• Agricultural Wages: Agricultural wages constitute one of the major items of cost of

production of various crops. Consequently, data on agricultural wages prevailing in the

selected villages /centres, spread over the length and breadth of the country, is collected

by DES on the monthly basis. The wage data relate to the agricultural year, i.e. July-

June. The wages are paid in both cash and kind. Money value of the wages paid in kind

is added to get the total wage. Such information on prevailing wages is collected from


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each District of the State. In total 17 States are covered for collection of data on

agricultural wages. Statistics relating to wages paid to different types of agricultural

and skilled rural labour at selected centres are collected and compiled by the Division.

Based on the activities of various Divisions, the Directorate brings out the following

publications:

Ø District -wise Area, Production and yield.

Ø District-wise land Use Statistics.

Ø State-wise Land Use Statistics.

Ø Agricultural Statistics at a Glance.

Ø Farm Harvest Prices of Principal Crops.

Ø Agricultural Prices in India.

Ø Agricultural Wages in India.

Ø Cost of cultivation of Principal Crops in India.

Ø Quarterly Bulletin of Market Arrivals of Selected Foodgrains and

Commercial Crops from Selected Villages/Centres

The statistical staff in position in the Directorate of Economics & Statistics is as under;

Professional : 14

Intermediate : 18

Primary : 3

Total : 35

1.01.03 Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices

The Agricultural Prices Commission was set up in January, 1965 to advise the

Government on price policy of major agricultural commodities with a view to evolving a balanced

and integrated price structure in the perspective of the overall needs of the economy and with

due regard to the interests of the producer and the consumer. Since March 1985, the

Commission has been known as Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices. Currently, 24

agricultural commodities are covered under the mandate given to the CACP for advising the

Government in respect of the price policy. Minimum support prices (MSP) for major agricultural

products are fixed by the Government, each year, after taking into account the recommendations

of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP).

For formulating its recommendations, the Commission analyses a wide spectrum of

data, covering the costs of cultivation/ production, trends and spread of input use, production

and productivity of the crop concerned, market prices, both domestic and global, inter-crop

price parity emerging supply-demand situation, procurement and distribution, effects on

industrial cost structure, cost of living, general price level and effect on issue prices and

implications of subsidy, etc. The basic data are generally collected from the Directorate of

Economics and Statistics, State Governments, Central Ministries and the nodal agencies

concerned with the implementation of agricultural price policy.


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The CACP publishes reports on price policy of different crops regularly and annually.

Though these reports/publications are not statistical publications as such; they contain lot of

statistical information and analysis. The following latest publications in each of the subject are

under print:

Ø Report on Price Policy for Sugarcane for Marketing season 2008-09.

Ø Report on Price Policy for Kharif Crops of 2008-09 Season

Ø Reports on Price Policy for Copra for the 2008-09 Season

Ø Report on Price Policy for Rabi Crops of 2008-09 Season

Ø Report on Price Policy for Jute of 2008-09 Season

The statistical staff in position of CACP is as under:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 4

Primary: 1

Total: 6

1.01.04 Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, Faridabad

Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) in the Department of Agriculture and

Cooperation is mainly responsible for Promotion of Standardization and Grading of Agricultural

and allied produce under the provisions of Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marketing) Act,

1937; Marketing Research, Surveys and Planning; Training of Personnel in Agricultural Marketing;

Advising States on Regulation and Management of Agricultural Produce Markets; Marketing

Extension; Agricultural Marketing Information Networks; Construction of Rural Godowns &

Promotion of Cold Storage, and; Development/ Strengthening of Agricultural Marketing

Infrastructure, Grading and Standardization.

The Statistical Division in the DMI attends to the work of collection, compilation,

processing and analysis of data relating to grading statistics (i.e. Agmark grading of agricultural

produce of Domestic Trade and Export, and grading at Producers’ Level), Regulated and

Wholesale markets in India; etc.

The Grading Statistics is published every year in a Bulletin titled “Agmark Grading

Statistics”.

The statistical staff in position in DMI is as under:

Professional: 2

Intermediate: 2

Primary: 5

Total: 9


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1.01.05 Directorate of Cashewnut and Cocoa Development

The Directorate of Cashewnut Development (DCD) was established in 1966 as a

subordinate office of the Ministry of Agriculture with the primary objective of promoting cashew

cultivation in the country with an outlook of increasing the production and productivity. Since

its inception, DCD has been taking efforts for the overall development of cashew in India. In

1997 the crop of cocoa was also transferred to this Directorate and the organization is renamed

as Directorate of Cashewnut and Cocoa Development (DCCD). The development aspect of cocoa

is also now looked after by the Directorate.

Since its inception, the Directorate has maintained a data bank on area, production,

export, import and price trends along with world scenario of the crops being dealt by it. There

exists a ‘Crop Information and Publicity Section’, headed by Statistical Investigator. The nature

of duty of this section is to collect data from various State Government Agencies, Research

Institutions and other concerned institutes, and compile the same for onward transmission to

Ministry and other agencies as and when needed so as to chalk out future plan of action. The

Directorate also works out Demand Projection of each crop by taking into account world demand

and consumption data, collected from various agencies.

The Directorate regularly brings out a quarterly journal in English “The Cashew” which

contains statistical data on area, production, productivity, export, import and price trends of

cashew.

The statistical staff in position in Directorate of Cashewnut and Cocoa Development is

as under:

Professional : 0

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 0

Total : 1

1.01.06 National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development Board

The National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development (NOVOD) Board was constituted

in March, 1984 under the National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development Board Act, 1983

as a statutory body for the Integrated Development of Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Industry in

the country. The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is the administrative department

for the NOVOD Board. The apex body consists of 36 members drawn from different organizations

headed by the Union Minister of Agriculture as Chairman and the Secretary, Agriculture and

Cooperation, Government of India as Vice-Chairman. The Board has its headquarters at Gurgaon,

Haryana.

The Board is implementing a Central Sector Scheme ‘Integrated Development of Tree

Borne Oilseeds (TBOs)” in the entire country for exploring the existing potential and

augumenting the future potential of TBOs like sal, mahua, neem, simaroube, karanja, jetropha,

jojoba, cheura, wild apricot, walnut and tung etc.


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The Economics & Statistics Division is required to assist in compilation of Annual Report

of NOVOD Board, maintain/ update NOVOD website, and workout the cost-economics of various

TBOs in consultation with oilseeds and projects divisions of the Board.

The statistical staff in position in NOVOD is as under:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1

1.01.07 Directorate of Rice Development, Patna (Agri & Coop)

The Directorate of Rice Development, a subordinate office of the Department of

Agriculture & Co-Operation is responsible to popularize the latest high yielding varieties of rice

among the farmers of different rice growing eco-systems in various states of the country, through

demonstration trials and also arranging training programmes to impart trainings to the

Agriculture Extension Officers (AEO) about the latest improved production technology evolved

by the Agriculture Scientist. The AEOs further go to the farmers in their assigned rice growing

areas and transfer to them the latest technique and knowledge of improved production

technology for increasing productivity and production of rice.

There is no statistical Section/Division in the Directorate. However, there is one Statistical

Investigator in the Directorate. It carry out the statistical activities like : collection, compilation,

and analysis of State-wise and District-wise data relating to area, production, and yield of rice

under High Yielding and Hybrid Varieties; maintenance of records of weekly rainfall data of the

Nodal State and report received from Crop Developmental Directorates; preparation of weekly

report on State-wise area coverage of rice, area coverage under all crops in respect of Bihar,

Jharkhand & Orissa, weather watch report, crop prospects and market price report in respect

of rice; etc.

The Directorate brings out the following two statistical publications:

Annual: Rice in India — A Handbook of Statistics

Adhoc: Productivity Status of rice during Ninth Plan

Statistical manpower in position in the Directorate is given below:

Professional : 0

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 1

Total : 1

1.01.08 Horticulture Division

The Horticulture Division is mandated to look after all aspects of horticulture sector,

which has emerged as an indispensable part of agriculture, offering a wide range of choice of


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crop diversification, sustaining a large number of agro industries which generate employment

opportunities. It is concerned with the holistic development of the sector including the

availability of planting material, promoting large investments for modern methods of grading,

post-harvest management, development of cold chains, etc. India has a substantial area under

fruits and vegetables. This division is concerned with the promotion of all aspects of horticulture

crops including area and productivity of fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, plantation, medicinal

and aromatic plants and honey.

At present, Horticulture Division has only one post of Adviser (Horticulture Statistics)

for strengthening statistical system of this sector. A complete subordinate structure is yet to

be established. The main activity is to create horticulture data base, for which the State

Horticulture Departments are requested to send data on area and production of horticulture

crops. Such data are provided by the State Horticulture Departments which varies substantially

in terms of presentation and content, based on the development of horticulture statistics in

the State. Data are reported by States to National Horticulture Board (NHB) which is forwarded

to this division. Data received from the States is examined and validated before release for

official use, after approval of Review Committee under the Chairmanship of Principal Adviser

of this Department. This Division aims to create Horticulture Information System in the States

and Centre for flow of timely, consistent and reliable horticulture data.

The NHB brings out an annual publication entitled “Indian Horticulture Database”. Issue

for the year 2008 of this publication has been released. This division release horticulture data

on area and production for official use.

Statistical staff in position in the Division is as follows:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1

1.02 Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (DADF)

The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries (DADF) came into existence

w.e.f. 1st February, 1991, by converting two divisions of the Department of Agriculture and

Cooperation namely Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development into a separate Department.

The Fisheries Division of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation and a part of the

Ministry of Food Processing Industries were later transferred to this Department w.e.f. 10th

October, 1997. The Department is responsible for matters relating to livestock production,

preservation, protection from disease and improvement of stocks and dairy development, and

also for matters relating to the Delhi Milk Scheme and the National Dairy Development Board.

It also looks after all matters pertaining to fishing and fisheries, inland and marine.

The statistical activities of the Department are carried in its two major divisions namely

Animal Husbandry Statistics Division and Fisheries Division. The Animal Husbandry Statistics


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Division implements three schemes namely Integrated Sample Surveys for Estimation of major

Livestock Products, Livestock Census and Livestock Insurance. While the first two schemes are

central sector schemes and the last scheme is the Centrally Sponsored scheme.

The Animal Husbandry Statistics Division of the Department conducts Integrated Sample

Surveys to estimate productions of major livestock products viz. milk, egg, meat and wool. It

also collects other livestock statistics through interaction with State Governments and other

Central departments/ organizations concerned with development of the Livestock Sector. Major

Livestock products like milk, eggs, meat & wool are estimated on the basis of sample surveys

being conducted throughout the year under the Central Scheme “Integrated Sample Survey

for the Estimation of Major Livestock Products”. All the States and Union Territories are

implementing the scheme. Surveys are done throughout India and round the year, whereas

data are collected generally by camping in the sampled villages.

The Livestock Census, which gives livestock population of different species, earlier

conducted quinquennially by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics in the Department of

Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture with the help of different agencies in

States/UTs, has been transferred to Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Ministry of

Agriculture from the 17th Livestock Census conducted in October 2003. The 18th Livestock Census

was conducted in October 2007 in major parts of the country and the processing of data is in

progress.

The Fisheries Statistics Division of the Department deals with all matters concerning

fisheries statistics like collection, compilation, analysis and publication of fish production, fish

exports etc. The Division implements a central sector scheme on “Strengthening of Database

and Information Networking for the Fisheries Sector” with the following objectives:

• To improve the database of inland and marine fisheries resources and catch of fish by

adoption of standardized methodology of data collection through sample survey for

estimation of inland fisheries resources like ponds and tanks, lakes and reservoirs, rivers,

lagoons, estuaries, etc. and inland as well as marine fish catch in all the States/UTs.

• To improve Information Technology System in the States/UT’s as well as National level

Fishery Institutes so that data collection and their analysis can be done efficiently and

effectively.

• To conduct census of Inland as well as Marine Fisheries.

The statistical publications brought out by the Department are:

Ø Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics

Ø All India Summary Reports of Livestock Census; State Reports; UT Reports

The statistical staff in position in Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and

Fisheries is as under;


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Professional : 12

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 6

Total : 21

1.02.01 Coastal Aquaculture Authority

The Coastal Aquaculture Authority is a subordinate office of the Department of Animal

Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries responsible for regulating the activities connected with

coastal aquaculture in coastal areas and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. It

is mandated to take all such measures as it deems necessary or expedient for regulation of

coastal aquaculture by prescribing guidelines, to ensure that coastal aquaculture does not

cause any detriment to the coastal environment and the concept of responsible coastal

aquaculture shall be followed in regulating coastal aquaculture activities to protect the livelihood

of various sections of people living in the coastal areas.

There is no statistical set up in the “Authority”.

1.03 Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE)

The Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) was established in the

Ministry of Agriculture in December 1973 with the objective of promoting agricultural research

and education in the country. The Department is also the nodal agency for international

cooperation in the area of agricultural research and education in India. The DARE provides the

necessary Government linkages for the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the

premier research organization with a scientific strength of over 600, with a countrywide network

of institutions.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is an apex organization at the national level

for promoting Science and Technology Programmes in the agricultural research and education.

It was set up on 16 July 1929 as the Registered Society under the Societies Registration Act

1860, on the recommendations of the Royal Commission of Agriculture. It was reorganized

twice, in 1965 and 1973.

The Research set-up of the ICAR includes 48 Institutes, 5 National Bureau, 12 Project

Directorates, 32 National Research Centres, and 62 All-India Co-ordinated Research Projects.

Although DARE has no statistical set up of its own, some of the organizations under

ICAR carry out statistical activities and have a statistical set up.

1.03.01 Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Orissa

The Institute was established by Government of India in 1946 at Cuttack under the

administrative control of Indian Council of Agricultural Research primarily to conduct basic,

applied and adaptive research on crop improvement and resource management for increasing


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and stabilizing rice productivity. At present the Institute has five divisions namely; Crop

Improvement, Crop Production, Crop Protection, Biochemistry, Plant Physiology &

environmental sciences and Social Sciences, Extension, Communication & Training with two

substations (one at Hazaribagh, Jharkhand and one at Gerua, Assam) and two Krishi Vigyan

Kendras (KVKs) of which one is operational at Cuttack and the other at Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The Statistics Section is service oriented unit to provide statistical input such as laying

out the experimental designs, analysis and their interpretations to research workers of the

Institute. This Section also imparts knowledge based training on statistical aspects to scientists

and subject matter specialists as and when required.

As the Section is purely service oriented, no publications are brought out either on

regular basis or on ad-hoc basis.

The statistical staff in position at CRRI is as under:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 1

Total : 2

1.03.02 Indian Institute of Horticulture Research, Bangalore

The Indian Institute of Horticulture Research is responsible for undertaking basic and

applied research for developing strategies to enhance productivity and utilization of tropical

and sub-tropical horticultural crops viz. fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, medicinal and aromatic

and mushrooms and acts as a centre for training for upgradation of scientific manpower in

modern technologies for horticultural production. There are 12 broad research divisions in

the Institute and three experimental stations with one Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK). Statistics

lab is covered under the section of Economics and Statistics in the division of Extension &

Training.

The Economic and Statistics Section undertakes basic and applied research in the field

of agricultural statistics as applied to horticultural crops and provide statistical consultancy to

all the Institute’s research projects. Statistical consultancy to Institutes projects include,

planning, analysis and interpretation of in-house research projects in different fields of

horticulture and allied subjects; statistical research assistance in externally funded projects

being operative from Institute; planning, analysis and interpretation of Ph.D. student’s (attached

with Institute Scientists) research work; statistical training program for Institute scientists in

handling day-to-day statistical tools in their research project analysis; assistance to M.Sc and

Ph.D students of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore as a teaching faculty, inter-

institute collaboration with Central Silk Board, Bangalore for imparting statistical training

program; etc.

No statistical publications are brought out by the Indian Institute of Horticultural

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The statistical staff in position in the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research is as

under:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 0

Total : 3

1.03.03 Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad

The Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), undertakes basic and

applied research that contributes to the development of strategies for sustainable farming

system in the rainfed areas; acts as a repository of information on rainfed agriculture in the

country, and; provides leadership and coordinate network research with the State Agricultural

Universities for generating location specific technologies for rainfed areas.

There is no Statistical Unit/Division/Section in the CRIDA. However, since the inception

of CRIDA, there is a Section called ‘Section of Design & Analysis’. Generally, scientists of

Agricultural Statistics in CRIDA work in this Section. They do basic and strategic research in

Agricultural Statistics to rainfed agriculture. They do provide consultancy in planning the research

experiments and guide in statistical analysis of the data derived from such experiments/ sample

surveys of the scientists in other disciplines of the Institute.

No statistical publications are brought out by the Institute.

The statistical staff in position in the CRIDA is as under:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 0

Total : 2

1.03.04 Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, West Bengal

The Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) is the oldest premier research

institute established in 1947. The Institute was reorganized by ICAR in 1987 with research in

open water fishery management as its main mandate. Main objective of the Institute is to

conduct investigation for a proper appraisal of inland fisheries resources of the country and to

evolve suitable methods for their conservation and optimum utilization.

Institute has head quarter at Barrackpore with four regional centres located at Allahabad,

Bangalore, Vadodra and Guwahati. The Institute has three divisions namely, Fisheries Resource

and Environnement Management, Riverine Ecology and Fisheries and Reservoir & Wetland Fisheries.

Out of total sanctioned cadre strength of 95 scientist in the Institue, it has a cadre of

seven scientists in agricultural statistics who are associated with different division, providing

support back up to specific projects in development of methodologies for estimation of resource


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and catch, survey of the resources using modern techniques, statistical analysis and interpretation

of data collected under research projects, specifically on ecological parameters; fish population

dynamics; and other related studies, and; development of fish population models.

No statistical publications are brought out by the Institute. However, a number of special

bulletins on development of methodology for estimation of fish catch from inland water resources

and their application have been brought out by the Institute.

The statistical staff in position in CIFRI is as under:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 5

Total : 11

1.03.05 Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi

The Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) is mainly responsible for

conducting basic, applied and adaptive research in agricultural statistics and computer

application; developing trained manpower and to dissemination of knowledge and information

produced, so as to meet the methodological challenges of agricultural research, and, to improve

the quality of agricultural research in the country. The Institute is also becoming progressively

a repository of information on agricultural research data and has taken a lead in the country in

developing a data warehouse on agricultural research. The Institute also occupies a place of

pride in the National Agricultural Statistics System and has made several important contributions

in the strengthening of the National Agricultural Statistics System, which has a direct impact

on the national policies.

The Institute had been earlier organizing four professional courses in statistics namely

Professional Statisticians’ Certificate Course (PSCC), Senior Certificate Course (SCC), Junior

Certificate Course (JCC) and Post Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Statistics. The PSCC and SCC

courses were of one year duration while JCC was of six months duration. The Post Graduate

Diploma Course was of one year duration, in which the students were required to conduct

research for one year. These courses were providing a linkage of the Institute with State

Departments of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. Due to various reasons, these courses were

discontinued. Later on, in view of growing demand from various quarters, the Institute revived

the Senior Certificate Course in ‘Agricultural Statistics and Computing’ in 1997 with appropriate

changes in the course curriculum in Agricultural Statistics with adequate exposure of Computer

Application.

The Institute has following six Divisions, two Units and three Cells to undertake research,

training, consultancy, documentation and dissemination of scientific output.

Divisions

i. Sample Survey

ii. Design of Experiments


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iii. Biometrics

iv. Forecasting Techniques

v. Econometrics

vi. Computer Applications

Units

a) Research Co-ordination and Management Unit (RCMU)

b) Institute Technology Management Unit (ITMU)

Cells

(a) Training Administration Cell (TAC)

(b) Consultancy Processing Cell (CPC)

(c) Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Cell (PMEC)

The statistical publications brought out by the Institute are:

Annual:

Ø Data Book

Ø Proceedings of National Conferences of Agricultural Research

Statisticians (brought out once in three years)

The statistical staff in position in IASRI is as under:

Professional : 88

Intermediate : 98

Primary : 10

Total : 196

1.03.06 Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore

Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, one of the pioneering breeding institutes in

the world, was established in 1912, with the main objective of evolving superior varieties of

sugarcane suitable for various agro climatic zones in India. Indian varieties are being grown

and used as breeding stocks in 26 other countries in the world as well. In addition to the major

role as the source of improved varieties for the nation, the Institute also conducts research in

the areas of crop production and crop protection.

The Statistics Unit of the Institute was originally established in February 1972 with a

Junior Statistician and Senior Research Assistant under the Crop Improvement Division.

Currently the Unit is an independent Section and has one Principal Scientist (Statistics) and

One Scientist (Agricultural Economics). There are 2 technical officers. The Statistics Section is

mainly responsible for taking up independent research projects related to evaluation of released

sugarcane varieties and on cost of cultivation aspects; carrying out analysis of data emanating

from the research projects of various divisions / sections and also the All India Coordinated


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Research Projects (Sugarcane) and related consultancy for experimentation and analysis;

maintaining database on sugarcane genetic resources and parents of superior clones evolved

over the past several years; developing need-based application programme for data analysis

and database management; and maintaining the ARIS (Agricultural Research Information

System) and the Institute web site.

No publications are brought out by the Statistics Section of the Institute.

The statistical staff in position in Sugarcane Breeding Institute is as under:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 0

Total : 4

1.03.07 National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, U.P.

The National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) was established in December

1983 at Allahabad under Indian Council of Agricultural Research to undertake research related

to the conservation of fish germplasm resources of the country. Later, the Bureau shifted to

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in 1999. At present apart from its headquarter at Lucknow, it has two

research units at Chinahat, Lucknow and CMFRI, Cochin, Kerala.

No separate Statistical Section /Division/ Unit is functioning in the Institute. Only one

Scientist (Agriculture Statistics) is in position, working in Fish Taxonomy and Resource Division.

He provides consultancy and advisory services to plan, design and analysis work relating to

research projects of NBFGR and data generated. He also plan and execute the research projects

in the area of the fish conservation, management and legislations.

No statistical publications are brought out by the National Bureau of Fish Genetic

Resources.

The statistical staff in position in the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources is as

under:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1

1.03.08 National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad

The National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NARS) is primarily

responsible for developing learning resources and systems; research in agricultural innovation

systems, policies and management; facilitating organizational renewal and management of

change, and; provides techniques, technology and information to facilitate policy support to

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Statistics discipline is a part of Information and Communication Management (ICM)

Division. The scientists and technical staff of statistics discipline extends support to other

scientists in statistical data analysis; giving training in using statistical software packages to the

foundation course scientist trainees and in general to the scientists and faculty of NARS and

developing GIS based applications in agriculture, using statistical methods.

No statistical publications are brought out by the National Academy of Agricultural

Research Management.

The statistical staff in position in the NARS is as under:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 1

Total : 4

1.03.09 Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad

The Directorate of Oilseeds Research (DOR) is a national organization under the aegis

of the Crop Science Division of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. It has the

responsibility to plan, coordinate and execute the research programmes to augment the

production and productivity of sunflower, safflower and castor.

The Statistical Unit under Social Sciences Section of DOR, manned by the Statisticians,

carries out the research projects. They assist the scientists of other disciplines of this directorate

in suggesting about the design of the experimental trials and analyzing the data statistically.

They also do the statistical analysis of the data received from the cooperating centres under

AICRP, Sunflower, Safflower and Castor for inclusion in the Annual Progress Reports. Statistics

oriented projects such as biometrical approach to develop castor core collection; development

of indices for yield and stability in selection of castor cultivars; tracing of Pedigree and statistical

parameters; determination of size and shape of plots in castor, sunflower and safflower and

compilation, statistical analysis and tabulation of the multilocational AICRP data of breeding,

Agronomy, Entomology and Pathology trials for three mandate crops viz., castor, sunflower

and safflower, are also carried out by the Statistical Unit.

No specific statistical publications are brought out by the Directorate. However, the

statisticians of the institute contribute research paper on statistical analysis in different journals

and periodicals.

The statistical staff in position in the Directorate of Oilseeds Research is as under:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 2


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1.03.10 Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, UP

The Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar founded in 1889, is one of the

premier institutions in veterinary and animal sciences in the world and the oldest among the

institutions governed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Besides the main campus,

three regional stations at Kolkata, Palampur and Srinagar and two full-fledged campuses at

Mukteshwar in Uttaranchal and Bangalore in Karnataka are the other functional units of the

Institute dedicated to livestock research and development.

The Institute is primarily responsible for conducting research, providing Post Graduate

education and transfer of the technology in all areas of animal sciences with emphasis on

animal health and production. It also acts as a national referral centre for veterinary type culture,

disease diagnosis, biological immunodiagnostics, etc.

The Division of Livestock Economics & Statistics, which was a Central Statistical Section

in 1957-58, gained its importance over the period of time and became a full-fledged Division in

2004. The Division consists of three main Sections, namely (i) Livestock Economics & Marketing;

(ii) Bio-Statistics; and (iii) Computer and Livestock Information Technology for smooth

functioning of the Division. The role and functions of the Division are to conduct research,

Post-Graduate education and transfer of techniques in the field of Bio-Statistics, Livestock

Economics, Information Technology and Electronic Data Processing applicable to animal

sciences. The Division also provides statistical advice and help to different Post-Graduate and

Divisional research projects of the Institute besides developing statistical methodologies suitable

to animal husbandry and animal health.

A publication ‘Data Book on Livestock Statistics’ is published every year from 2007,

which contains information pertaining to livestock sector.

The statistical staff in position in the Indian Veterinary Research Institute is as under:

Professional : 6

Intermediate : 5

Primary : 2

Total : 13

1.03.11 Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasargod, Kerala

The Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) is responsible for developing

appropriate production, protection and processing technologies for coconut, arecanut and

cocoa through basic and applied research; producing parental lines and breeder’s stock, and;

developing improved palm based cropping/ farming systems. The Institute also acts as a national

repository for the genetic resources of these crops. It collects, collate and disseminate

information on the mandate crops, co-ordinate research on the mandate crops, and transfer

of technologies, developed at CPCRI, to the farmers.

CPCRI has a Statistical Section at its Headquarters at Kasaragod, Kerala; and at two of


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its Regional Stations at Kayangulam (Kerala) and Vital (Karnataka). The Statistical Section

functions as part of the Social Sciences Division. The Scientist and Technical Officers in the

Statistics Section are involved in planning of experiments, analysis of data and offer consultancy

of scientists of other sections. The key functions of the Statistics Section of the Institute are

planning of field and laboratory experiments; analysis of experimental data; undertake pilot

scale surveys for forecasting of coconut production; conducting sample surveys for estimating

yield loss due to pests and diseases; maintenance of data-base on crop statistics as well as

information system on farming / processing technologies; consultancy for external agencies;

training programme on statistical data analysis; guiding Post-Graduate students of Kanpur

University and Mangalore University, and academic collaboration with neighbouring Universities

and State Agricultural Universities.

No periodic publication is brought out by the Section. However, the Statisticians of the

Sections bring Technical Bulletin and papers in journals.

The statistical staff in position in the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute is as

under:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 0

Total : 5

1.03.12 National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi

The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) is an organization of ICAR

responsible for planning, organizing and coordinating exploration and collection of indigenous

and exotic plant genetic resources; undertaking introduction, exchange and quarantine of plant

genetic resources; characterizing , evaluating, documenting and conserving crop genetic

resources and promoting their use; conducting research, undertaking teaching and training,

developing guidance and creating public awareness on plant genetic resources; etc.

The statistical activities of the Bureau are carried out in the Division of Germplasm

Evaluation, and all the statistical personnel are part of this Division. The statistical section of

the Bureau carries out analysis for the evaluated plant germplasm trail data; suggest the layout

for the plant germplasm evaluation trail; conducts statistical studies in the plant germplasm

conservation & management; etc.

The Bureau brings out an annual publication, named Annual Report of the Evaluation

of the Agri-horticultural Crops.

The statistical staff in position in the Bureau is as under:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : -

Primary : -

Total : 3


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2. MINISTRY OF CHEMICAL AND FERTILIZERS

The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers is the administrative Ministry of three

departments namely Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Department of Fertilizers,

and Department of Pharmaceuticals.

2.01 Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals

The Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals is broadly responsible for formulating

and implementing policies and programmes for achieving growth and development of the

chemicals and petrochemical sectors in the country. The Department has the mandate to deal

with all organic and inorganic chemicals, Dyestuffs and Dye Intermediates, Bhopal Gas Leak

Disaster-Special Laws relating thereto; Petrochemicals, Planning, Development and control of,

and assistance to, all industries being dealt with by the Department; Synthetic Rubber; and

Plastics including fabrications of plastic and molded goods.

2.02 Department of Pharmaceuticals

A separate Department of Pharmaceuticals within the Ministry of Chemicals &

Fertilizers was created in July 2008, to provide greater focus the pharmaceuticals industry.

The Department is responsible for promotion and co-ordination of basic, applied and other

research in areas related to the pharmaceuticals sector; development of infrastructure,

manpower and skills for the pharmaceuticals sector and management of related information;

education and training including high end research and grant of fellowships in India and

abroad, exchange of information and technical guidance on all matters relating to

pharmaceutical sector; international cooperation in pharmaceutical research; technical

support for dealing with national hazards in pharmaceutical sector. and; all matters relating

to National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority including related functions of price control/

monitoring.

The ‘Statistics and Monitoring Division’ that existed in the undivided Department of

Chemicals and Petrochemicals caters to statistical functions and statistical activities of the two

departments’ viz Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, and Department of

Pharmaceuticals. In addition, it substantially takes care of statistical functions and activities of

National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority. The Division is engaged in the monitoring of various

important chemicals, petrochemical and pharmaceutical products. Production data relating to

chemicals and petrochemical is submitted voluntarily by various chemicals and petrochemical

producing companies in the organized sector every month in the prescribed proforma. The

data so received is compiled, collated and analyzed. National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority,

an attached office of the Department of Pharmaceuticals is responsible for monitoring the

production data of 96 bulk drugs classified in 21 broad categories. The functions of the Division

includes undertaking the first ever Pharmaceutical Census of India; enforcing statistical

standards, norms, data quality; analyzing state-specific reports on issues concerning the

Department and preparing analytical reports; bringing out the first ever Pharmaceutical

Directory of India; tracking & analyzing price movements, international trade of Chemicals,


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Petrochemicals & Pharmaceuticals, and; analyzing international trade of Chemicals,

Petrochemicals & Pharmaceuticals.

The statistical publications brought out by the Department are:

Ø Performance of Chemicals & Petrochemicals Industry at a Glance

Ø Directory of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Units in India

The statistical manpower in position in both the Departments as well as NPPA is given

below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 4

Total : 6

2.03 Department of Fertilizer

The Department of Fertilizer in the Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizer is mainly

responsible for formulating medium and long term fertilizer policy; planning for fertilizer

production domestically and import of controlled fertilizers; administration of financial

concessions/support for controlled and decontrolled fertilizers including periodic revision in

retention price of urea, concession rate for decontrolled fertilizers and costing/pricing of such

fertilizers; administration of fertilizers (Movement and Control) Order, 1973, planning

presentation and the usage of bio-fertilizers, micro-nutrient and organic manure/municipal

waste in the country, and; administrative responsibility of public enterprises and cooperative

sector undertakings in the fertilizer sector.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Division in the Department of Fertilizer is primarily

responsible for economic and statistical activities. Another Division viz. Production and Import,

dealing with the production data of various types of fertilizers produced by the fertilizer

Companies/Cooperative and Imports, also maintain statistics on various aspects.

For the first time the Department has brought out a publication namely “Indian Fertilizer

Scenario 2008” which includes statistical information about demand, production, import and

consumption of various types of Fertilizers.

The statistical manpower in position in Department of Fertilizer is as follows:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 1

Primary : -

Total : 3


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3. MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION

Ministry of Civil Aviation is the nodal Ministry responsible for the formulation of national

policies and programmes for development and regulation of Civil Aviation, and for devising

and implementing schemes for the orderly growth and expansion of civil air transport. Its

functions also extend to overseeing airport facilities, air traffic services and carriage of

passengers and goods by air. The Ministry also administers implementation of the Aircraft Act,

1934 and is administratively responsible for the Commission of Railways Safety, a statutory

body set up under The Indian Railways Act.

3.00.01 Directorate General of Civil Aviation

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), an attached office under Ministry of Civil

Aviation, is responsible for safety oversight system in the civil aviation sector besides promoting

safe and efficient Air Transportation through regulation and also has international obligation

to International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Besides these functions in the field of civil

aviation, DGCA is also mandated to maintain the Civil Aviation Statistics at the national level

and also furnishing periodic returns to ICAO.

Statistical Division of the Director General of Civil Aviation is headed by a Junior

Administrative Grade officer of Indian Statistical Service (ISS) is assisted by four ISS Officers

(each two posts of STS and JTS) and four SSS officers (each two post of Grade II/I and II/IV).

Statistical Division functions under the Air Transport-II. Directorate General is responsible for

maintaining civil aviation traffic statistics at national level. Besides this, Statistical Division is

furnishing data on various aspects, relating to civil aviation statistics to the Ministry of Civil

Aviation.

Statistical Division of the Director General of Civil Aviation is responsible for maintaining

civil aviation traffic statistics. This Division collects data pertaining to Civil Aviation from various

sources viz. Air India, Air India Express, Indian Airlines, alliance, Private Operators, Foreign

Airlines, Non-Scheduled Operators, Scheduled/Ad hoc Cargo Operators and various airports

managed by Airport Authority of India. The data thus collected are compiled and processed

and are then published annually in a publication entitled “India Air Transport Statistics”.

This division publishes an annual publication entitled “India Air Transport Statistics”.

The main objective of “India Air Transport Statistics” is to provide a clear picture of the

performance of air traffic in India and to study trends thereof. The publication includes traffic

statistics in respect of scheduled and non-scheduled air services of domestic as well as foreign

carriers, detailed information on fleet strength, aircraft utilization, staff strength, financial

results of Air India, Indian Airlines and Airport statistics for both international and domestic

airports. Further, it includes statistics in respect of international traffic to/from India to various

countries, domestic traffic carried by scheduled, non-scheduled and air taxi operators and

traffic carried on tourist charter flights and flights operated under Open Sky Policy for all-cargo

services.


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The statistical manpower in position in the Director General of Civil Aviation is as follow:

Professional : 5

Intermediate : 4

Primary : 0

Total : 9

3.00.02 Bureau of Civil Aviation Security

The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, an attached office of the Ministry of Civil Aviation,

is responsible for laying down the standards for pre-embarkation security and anti sabotage

measures in respect of civil flights and ensuring their compliance through regular inspection

and security audits. The aim of BSAS is to safeguard Civil Aviation operations against unlawful

interference.

The Bureau does not have any statistical set-up/manpower.

3.00.03 Airports Authority of India

Airports Authority of India (AAI) was constituted by an Act of Parliament and came into

being on 1st April, 1995 by merging erstwhile National Airports Authority and International

Airports Authority of India. It is mainly responsible for:

• Control and management of the Indian airspace extending beyond the territorial limits

of the country, as accepted by ICAO.

• Design, Development, Operation and Maintenance of International and Domestic

Airports and Civil Enclaves;

• Construction, Modification and Management of Passenger Terminals;

• Development and Management of Cargo Terminals at International and Domestic

Airports;

• Provision of Passenger facilities and Information System at the passenger Terminals at

airports;

• Expansion and strengthening of operation area viz. Runways, Aprons, Taxiway, etc.;

• Provision of Visual aids; and

• Provision of Communication and Navigational aids viz. ILS, DVOR, DME, Radar, etc.

Statistical Unit of Airport Authority of India, called as Directorate of Corporate Planning

and Management Services (CP&MS), is headed by an Executive Director. The Directorate has

statistical units at all four Metro Airports viz: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata and also at

Trivandrum Airport. The statistical activities of the Directorate include collection, analysis,

interpretation and publication of Air Traffic Statistics in respect of Air Craft Movement,


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Passengers and Freight for 16 International Air Ports, 8 Custom Airports and 109 domestic

airports in India; conducting various system studies such as economic planning, corporate

planning, statistical surveys from time to time; preparing short term indicators and long term

air traffic forecast; conducting Origin-Destination surveys, traffic potential studies for expansion

of the existing Airports and for development of green field Airports, customer satisfaction

surveys, opinion surveys and operation research studies; and conducting Global Monitoring

Surveys in association with ACI for bench marking of Indian Airports (Chennai and Kolkata

Airports) against 94 International terminals and 62 domestic terminals of foreign Airports.

The Directorate brings out the following publications:

Monthly: Traffic Reporter

Quarterly: Quarterly Review of Air Traffic

Annual: Review of Traffic at AAI Airports of India

The statistical manpower in position in the Authority is as follows:

Professional : 6

Intermediate : 6

Primary : 2

Total : 14


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4. MINISTRY OF COAL

The Ministry of Coal (MoC) is having overall responsibility in all matters of exploration

and development of coal and lignite reserves, coal production, supply, distribution, pricing of

coal, collection of coal and coal products data and dissemination of coal, lignite and washery

statistics.

The Office of the Coal Controller is responsible for all work related to Coal Statistics

under MoC. The mandate of Coal Controller is to permit the opening of coal and lignite mines

in the country, to collect excise duty from collieries, to provide assistance to coal companies

for taking necessary measures for conservation of coal and developing infrastructural facilities

in coal field areas, monitoring the progress in captive blocks, to collect and disseminate coal

(including washery) statistics of the country.

Statistics Division in the Coal Controller’s Organization (CCO) is located at CCO HQ at

Kolkata. Major statistical activities of Statistical Division are collection, compilation, analysis

and dissemination of Coal Statistics; construction of Index of Coal Production, undertaking

Annual Survey of Coal Industry to assess the coal consumption and stock at pithead, maintaining

washery statistics , Monitoring of Captive ‘Coal and lignite blocks’, scrutiny of IEM of SIA of

DIPP of M/o Commerce & Industry particularly the source of coal for the company and also

updating the washery database from, IEM once it gets approved.

Statistical Division brings out following regular as well as ad-hoc publications:

Monthly: Monthly Coal Statistics

Annual: Annual Provisional Coal Statistics

Annual Coal Directory of India

The statistical manpower in position in Statistical Division of Coal controller is as follows:

Professional … 2

Intermediate … 3

Primary … 16

Total … 21


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5. MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

Ministry of Commerce and Industry is the administrative Ministry for two departments

viz. Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, and Department of Commerce.

5.01 Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) under the administrative control

of Ministry of Commerce & Industry is mainly responsible for facilitating investment and

technology flows and monitoring industrial development. The main functions of the DIPP are

formulation and implementation of industrial policy and strategies for industrial development;

monitoring industrial growth; formulation of policies relating to Intellectual Property Rights in

the fields of Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications of Goods

and administration of rules and regulations; formulation & facilitation of Foreign Direct

Investment (FDI) policy; encouragement of foreign technology collaborations; administration

of Industries (Development & Regulation) Act; etc.

The Main Statistical activities in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion are

handled by the Industrial Statistics Unit of DIPP, and the Wholesale Price Index Division of the

Office of Economic Adviser.

The Industrial Statistics Unit (ISU) of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

(DIPP) is the nodal agency for collection, compilation and analysis of industrial production

data which is essential for assessing the growth of industries, as envisaged in the Industrial

Policy. The Unit has been maintaining data base on production statistics relating to all the

industries in the organised sector covered under the Industries (Development and Regulation)

Act, 1951. Details on capacity & annual targets of production, quantity and value of production,

employment etc. also collected every month. The authority for collection of data is derived

from the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 and Scheduled Industries

(Submission of Production Returns) Rules, 1979 and accordingly every manufacturing industry

in the non-SSI sector is required to submit production returns every month by a stipulated

date. DIPP provides production data to the CSO for the purpose of compilation of the monthly

Index of Industrial Production (IIP).

The statistical manpower of Industrial statistics Unit of DIPP is as follows:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 5

Total : 8

5.01.01 Office of the Economic Adviser to GOI

The Wholesale Price Index Division of the Office of the Economic Adviser is responsible

for compilation and publication for Wholesale Price Index (WPI) on weekly, monthly and yearly

basis. Collection, scrutiny and entry of data for Index of Industrial Production is done by Office


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of Economic Adviser. The office also compiles and publishes data for “Handbook of Industrial

Policy and statistics”. An advance indicator of industrial activity is brought out as the monthly

report on six infrastructure industries, viz, Crude Petroleum, Petroleum Refinery Products, coal,

electricity, Cement and finished Steel. The office also brings out the Monthly Economic Scenario,

Select Key Indicators of Industrial Performance and Manufacturing Sector in India’s Foreign

Trade.

Following publications are brought out by the Statistical Unit/WPI Division of DIPP:

Weekly:

Ø Wholesale Price Index

Monthly:

Ø Monthly Economic Scenario, Select Key Indicators of Industrial

Performance and Manufacturing Sector in India’s Foreign Trade

Annual:

Ø Handbook of Industrial Policy and Statistics

Time Series data on WPI (released on the website)

Statistical Manpower in position, in Office of the Economic Adviser is as follows:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 2

Total : 7

5.01.02 Office of Controller General, Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (known as Intellectual

Property Office-IPO)

The office of CGPDTM (known as Intellectual Property Office-IPO) is a subordinate office

under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Industrial Promotion & Policy. The

O/O CGPDTM administrate offices namely Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Geographical

Indications Registry (G.I.) and PIS/NIIPM.

The Indian Intellectual Property Office is dedicated to mobilize the use of intellectual

property for economic and social development by creating an IP culture and enhancing

knowledge & competencies synchronizing with the global environment. The Patent office

administers the law concerning protection of inventions in the country by way of grant of

patent for a limited period of time to the applicants. The Trademarks registry role is for

registration of brand names and service marks. The objective of trade mark legislation is to

provide better protection of trade marks for goods and services and prevention of the use of

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The office of CGPDTM does not have dedicated statistical section/division/unit. No

establishment has been made in the O/o CGPDTM for statistical data related activities. Statistical

work is presently carried out by technical officers at Patent Office, Kolkata as an additional

work. Patent office Kolkata compiles all the information related to Patents, Designs, TMR and

GIR from all 11 offices.

There is no statistical manpower in the O/O CGPDTM.

5.02 Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is

responsible for regulation, development and promotion of India’s international trade and

commerce through formulation of appropriate international trade & commercial policy, and

implementation of the various provisions thereof. The basic role of the Department is to facilitate

the creation of an enabling environment and infrastructure for accelerated growth of

international trade. The Department formulates, implements and monitors the Foreign Trade

Policy which provides the basic framework of policy and strategy to be followed for promoting

exports and trade. Besides, the Department is also entrusted with responsibilities relating to

multilateral and bilateral commercial relations, Special Economic Zones, state trading, export

promotion & trade facilitation, and development and regulation of certain export oriented

industries and commodities.

5.02.01 Directorate General of Foreign Trade

Directorate of General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) is an attached office of Department of

Commerce which functions under the charge of Director General of Foreign Trade. Under its

jurisdiction, there are four Zonal Offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai headed by

Zonal Joint Director Generals of Foreign Trade. The DGFT has also a network of 35 Regional

Offices spread throughout the length and breadth of the country. The DGFT’s mandate is to

formulate and implement foreign trade policy of the Government and to issue various

notifications to this effect for delivery of efficient and quality services to exporters/importers.

Apart from formulation of EXIM policy, DGFT also issue various types of Authorization to

exporters and monitor their corresponding obligations. DGFT’s Zonal/Regional Offices provide

facilitation to exporters in regard to developments in the area of international trade i.e. WTO

Agreements, Rules of Original and SPS requirements, Anti-dumping issues etc. to help the

exporters to strategize their imports and export decisions in an internationally dynamic

environment.

The Statistics Division of DGFT is entrusted with the task of maintaining and analyzing

statistics relating to trade and different export promotion and duty naturalization schemes,

providing related information to other Ministries and users organizations etc. collating and

analyzing of statistical data on import/export of various items, supplying/furnishing of data

on India’s imports/exports and sensitive item to different Ministries/agencies, collection of

monthly data on import of sensitive items, preparation of analytical notes on import of

sensitive items etc. are the other major statistical functions of the Statistical Division of

DGFT. Collection, compilation and analysis of licensing/authorization statistics on monthly


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basis of various types of licenses/authorizations issued by DGFT for export promotion, is also

done by Statistical Division of DGFT. Assessing the work of Regional Authorities through

Management Information System (MIS) on monthly basis is also the responsibility of Statistics

Division of DGFT.

The Statistics Division bring out every year two annual publications viz. Annual Report

and Abstract of Approval (under export promotion and duty neutralization schemes of foreign

trade policy), providing information on different types of import authorizations issued for the

import of raw material/inputs, consumables as well as capital goods. In addition, monthly

publication of “EXIM bulletin” giving details of authorizations issued by various regional

authorities on daily basis is made available on DGFT Web site.

The Statistical manpower in-position in DGFT is as follows:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 7

Primary : 4

Total : 15

5.02.02 Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals

Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D), the Central Purchase

Organization of Government of India, is an attached office of Department of Commerce (Supply

Division), Ministry of Commerce & Industry. The functions of DGS&D are carried out through

its functional wings and the supporting service wings. The functional wings are Supply Wing

and Quality Assurance (QA) Wing. Supporting services are provided by the Branches /

Directorates viz; Administration, Vigilance, Complaints and Public Relations, Co-ordination,

Internal Work Study Unit, Management Information Services, Registration, Litigation and

Computerization & Training. DGS&D has two professional cadres namely the “Indian Supply

Service” and the “Indian Inspection Service” to look after procurement and Quality Assurance

work. Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) enters into Rate Contracts (R/

Cs) for common user items required on recurring basis by Central Government Departments,

State Government /Quasi Public Bodies.

Management Information Services Directorate (MIS) (earlier known as Economics

& Statistical Directorate) of DGS&D is engaged in providing database and required

information for monitoring the purchase activities in DGS&D at all stages. The Directorate

is responsible for compilation of statistical data and produce reports for use by the

DGS&D/Department of Supply and the other authorities. The MIS staffs have been divided

into two categories: MIS Cells in each Purchase Directorates, and MIS Sections in MIS

Directorate. The MIS Cells in Purchase Directorates are responsible for making all data entry

and meeting their day to day requirements and have been working under the direct control

of the Purchase Directors. MIS Cell in the Directorate is responsible for data entry and

preparation of reports.

Following statistical publications are brought out by MIS Directorate of DGS&D


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Fortnightly:

Ø Fortnightly Economic Intelligence Bulletin

Monthly:

Ø Monthly Bulletin on Market Prices

Ø Status Report of Rate Contract,

Ø DGS&D Bulletin

Quarterly:

Ø Quarterly Report on Target and Achievement (MIS Dte. as a whole).

Annual:

Ø Annual Administrative Report of DGS&D

Ø Directory of Stores on Rate Contract

Ad hoc: Production of Stores Directory & Suppliers Directory

The Statistical manpower in position in DGS&D is as follows:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 28

Total : 34

5.02.03 Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata

The Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata is

the premier organization of Government for collection, compilation and dissemination of India’s

Trade Statistics, and commercial information. The merchandize trade data, both for exports

and imports are processed centrally in DGCI&S, using state-of-the-art technology and expertise.

The Directorate also compiles and publishes on regular basis the inland Trade Statistics; inland

Coastal Trade Statistics; Statistics of India’s Customs and Excise Revenue Collection according

to tariff heads; Shipping Statistics, and; Selected Statistics of Foreign Trade of India on annual

basis.

The DGCI&S, a subordinate office under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry,

functions under the charge of the Director General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics,

and has mainly five divisions viz. Foreign Trade Data Processing and Dissemination Division;

Computer Division; Ancillary & Derived Statistics Division; Commercial Intelligence Division,

and; Administrative Division. In addition, the DGCI&S has its officers posted in different Custom

Houses in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, and Kochi to monitor the flow of data from Customs to

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Major Publications brought by the DGCI&S are:

Weekly:

Ø Indian Trade Journal

Monthly

Ø Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade of India (CD Form in two volumes-

Import and Export);

Ø Foreign Trade Statistics of India (Principal Commodities & Countries –

in CD form)

Quarterly:

Ø Statistics of the Foreign Trade of India by Countries (CD form in two

volumes-Import and Exports)

Triennial:

Ø Directory of Indian Exporters (in CD form);

Ø Directory of Indian Importers (in CD form)

Biannual:

Ø Vaanijya (On-line)

Annual:

Ø Statistics of the Customs and Excise Revenue Collections of the Indian

Union; Statistics of Foreign and Coastal Cargo Movement of India;

Ø Statistics of the Inland Coastal Trade Consignments of India;

Ø Inter-State Movements/Flow of Goods by rail, river, air and;

Ø Selected Statistics of the Foreign Trade of India

The Statistical Staff in position in DGCI&S is as follows:

Professional : 17

Intermediate : 55

Primary : 278

Total : 350

5.02.04 Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA)

The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) was constituted in 1972

as a statutory body under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry by an act of the Parliament.

The main activities of MPEDA as per the MPEDA Act are: developing and regulating off-shore

and deep-sea fishing; registering fishing vessels, processing plants, etc.; fixing of standards for

export of marine products; rendering of financial & other assistance; carrying out inspection

of marine products; regulating the export of marine products; export marketing of marine

products; registering of exporters; collecting statistics; training in various aspects of the marine

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The MPEDA has a total of 11 Regional/Sub Regional offices in all the maritime States of

India where export statistics is captured, computed and forwarded to the Statistical Division in

the MPEDA Head Office at Kochi. The work is carried out by the clerical staff who are trained to

work on the statistical package

The Statistical Section of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA)

Hqrs. is responsible for computerized processing of the export data and analyzing the trends of

export of various products to various markets; export coding ; forwarding the computed data

in different forms to different offices of the Ministry, major institutions, trade etc. periodically;

dissemination of market information to the trade; bringing out the annual statistical

publications; selecting top exporters for the annual export award of MPEDA; giving guidelines

to the field offices of MPEDA for issuing certificate of Origin under GSP/SAPTA/APTA/SAFTA

etc; Market survey to develop new markets/strengthen the existing markets, by finding avenues

to market value added marine products; monitoring of export prices of major products, both

fob and c&f, to major markets to study the demand/growth and prepare export targets in $

earning terms is also done by the Statistical Section.

Statistical Section brings out Weekly Bulletin ‘PRIME’.

Statistical manpower in the Marine Products Export Development Authority is given

below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 1

Primary : -

Total : 3

5.02.05 The Rubber Board

The Rubber Board is a statutory body constituted by the Government of India, under

the Rubber Act 1947, for the overall development of the rubber industry in the country. Main

functions of the Board, as defined under the Act, are to promote, by such measures as it thinks

fit, the development of the rubber industry like by undertaking, assisting or encouraging

scientific, technological or economic research; training students in improved methods of

planting, cultivation, manuring and spraying; the supply of technical advice to rubber growers;

improving the marketing of rubber; the collection of statistics from owners of estates, dealers

and manufacturers; securing better working conditions and the provision and improvement of

amenities and incentives to workers; etc.

The Statistics & Planning Department of the Board is involved in the statutory functions

as prescribed in the Rubber Act 1947 under Section 8 (2) and 8 (3). The main statistical function

of the Statistics & Planning Department are: Collection, compilation, interpretation and

dissemination of rubber statistics collected from growers, dealers, processors and

manufacturers; forecast of production, consumption and stock of rubber; and rendering

statistical service to other departments/divisions mainly to Research Department. The other

statistical functions of Statistics and planning Department are supply of statistics and other


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connected information to International Rubber Study Group Association of Natural Rubber

producing Countries etc. and monitor the developments in the international rubber field;

assessment of area under rubber through sample surveys; organising and conducting up-to-

date statistics of area under rubber cultivation; etc. The Department is headed by Jt. Director

(S&P) who reports to the Chairman directly. All the above functions are coordinated by the

Statistics & Planning Department at the Headquarters. A division of the Statistics & Planning

Department is functioning in the Research Department headed by an Asstt. Director (S&P).

The main functions of the Statistics Division in the Research Department is planning, statistical

analysis, interpretation of experimental data and undertaking studies in association with other

divisions of the Research Department.

Following statistical publications are brought out by the Rubber Board:

Ø Indian Rubber Statistics

Ø Monthly Rubber Statistical News

Ø Pocket Book on Rubber Statistics

The statistical manpower in position in the Rubber Board is as given below:

Professional : 11

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 13

Total : 25

5.02.06 Spices Board

Spices Board was constituted on 26th February 1986 under the Spices Board Act 1986

(No. 10 of 1986) with the merger of the erstwhile Cardamom Board (1968) and Spices Export

Promotion Council (1960). Spices Board is one of the five Commodity Boards functioning under

the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. It is an autonomous body responsible for the export

promotion of the scheduled spices and production development of some of them such as

Cardamom and Vanilla. Its main functions include carrying out Research, Development and

Regulation of domestic marketing of Small & Large Cardamom; Research & Production

development of vanilla; Post harvest improvement of all spices; Promotion of organic

production, processing and certification of spices; Provision of quality evaluation services, and;

Export promotion of all spices through support for Technology upgradation, Quality upgradation,

Brand promotion and research & product development.

Spices Board has two statistical divisions; one associated with the general statistics

and other exclusively for the analysis of agriculture research and is attached to the Research

center of the Board. The statistical division is responsible for collection, processing, analysis

and dissemination of data in respect of area, production, export, import and domestic and

International prices of spices and spice products. Month wise export and import estimate of

spices are prepared based on the data collected from all the major ports, DGCI&S, Kolkata. The


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division also monitors the export of spices affected by the registered exporters (around 2800

numbers) by compiling the export details from the quarterly export returns submitted by these

exporters. The details from the quarterly returns submitted by spices exporters are processed

to generate various statistical reports and charts on export, import, market trend and prices of

spices. The domestic and international prices of different spices collected form national and

international sources are compiled and disseminated through weekly publication ‘Spice Market’

as well as through Board’s website.

The division also conducts annual field sample surveys to estimate the area, production

and productivity of cardamom small, cardamom large and vanilla in India. State/District wise

area and production details of other spices are collected from the State Economics and

Statistics/Agriculture/Horticulture departments and compiled annually. The information on

world area, production, export, import, prices, market demand and trends of spices are

collected from international agencies like, UNSTAT, International Trade Centre, Geneva, Food

and Agricultural Organisation, Rome, International Pepper Community, Jakarta etc. and

furnished to the industry and other users on request. The Division also publish export

reviews and statistical booklet viz. ‘Spices Statistics’ regularly. The statistical division attached

to the Research Department is responsible for statistical evaluation of the field studies

conducted by various divisions.

The statistical manpower in position in the Spices Board is as given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 6

Total : 9

5.02.07 Tea Board of India

Tea Board was set up as a statutory body under the Tea Act, 1953. It is a commodity

Board under Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The Board comprises of 31 members including

the Chairman, who is the Chief Executive and appointed by the Central Government. The Board

is reconstituted every three years. The present Board was reconstituted in August 2008. The

Board is engaged in development of tea Production through extension of area under tea

cultivation, improvement in the quality, promotion of exports and domestic consumption,

promotion of research and development, etc. The Board issue business license for tea exporters

and distributors, tea waste license and tea warehousing license, etc.

The main functions of the Statistical Branch of the Tea Board are to design and develop

Management Information System; Estimation of production, export of tea; monitoring and

providing the information on weekly tea auction prices and retail tea prices at major cities/

town to various ministries/departments/industry; Preparation of Indian and International Tea

scenario, and; estimation of labour force engaged in tea plantation.

A Techno-Economic Cell was established in 1972 in the Statistics Branch of the Tea


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Board on the recommendations of the Estimate Committee of Parliament, with the objective

to undertake techno-economic studies into the problems of Tea Industry in different tea growing

regions and also to suggest suitable remedial measures for the overall growth of the industry.

So far, eighteen techno-economic surveys have been conducted in different tea growing States/

regions of India, and presently, the Cell is involved in studying the economic health of different

tea companies, covered under the compulsory cost audit by the Government of India.

Statistics Branch brings out the following publications:

Annual:

Ø Tea Statistics

Ø Tea Digest

The statistical manpower in position in the Tea Board is as follows:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 4

Primary : 16

Total : 23

5.02.08 Coffee Board

The Coffee Board of India is an autonomous body, functioning under the Ministry of

Commerce and Industry. Set up under an Act of the Parliament in the year 1942, the Board

focuses on research, development, extension, quality up gradation, market information, and

the domestic and external promotion of Indian coffee. Earlier, the Coffee Board had a

monopolistic control over the marketing of coffee in India. However, with the liberalization of

economy, since 1995, marketing of coffee is strictly a private sector activity.

The Market Intelligence Unit (MIU) of the Board is responsible for all statistical activities

in Coffee Board. The key functions it discharge are: collection and compilation of daily market

information on prices, supply, demand and other factors required for market analysis; forecasting

on supply, demand and other economic variables; carrying out market research with regard to

existing and potential markets;; providing trade information to Industry; conducting research

and analysis on coffee economics including production, cost of competitiveness, technical &

economic efficiency, etc; and facilitating development of price risk management instruments

to coffee growers; etc.

Following Statistical Publications / Reports are brought by the MIU:

Daily:

Ø Daily Coffee Market Report

Bi-monthly:

Ø Data Base on Coffee


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Once in two Years:

Ø Domestic Coffee Consumption Survey

Ad-hoc

Ø Study on Logistics and Cost Competitiveness of Coffee Exporting

Countries

Ø Market Research Study on promoting Indian Coffee Exports to Russia

and other CIS Countries.

Statistical manpower in position in the Coffee Board is as follows:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 2

Primary : -

Total : 3

5.02.09 Tariff Commission

Keeping in view the commitments of government in the WTO and complexities in tariff

and tariff related matters, which may have very vital impact on domestic industry as well as on

the economy of the country, an independent Tariff Commission was set up by the Government

in September 1997 under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion of the Ministry

of Industry and Commerce. The objective of the Commission is to provide an independent

body to look into tariff related matters and recommend appropriate levels of tariff for different

products and industries keeping in view the larger economic interests of the country. Presently,

main functions of the Commission are to recommend on matters regarding fixation of tariffs

and tariff related issues for goods and services; to evolve an overall tariff structure and look

into the issue of tariff rationalization; to study critically market access offers received from

trading partners as part of the WTO framework and advise government on opportunities and

challenges generated by these offers; to examine the transition period required for selected

industries and recommend the gradual phasing out of tariffs; to identify the tariffication process

for select economic activities; and Classification of goods and products, along with applicable

tariff on such goods.

As a part of its functions, the Commission also conduct detailed impact analysis of

select sectors (Textiles, agriculture, automobiles, information technology, chemicals, steel and

engineering goods) through multi-disciplinary teams; maintain and monitor inventory of tariff

rates at sufficiently detailed level and tariff changes in competing and trade-partner countries;

and carry out technical studies on the cost of production of goods and services and

competitiveness in relation to other countries.

The Economic and Statistical Division of the Tariff Commission provides all the

Economic and Statistical inputs, which, inter-alia, include applying statistical knowledge and

tools, designing statistical enquiries, analysis and interpretation of statistical data for all the


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studies undertaken by/for the Tariff Commission; etc. The division does not bring out any

publication.

The statistical manpower in position in the Tariff Commission is as given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 0

Total : 2


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6. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

6.01 Department of Posts

The Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communication and Information

Technology is mainly responsible for providing universal access to basic postal services in the

country at affordable prices. The Postal Service Board is the apex management body of the

Departments, comprising of Chairman and three Members. For providing postal services, the

country has been divided into 22 postal circles.

The Statistical Unit of the Department of Posts is mainly responsible for the work of

collection of data (Monthly/Quarterly/Half Yearly and annually) from postal circles/units for

compilation, estimation and presentation of statistical data, as required by the Department in

connection with the policy formulation.

The Unit brings out a Statistical Publication, namely “Book of Information” which gives

statistical data & other details relating to different aspects of postal services.

The statistical manpower in position in the Statistical Unit of the Department is as

follows:

Professional … 1

Intermediate … 0

Primary … 5

Total … 6

6.02 Department of Telecommunication

The Department of Telecommunication in the Ministry of Communication and

Information Technology has been formulating developmental policies for the accelerated growth

of the telecommunication services. The Department is responsible for grant of licenses for

various telecom services like Unified Access Service Internet and VSAT services and also for

frequency management in the field of radio communication in close coordination with the

international bodies. It also enforces wireless regulatory measures by monitoring wireless

transmission of all users in the country.

The statistical manpower in position in the Statistical Unit of the Department is as

follows:

Professional 1

Intermediate: 1

Primary: 3

Total: 5

6.03 Department of Information Technology

The Department of Information Technology is mainly responsible for facilitating and


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catalyzing adoption of E-governance packages in the Central and State Governments, as the

nodal agency for the implementation of the National E-Governance Action Plan; evolving and

implementing policy packages to propel growth of electronics and hardware manufacturing;

increasing PC penetration in the country; growth of domestic software market; development

of local languages in Information Technology, and; encouraging use of IT to increase productivity;

exploring use of IT as a means of generating employment. The department is also responsible

for matters relating to Cyber Laws, administration of the Information Technology Act 2000 and

other IT related laws.

6.03.01 National Informatics Centre

National Informatics Centre (NIC) of the Department of Information Technology is

providing network backbone and e-Governance support to Central Government, State

Governments, UT Administrations, Districts and other Government bodies. It offers a wide

range of ICT services including Nationwide Communication Network for decentralized planning,

improvement in Government services and wider transparency of national and local

Governments. NIC assists in implementing Information Technology Projects, in close

collaboration with Central and State Governments, in the areas of (a) Centrally sponsored

schemes and Central sector schemes (b) State sector and State sponsored projects, and (c)

District Administration sponsored projects. NIC endeavors to ensure that the latest technology

in all areas of IT is available to its users.

There is no statistical set up in the NIC and no statistical manpower is posted in the

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7. MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

7.01 Department of Consumer Affairs

The Department of Consumer Affairs under Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs is

responsible for the formulation of policies for Consumer Cooperatives, Monitoring Prices,

availability of essential commodities, Consumer Movement in the country and Controlling of

statutory bodies like Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Weights and Measures.

The Price Monitoring Cell (PMC), set up in 1998 in the Department monitors and analyses

price data and trends of availability of essential commodities. The Economic Adviser in the

Department of Consumer Affairs heads the cell and a Deputy Economic Adviser assisted by

Assistant Economic Advisers and Deputy Directors looks after the work of the cell.

The PMC as per its mandate is entrusted with the task of monitoring the prices of

essential commodities in the country and involves extensive collection, collation and analysis

of statistics on prices and other related variables. The PMC monitors the prices of the 17 essentail

commodities, namely; Rice, Wheat, Atta, Gram Dal, Arhar Dal, Moong Dal, Urad Dal, Moong

Dal, Masoor Dal, Sugar, Mustard Oil, Groundnut Oil, Vanaspati, Tea, Milk, Onion, Potato, and

Salt at the retail and whosesale level on daily and weekly basis respectively. Three essential

commodities, viz., Moong Dal, Urad Dal, Masoor Dal were added for price monitoring w.e.f.

October 2008. The Cell monitors daily retail prices received from 27 State capitals and weekly

wholesale/retail prices from 37 centres spread all over the country. The centres for weekly

reporting include 18 State capitals covered under daily price reporting system and 19 additional

urban centres spread all over the country based on the consumption as well as producing

status of the centres.

Commodity-wise data on import-export, production, crop, area, WPI, CPI etc is collected

and analyzed by the Cell. Time series data on the above are being maintained in order to build

up the data base. Domestic and international market situations of important commodities are

analyzed by this Cell. Information on domestic and global price and availability of essential

commodities is collected from various sources like Reuters, Newswire, Agriwatch, Oil World

etc.

Daily Price report on prices of 17 essential commodities is being prepared on daily

basis. A Monthly Bulletin on ‘Prices of Essential Commodities’ containing the wholesale and

retail prices is also prepared by this Cell.

The statistical staff in position in PMC is as under;

Professional : 0

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 4

Total : 6


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7.01.01 National Test House

The National Test House with its headquarters at Kolkata is a Government laboratory

of national importance in the field of testing and evaluation of materials and products of all

engineering branches except Food, Pharmaceuticals and Arms and Ammunition. It is also

providing calibration services and actively supports the formulation of National Standards since

independence. The objective of the NTH is to improve Indian products to meet the requirements

of National/International Standards for their acceptability in the global market. The NTH with

its headquarters in Kolkata functions through six regional laboratories located in Kolkata,

Mumbai, Chennai, Ghaziabad, Jaipur and Guwahati. There is also a modern laboratory complex

of the NTH located at Salt Lake, Kolkata.

7.01.02 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

`The Indian Standards Institution (ISI) came into existence in January 1947 as a

registered society with the objective of harmonious development of activities of

standardisation, quality certification and marking. This set-up was provided statutory status

through an Act of Parliament in November 1986, and renamed as Bureau of Indian Standards

(BIS) as a national standards body of India with a broadened scope and more powers. The

main functions of BIS include preparation and implementation of standards, operation of

certification schemes both for products and systems, organisation and management of testing

laboratories, creating consumer awareness and maintaining close liaison with international

standards’ bodies.

With its headquarters at Delhi, BIS have five regional offices at Kolkata, Chandigarh,

Mumbai, Delhi, and Chennai. It has 33 branch offices in the country.

The Bureau does not have any statistical unit. However, there are four officers with

statistics discipline.

7.02 Department of Food and Public Distribution

The Department of Food and Public Distribution is charged with the prime responsibility

of the management of the food economy of the country. The twin objectives of the Department

are to ensure remunerative rates for our farmers, and supply of food grains at reasonable

prices to the consumers through the public distribution system. In this direction, the department

formulates policies concerning the food grains sector - procurement, storage, movement and

distribution. The Department also implements the scheme of minimum support price to the

producers of wheat, paddy and coarse grains and the distribution of food grains from the

Central Pool.

Policy and planning for Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) is also the

responsibility of the department. There are two attached offices, namely, Directorate of Sugar,

and Directorate of Vanaspati, Vegetable Oils and Fats, and one subordinate offices viz., National

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There is no Division or Section in the Department exclusively dealing with statistical

matters in the Department. However, there are statistical personnel posted in the Control

Room and BP-I Sections of Department dealing with maintenance of important statistics relating

to production / procurement, and monitoring the prices and procurement of food grains;

collection / compilation of monthly statistical data on procurement, stocks, allocations and off

take of food grains from the central pool; review of stock position of food grains in the central

pool; review of buffer stocking policy of food grains; monitoring complaints on distress sale of

food grains; etc.

7.02.01 Directorate of Sugar

The Department of Food & Public Distribution monitors and implement various policies

of the government and development of sugar industries, vegetable oil and vanaspati industries.

It also takes stock of the indigenous production, internal requirement, allocation of sugar,

vanaspati and edible oils. The administrative body responsible for sugar industry is Directorate

of Sugar. Sugar and Sugarcane are essential commodities under the Essential Commodities Act

1955. Government has been following a policy of partial control and dual pricing for sugar.

Under this policy, a certain percentage of sugar produced by sugar factories is requisitioned by

the Government as compulsory levy at a price fixed by Government in every sugar season for

distribution in the Public Distribution System (PDS). The non-levy, (free sale) sugar is allowed

to be sold as per the quantity released by the Government under the free sale sugar release

mechanism.

7.02.02 Directorate of Vanaspati, Vegetable Oils and Fats

The Directorate of Vanaspati, Vegetable Oils and Fats is an attached office of the

Department of Food & Public Distribution, which is the nodal department for vegetable oils,

particularly edible oils, and is responsible for the coordinated management of distribution of

vegetable oils, oilcakes and meals, their prices, internal trade and commerce, administration

of industries as also all policy matters relating to these items. The Directorate is headed by the

Chief Director and assists the Department in all matters relating to vegetable oils. The directorate

performs regulatory, developmental and advisory functions in respect of all matters relating to

vegetable oils, particularly edible oils and vanaspati.

The Programming Cell in the Directorate performs the statistical functions like

compilation of data of the production of Vanaspati & related products throughout India;

maintaining production data of Solvent Extracted Oils as collected from the Industry; maintaining

list of working / non-working SEO Units / Vanaspati Units; etc.

Statistical staff in position in the Directorate is:

Professional : -

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 1

Total : 2


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7.02.03 National Sugar Institute, Kanpur

The institute was established in the year 1936 and is headed by Director. The Institute

is mainly responsible for providing technical education and training in research in all branches

of sugar chemistry, sugar technology, sugar engineering and allied fields; undertaking research

on (i) problems pertaining to sugar technology sugar and sugarcane chemistry and sugar

engineering in general and those of sugar factories in particular, and (ii) utilization of byproducts

of sugar industry, and; giving technical advice and assistance to sugar factories with a view to

improving their efficiency and to assist them in their day-to-day problems. Assistance is also

provided to Central and State Governments in matters relating to sugar and allied industries.

The Statistics Section in the institute conducts training in statistical methods and

statistical quality control for different Post-Graduate diploma courses such as, Sugar Technology

and Sugar Engineering; assists in research work; collects, compile and analyze technical data

from sugar factories.

No statistical publications are brought out by the Institute.

The statistical staff in position in National Sugar Institute is as under;

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1


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8. MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is primarily concerned with administration of the

Companies Act, 1956, other allied Acts and rules & regulations framed there-under mainly for

regulating the functioning of the corporate sector in accordance with law. The Ministry is also

responsible for administering the Competition Act, 2002 which will eventually replace the

Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 under which the Monopolies and

Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) is functioning. Besides, it exercises supervision

over the three professional bodies, namely, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(ICAI),

Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants

of India (ICWAI) which are constituted under three separate Acts of the Parliament for proper

and orderly growth of the professions concerned. The Ministry also has the responsibility of

carrying out the functions of the Central Government relating to administration of Partnership

Act, 1932, the Companies (Donations to National Funds) Act, 1951 and Societies Registration

Act, 1980.

There are two sections viz. Statistical Section and Research & Analysis Division in the

Ministry of Corporate Affairs which perform the statistical activities. The statistics section is

responsible for Corporate Statistics and dissemination of information to concerned organizations

that is CSO, RBI, etc; development and mapping of the economic activity code and the product

codes; RBI committees on savings and investments; and bringing out News Letter of the Ministry.

The Research and Analysis Division is responsible for carrying out research and analysis

pertaining to growth in corporate sector; analysis of balance sheet of companies with paid up

capital of Rupees fifty lakhs and above; Work pertaining to capital markets; Policy issues,

manuals, etc.

The Division/Section brings out the Annual Report on the working and Administration

of the Companies Act 1956, and the Annual Report of Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

Statistical manpower in position in the Ministry is given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 8

Total : 13


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9. MINISTRY OF CULTURE

The mandate of the Ministry of Culture is to preserve and promote all forms of art and

culture. To this end, the Ministry undertakes activities that follow from the subjects allocated

under the Government of India’s Allocation of Business Rules 1961. The Department is mainly

responsible for Maintenance and conservation of the monuments and sites of archaeological

and historical importance; Promotion of literary, visual and performing arts; Promotion of

libraries and assistance to public libraries; Promotion of museums and art exhibitions;

maintenance, preservation and conservation of archival records and archival libraries; carrying

out research and development in the conservation of cultural property; Observance of

centenaries and anniversaries of important national personalities and events; Promotion of

institutions and organizations of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies; Promotion of institutional and

individual initiative in the field of art and culture; Safeguarding the tangible and intangible

cultural heritage of the country; Fostering cultural relations with foreign countries; Promotion

of institutions of anthropological studies; Cataloguing and conservation of ancient manuscripts,

and; Documentation & revitalization of endangered art forms. The activities are carried out

through the attached, subordinate and autonomous institutions under the Department.

However, there are following four statistical personnel who are working for the Plan and Budget

section of the Ministry:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 0

Total : 4

9.00.01 National Archives of India

The National Archives of India is the repository of the non-current records of the

Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars. It

is an Attached Office of the Department of Culture under Ministry of Tourism & Culture. It was

set up in March 1891 in Calcutta (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department and subsequent

to the transfer of the National Capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911, it was shifted to its

present building in 1926.

The organization does not have any Statistical Division nor performs any statistical

activities. There is no statistical manpower in the organization.

9.00.02 Archaeological Survey of India

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the Ministry of Culture, is the premier

organization for the archaeological researches and protection of the cultural heritage of the

nation. Maintenance of ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains of national

importance is the prime concern of the ASI. Besides it regulate all archaeological activities in

the country as per the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and

Remains Act, 1958. It also regulates Antiquities and Art Treasure Act, 1972.


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For the maintenance of ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains of

national importance the entire country is divided into 24 Circles. The organization has a large

work force of trained archaeologists, conservators, epigraphist, architects and scientists for

conducting archaeological research projects through its Circles, Museums, Excavation Branches,

Prehistory Branch, Epigraphy Branches, Science Branch, Horticulture Branch, Building Survey

Project, Temple Survey Projects and Underwater Archaeology Wing.

There is no Statistical Branch or Section in the ASI and the statistical data generated as

a bi-product of administrative activity is maintained by the concerned branches.

9.00.03 Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata

A premier national institution of repute, Anthropological Survey of India is the only

one of its kind anywhere in the world to pursue Anthropological research in a Governmental

setup. The Anthropological Survey of India’s genesis was from the Zoological and Anthropological

section of the Indian Museum, which became the Zoological Survey of India in 1916. In 1945,

Anthropology section of the Zoological Survey was carved out to become the Anthropological

Survey of India (An.S.I). The head office was shifted from Banaras to Calcutta in 1948.

The An.SI is mainly responsible for studying the tribes and other communities that

forms the population of India both from the biological and cultural point of view; studying and

preserving the human skeletal remains, both from modern and archaeological; collecting

samples of arts and crafts of the tribes of India; functioning as a training centre for advanced

studies in anthropology and administration, and; publishing results of the researches.

Anthropological Survey of India with head quarters at Kolkata, has seven regional offices

namely North-Eastern Regional Centre at Shillong, Eastern Regional Centre at Kolkata, North-

Western Regional Centre at Dehradun, Western Regional Centre at Udaipur, Central Regional

Centre at Nagpur, Southern Regional Centre at Mysore, Andaman & Nicobar Island Centre at

Port Blair, Sub Regional centre at Jagdalpur and three field offices along with a Camp Office at

New Delhi. All the regional centres including head office except regional centre at Port Blair

have many posts of Statisticians. Statistical Section in all regional offices and Headquarters is

the part and parcel of the survey and provides all the statistical techniques and tools for research

works of the scientists and development of anthropology along with other scientific traits of

the survey.

Statistical Section at the Hqrs. of An.S.I. has been set up from the day of inception of

the Survey. Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis, in course of research development of statistics, utilized

various craniometrical data of physical anthropology and also found the result of racial

likelihoodness as well as measure of distance statistics. This research is elaborately done by

Anthropological Survey of India. Researchers of the Survey collect various anthropometric

data including data on craniometrical measurements and draw the inferences by applying the

holistic statistical applications. The Survey undertook the longitudinal growth study of the

children of various parts of India where yearly growth is measured by utilizing the same schedule

having the same parameters of measurements among the tribal groups of India and data are


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being analyzed by the persons of statistics to find the trend of growth. Statistics is highly

involved in all projects of Socio-cultural, Psychology and DNA Polymorphism of the

Contemporary Indian Populations and non-parametric methods of statistical analysis are mainly

utilized to interpret. Data are being computerized and analyzed by using small programme

written by statistical personnel or using software packages like SPSS 16 version and others.

No statistical publications are brought by the Anthropological Survey of India. However,

statistical data generated by the Statistical Sections of Regional Offices and Head Office of the

Survey are utilized in the publications brought out by the Survey.

The statistical staff in position in the An. S.I. is as follows:-

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 7

Total : 11


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10. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

The Ministry of Defence(MOD) is responsible for framing policy directions on defence and

security related matters and communicating them for implementation to the Services Headquarters,

Inter-Service Organisations, Production Establishments and Research & Development Organisations. It

is required to ensure effective implementation of the Government’s Policy directions and the execution

of approved programmes within the allocated resources. There are four Departments in the Ministry

and their principal functions are as follows:

a. The Department of Defence deals with the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) and

three Services and various Inter-Service Organisations. It is also responsible for the

Defence Budget, establishment matters, defence policy, matters relating to Parliament,

defence co-operation with foreign countries and co-ordination of all defence related

activities.

b. The Department of Defence Production deals with matters pertaining to

defence production, indigenization of imported stores, equipment and spares, planning

and control of departmental production units of the Ordnance Factory Board and

Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs).

c. The Department of Defence Research and Development is responsible

for advising the Government on scientific aspects of military equipment and logistics

and the formulation of research, design and development plans for equipment required

by the Services.

d. The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare deals with all resettlement,

welfare and pensionary matters of Ex-servicemen.

Management Information System Organisation (MISO) in Army Headquarters is the main

statistical organization in the Ministry of Defence. Small Statistical set-ups also exist in Directorate

General of Resettlement; Naval Hqrs and Air Hqrs. Broad statistical activities carried out by various

Statistical Units in MOD are given below.

10.00. 01 MIS Cell in Acquisition Wing

MIS Cell in Acquisition Wing in Ministry of Defence is mainly engaged in creation of databases

on prices of important input items in domestic and global markets, Exchange Rates, Allocation and

Expenditure under Modernization Budget, etc.

10.00.02 Army Headquarters

a) Management Information Systems Organisation, Army Headquarters: The Army

Statistical Organisation (ASO) within the Management Information Systems

Organisation (MISO) of Army Headquarters bring out periodically Statistical Digests of

Manpower, Vehicles, Armaments & Equipment, Yellow Book for the Strength of Army,

Labour Statistics of Civilian Labour employed in Defence factories/establishments etc.,

whereas the responsibility of creation & maintenance of these databases vests with

the MISO. The ASO is headed by a Director level officer of ISS who reports to a DDG, a

Defence Services Officer of the rank of Brigadier, who heads the MISO.


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b) Directorate General of Military Training (DGMT), Army Hqrs: MT-2 in DGMT is

responsible for conduct of promotion Examination-part B & part D and Competitive

Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) and Technical Staff officers Courses (TSOC)

Entrance Examination for Army Officers at all India level and processing of results. The

database of personal details of officers and their result statistics are maintained under

the supervision of Deputy Director, who also analyse these examination statistics.

c) Directorate of Statistics & Records (DS&R), Directorate General Resettlement (DGR),

Ministry of Defence: The Directorate is primarily responsible for collection, compilation,

analysis, maintenance & dissemination of data relating to ex-servicemen like

registration, placement, retirement, live register, war widows, World War II veterans

and employment preferences & age distribution of retirees. The Directorate is also

responsible for conducting census of ex-servicemen & widows on quarterly basis with

the help of States in the country. In addition, the Directorate also deals with policy

matters with regards to definition of ex-servicemen.

10.00.03 Naval Headquarters

Directorate of Manpower Planning & Recruitment: The statistical analysis section in

the directorate is responsible for compilation and collation of statistical information on

sanctioned strength of Officers and Sailors, Borne strength of officers, Monthly Personnel

Position of Officers and Sailors and Annual Personnel Position for Civilians as on 30th September.

Manpower data is analysed to study wastage of officers and sailors and for perspective planning.

10.00.04 Air Headquarters

There are two branches namely Air Officer Personnel (AOP) Branch and Air Officer

Maintenance (AOM) Branch and one Directorate of Flight safety in Air Headquarters which maintain

the data pertaining to Air Force personnel and Materials respectively.

(i) AOP Branch: Manpower data is maintained by the following four agencies.

a) Air Officer Personnel Computer Center: maintains the Bio-data of each of the officers

who are in service.

(b) Air Force Record Office: maintains the Bio-data, performance and posting details of

each of the Airmen and Non-Combatants Enrolled (NcsE) in Oracle Data Base.

(c) Directorate of Personnel Civilians: maintains the strength related information for the

Civilians in the IAF.

(d) AOP-EMIC: The AOP Establishment Management and Information Centre (EMIC)

maintain the unit wise establishment data of Officers, Airmen, NcsE and Civilians of

the IAF.

(ii) AOM Branch: The main functions of the Directorate of Maintenance Information System

are Aircraft on Ground Monitoring, Supply Progression Monitoring, Aircraft Status and

Defect Reporting, Daily Aircraft Serviceability Monitoring etc. The software is web based

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(iii) Directorate of Flight Safety: The Statistics Section in the Directorate of Flight Safety is

responsible for collation, analysis and maintenance of flight safety data (flying hours and

accidents/incidents). This flight safety data is regularly disseminated to various users within

IAF as well as outside agencies after required analysis for initiation of remedial measures

as a proactive approach. This section is also required to forecast the accident/incidents in

the IAF through computer modeling taking into account the past statistics.

The Statistical manpower in position in Ministry of Defence is as given below:

Professional : 17

Intermediate : 18

Primary : 50

Total : 85


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11. MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERN REGION

Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DONER) was set up in September

2001 to act as the nodal Department of the Central Government to deal with matters pertaining

to socio-economic development of the eight States of North East. The Ministry is responsible

for all matters related to the planning, execution and monitoring of developmental schemes

and projects of North Eastern Region including those in the sectors of Power, Irrigation, Roads

and Communications; Road works financed in whole or in part by the Central Government in

the North Eastern Region; Planning of Roads and Inland Waterways Transport in the North

Eastern Region; Hill Area Development Programme (HADP) and Border Areas Development

Programme (BADP) in North Eastern Region; Non-lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR)

for the North Eastern Region, and ; North Eastern Council (NEC); etc.

The Ministry does not have any Statistical Set up. Being an officer oriented Ministry,

every officer maintains statistical information pertaining to his field of activities. The Ministry

does not bring out any statistical publication.

11.00.01 North Eastern Council Secretariat

The North Eastern Council (NEC) is the nodal agency for the economic and social

development of the North Eastern Region which consists of the eight States of Arunachal

Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. The Council

was constituted in 1971 by an Act of Parliament. The constitution of the Council has marked

the beginning of a new chapter of concerted and planned endeavor for the rapid development

of the Region. Over the last thirty five years, NEC has been instrumental in setting in motion a

new economic endeavor aimed at removing the basic handicaps that stood in the way of normal

development of the region and has ushered in an era of new hope in this backward area full of

great potentialities.

The Council Secretariat compiles statistics regarding NEC releases of funds, etc. NEC

also publishes: “Basic statistics of NE region” which is updated roughly every four years. There

is no statistical Cell in the North Eastern Council Secretariat. There is one sanctioned post of

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12. MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES

The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is mandated to provide the nation with best

possible services in forecasting the monsoons and other weather/climate parameters, ocean

state, earthquakes, tsunamis and other phenomena related to earth systems through well

integrated programmes. The Ministry also deals with science and technology for exploration

and exploitation of ocean resources (living and non-living), and play nodal role for Antarctic/

Arctic and Southern Ocean research.

12.00.01 Indian Meteorological Department(IMD)

In the year 1875, the Government of India established the India Meteorological

Department, bringing all meteorological work in the country under a central authority. The

Director General of Meteorology is the Head of the India Meteorological Department, with

headquarters at New Delhi. There are 4 Additional Directors General at New Delhi and 1 at

Pune. For the convenience of administrative and technical control, there are 6 Regional

Meteorological Centres, each under a Deputy Director General with headquarters at Mumbai,

Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Nagpur and Guwahati. In addition, there are separate Divisions

to deal with specialized subjects.

The mandate of Indian Meteorological Department is to take meteorological

observations and to provide current and forecast meteorological information for optimum

operation of weather-sensitive activities; to warn against severe weather phenomena; to

provide meteorological statistics required for agriculture, water resource management,

industries, oil exploration and other nation-building activities; to conduct and promote research

in meteorology and allied disciplines; and to detect and locate earthquakes and to evaluate

seismicity in different parts of the country for development projects.

Statistical manpower in position in the IMD is as given below:

Professional : 15

Intermediate : 31

Primary : 31

Total : 77


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13. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS

The Ministry of Environment & Forests is the nodal agency of the Government for

planning, promoting, coordinating and overseeing the implementation of environmental and

forestry programmes. The Ministry is also the Nodal agency in the country for the United Nations

Environment Programme (UNEP). The principal activities undertaken by Ministry of Environment

& Forests consist of conservation & survey of flora, fauna forests and Wildlife, prevention &

control of pollution, afforestation & regeneration of degraded areas and protection of

environment, in the frame work of legislations. The main tools utilized for this include surveys,

impact assessment, control of pollution, regeneration programmes, support to organizations,

research and training to augment the requisite manpower, collection and dissemination of

environmental information and creation of environmental awareness among all sectors of the

country’s population. Statistical Adviser carries out all the statistical activities of the Ministry.

The Statistical staff in position in the Ministry is as follows:-

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1

13.00.01 Indira Gandhi Forest Academy, Dehradun

Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy imparts training to Indian Forest Service(IFS)

Probationers, and conducts in-service training courses for the IFS officers.

There is no statistical set up in the Academy.

13.00.02 National Museum of Natural History:

There are no statistical Activities in the Museum

13.00.03 Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata

The Zoological Survey of India was established in 1916, primarily to explore and

inventories the faunal resources (diversity) of the country and to collect and document the

base line data with regard to taxonomy, distribution, bio-ecology, etc., of all available animal

groups. During the last 91 years and largely particularly from the Second Five Year Plan period

the Zoological Survey of India has grown from a small unit at the Indian Museum, Calcutta, to

a premier National Institution with 16 Regional and field Stations spread all over India with

Headquarters at Calcutta. Over the successive plan periods the functions of Zoological Survey

of India have also expanded gradually. Zoological Survey of India also acts as a custodian of the

National Zoological Collections with comprise more than two million specimens belonging to

some 81,000 species including about 10,000 species of other neighboring countries like

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There is no Statistical Sector or Division in the Zoological Survey of India. However,

major statistical activities of the survey include collection, compilation and analysis of statistical

data, entry of faunal diversity and distribution etc. No Statistical Publication is brought by the

Survey.

The Statistical staff in a position in the Zoological Survey of India is as follows:-

Professional : —

Intermediate : —

Primary : 3

Total : 3

13.00.04 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun

Established in 1906, the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, is one of the oldest

institutions of its kind, and acclaimed the world over. The Institute caters, in particular, to the

research needs of the Indo-Gangetic plains of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Western

Uttar Pradesh, as well as the U.P. Himalayas. Forestry research at the FRI is organized under

fourteen divisions. The Institute has been conferred the status of “Deemed University” by

Ministry of Human Resource Development. The Institute conducts Ph.D. programmes for

postgraduates students; Postgraduate diploma courses in Pulp and Paper Technology, Wood

Technology and Plantation Technology, and; Networking with other training institutions involved

in the field of forestry education. The research perspectives of the Institute focus on Production

and certification of quality seed/planting materials relating to important tree species of its

zone of reference; Social forestry; Eco-rehabilitation of the central Himalayas of U.P.; Utilisation

of wood and development of non-wood forest products; Afforestation techniques for trees

sites and wastelands; etc.

The Statistical Branch of the Institute functions under the Group Coordinator (Research)

of the Forest Research Institute (FRI). The mandate of the statistical branch is to do research in

the theme wise thrust areas like Policy issues with special reference to Linkages between Forest

& Society; Integration of Green Accounting with National Accounting System, and ; Forest

Surveys. Beside, the Statistics Branch also collects data from the jurisdiction States & UTs of

the institute (Haryana, Punjab, UP, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh & Delhi) for the “Forestry Statistics

India”, a biennial publication of ICFRE, HQ.

13.00.05 Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE, Dehradun)

Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) was constituted by Ministry

of Environment and Forests, Government of India, in December, 1986 to formulate, organize,

direct and manage forestry research; transfer developed technologies to States and other

agencies; and impart forestry education. The main objectives of the Council are to undertake,

aid, promote and coordinate forestry education, research and applications thereof; develop

and maintain a National Library and Information Centre for forestry and allied sciences; act as

a clearing house for research and general information related to forests and wildlife; develop

forestry extension programmes and propagate the same through mass media, audiovisual aids


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and extension machinery, and; provide consultancy services in the field of forestry research,

education and allied sciences.

The Division of Statistics under the Directorate of Extension of the Council functions

under an Assistant Director General (Statistics) who reports to the Deputy Director General

(Extension). The Division of Statistics, ICFRE is mandated to carry out the work relating to

collection, processing and dissemination of statistics pertaining to the forestry sector of India;

Forest Certification; and providing statistical inputs to ongoing research/consultancy programme

at ICFRE and its institutes.

Following statistical publications are brought out by the Statistical Division:

Quarterly: Timber/Bamboo Trade Bulletin

Biennial: Forestry Statistics India

Statistical staff in position in the Council is as given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 0

Total : 4

13.00.06 Forest Survey of India

In the Forest Survey of India, there are 5 offices which deal with different statistical

activities. At the Headquarter, the forest inventory unit deals with the statistical activities of

the organization. This unit was created in 2001 with merger of two statistical units namely

Machine Data Management Unit and Methodology Unit which were established in 1981,

primarily for designing, collection, scrutiny and processing of forest inventory data. At present

the main function of this unit is to design the methodology for carrying out Forest and Trees

Outside Forest (TOF) inventory in different parts of the country using conventional and Remote

sensing data based methodology. The Unit also carries out data processing, analysis, report

writing, and generates national level estimates of different parameters of forest and TOF. This

unit also helps State Forest Departments in all their statistical requirements and also provides

training to forestry personnel in inventory methods of forest/tree resources.

The other 4 offices are zonal offices of FSI located at Shimla, Nagpur, Kolkata and

Bangalore. The main work of these zonal offices is to carry out field inventory of forest and

trees outside forest in the selected districts and to send the entered data to headquarter for

processing and analysis.

Statistical manpower in position in the Forest Survey of India is as given below:

Professional : 13

Intermediate : 24

Primary : 128

Total : 165


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14. MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

The Ministry of External Affairs is responsible for all aspects of external relations. Various divisions

of the Ministry deal with bilateral political and economic work as also policy planning, multilateral

organizations, regional groupings, legal matters, disarmament, protocol, consular, Indian Diaspora, press

and publicity, administration and other aspects. Indian diplomats are required to project India’s interests,

both at home and abroad on a wide variety of issues. These include bilateral political and economic

cooperation, trade and investment promotion, cultural interaction, press and media liaison as well as a

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15. MINISTRY OF FINANCE

Ministry of Finance is the administrative unit for four departments viz. Department of

Economic Affairs, Department of Expenditure, Department of Revenue, and Department of

Disinvestment

15.01 Department of Economic Affairs

The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) is the nodal agency of the Union Government to

formulate and monitor country’s economic policies and programmes having a bearing on domestic

and international aspects of economic management. A principal responsibility of this Department is

the preparation of the Union Budget annually (excluding the Railway Budget). Other main functions

include formulation and monitoring of macroeconomic policies, including issues relating to

fiscal policy and public finance, inflation, public debt management and the functioning of Capital

Market including Stock Exchanges. In this context, it looks at ways and means to raise internal

resources through taxation, market borrowings and mobilization of small savings; monitoring

and raising of external resources through multilateral and bilateral Official Development

Assistance, sovereign borrowings abroad, foreign investments and monitoring foreign exchange

resources including balance of payments, and; production of bank notes and coins of various

denominations, postal stationery, postal stamps; etc.

15.02 Department of Expenditure

The Department of Expenditure under the Ministry of Finance is mainly responsible for

financial rules and regulations and delegation of financial powers; Financial sanction relating

to all Ministries and offices of the Government of India, which are not covered by powers

delegated or conferred by the rules or by any general or special orders; Review of the staffing

of Government establishments with a view to securing economy; Matters relating to the

Controller General of Accounts including; Analysis of the State’s Finances, day to day financial

problems of States and Fiscal Reforms Programmes of the States; Appraisal and approval of

plan Investment/expenditure proposals of Central Ministries/PSUs. Matters relating to

Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC)/Public Investment Board (PIB) procedures and Secretariat

work for the PIB; etc., are also handled by the Department.

The Pay Research Unit in Department of Expenditure is mainly responsible for collection,

compilation and analysis of data on actual expenditure incurred in pay and various types of

allowances as well as data pertaining to the strength of the Central Government Civilian

employees and Employees of Union Territory Administration. In addition, the unit works out

financial implications of the proposals coming before the National Council of JCM etc.

The Unit brings out an Annual Publication viz. “Brochure on Pay and Allowances of

Central Government Civilian Employees”, providing statistical information regarding

expenditure incurred by the different Ministries/Departments of the Central Government on

pay & various types of allowances such as Dearness Allowance, house Rent Allowance,

Compensatory (City) Allowance, Overtime Allowance etc. in respect of its regular employees.


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It also provides information on Ministries/Departments-wise and Group-wise number of

sanctioned posts and numbers of incumbents in position.

Statistical manpower in position in Department of Expenditure is as given below;

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 4

Total : 7

15.03 Department of Revenue

The Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance is responsible for exercising

control in respect of matters relating to all the Direct and Indirect Taxes through two statutory

Boards, namely, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and the Central Board of Excise &

Customs (CBEC). Each Board is headed by a Chairman who is also ex-officio Special Secretary to

the Government of India. Matters relating to the levy and collection of customs and central

excise duties and service tax fall within the purview of CBEC. The two Boards were constituted

under the Central Board of Revenue Act 1963. CBDT has six members and CBEC has five

members. The Members are also ex-officio Additional Secretaries to the Government of India.

The Headquarters of the Department of Revenue looks after matters relating to all administrative

work pertaining to Department, all matters relating to economic Intelligence and coordination

of work between two Boards.

15.03.01 Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC)

Directorate of Data Management in Central Board of Excise & Customs is responsible

for collection and analysis of statistics relating to Central Excise & Customs and for rendering

technical advice to the Central Board of Excise & Customs from statistical standpoint. Besides

providing information for monitoring of revenue collection by various Central Excise & Customs

Commission rates, information collected and compiled by the Directorate is used by the Ministry

of Finance in framing fiscal policy and taking necessary corrective steps for augmenting revenue

collection through the instrument of Union Budget each year and through several Notifications

issued from time to time, as an ongoing exercise.

Following Publications are brought out by the Directorate of Data Management, CBEC:

Ø Central Excise-Formations at a Glance;

Ø Particulars of Factories Paying Revenue of Rs. One Crore or more per annum;

Ø Central Excise – An Abstract of Statistics;

Ø Customs at a Glance; and

Ø Custom Formations at a Glance

The statistical manpower in position in CBEC is given below:

Professional : 8

Intermediate : 7


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Primary : 33

Total : 48

15.03.02 Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)

Directorate of Inspection (Research, Statistics and Public Relation) is the main

organization in the CBDT dealing with all statistical matters concerning direct taxes. The main

functions of this Directorate are to conduct research studies on tax matters, publish All-India

Revenue Statistics, prepare taxpayers information series, and other matters.

15.03.03 Central Economic Intelligence Bureau(CEIB)

The Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB), an organisation of Department of

Revenue, was set up with the objective of coordinating and strengthening the intelligence

gathering activities as well as investigative efforts of all the Agencies which enforce economic

laws. The Bureau collect intelligence and information regarding aspects of the black economy

which require close watch and investigation; keep a watch on different aspects of economic

offences; and the emergence of new types of such offences and evolving counter measures

required for effectively dealing with existing new types of economic offences; acting as the

nodal agency for cooperation and coordination at the international level with other customs,

drugs, law enforcement and other agencies in the area of economic offences; implementation

of the COFEPOSA ( Conservation of Foreign Exchange & Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act,

1971 which provides for preventive detention of persons involved in smuggling and foreign

exchange rackets under certain specified circumstances), and act as a Secretariat of the Economic

Intelligence Council which acts as the apex body to ensure full co-ordination among the various

Agencies including Central Bureau of investigation, Reserve Bank of India, Intelligence Bureau

etc.

The Bureau has a small statistical set up which brings out a ‘New Letter and Intelligence

Digest’ compiling trends in economic offences which is a useful reference material for different

institutions and field formations dealing with economic offences.

The statistical manpower in position in the Bureau is as given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1

15.03.04 Directorate of Enforcement

The Enforcement Directorate, with its Headquarters at New Delhi and seven zonal offices

at Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Jalandhar, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore is mainly responsible

for enforcing Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999 and Prevention of money Laundering

Act 2002; collection and development of intelligence relating to violation of the provisions of

Foreign Exchange Management Act and Prevention of money Laundering Act 2002; conducting

searches of suspected persons, conveyances and premises and seizing incriminating materials


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(including Indian and foreign currencies involved); ensuring inquiry into and investigation of

suspected violations of provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act and Prevention of

money Laundering Act 2002; adjudication of cases of violations of Foreign Exchange

Management Act penalties departmentally and also for confiscating the amounts involved in

violations; attaching and confiscating properties involved in the act of Money laundering, and

; arresting/prosecuting person suspected to be involved in the act of money laundering.

In addition, the Directorate also processes and recommends cases for detention of

habitual offender under the conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of smuggling

Act (COFEPOSA) 1974.

15.04 Department of Disinvestment

The Department of Disinvestment was set up as a separate department in December,

1999 and was later renamed as Ministry of Disinvestment from September, 2001. It is one of

the Departments under the Ministry of Finance. The department is responsible for all matters

relating to disinvestment of Central Government equity from Central Public Sector Undertakings;

all matters relating to sale of Central Government equity through offer for sale or private

placement in the erstwhile Central Public Sector Undertakings; implementation of

disinvestment decisions, including appointment of advisers, pricing of shares, and other terms

and conditions of disinvestment, and; financial policy in regard to the utilization of the proceeds

of disinvestment channelised into the National Investment Fund.

The Department of Disinvestment has neither statistical Unit nor any statistical post.


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16. MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries, set up in July 1988, is the main central

agency of the Government responsible for developing a strong and vibrant food processing

sector with a view to creating increased job opportunities in rural areas, enabling the farmers

to reap benefit from modern technology, creating surplus for exports, and stimulating demand

for processed food. The subjects looked after by the Ministry are : fruits and vegetable processing

industry; food grain milling industry; dairy products, processing of poultry and eggs, meat and

meat products; fish processing; bread, oilseeds; meals (edible), breakfast foods, biscuits,

confectionery(including cocoa processing and chocolate), malt extract, protein isolate, high

protein food, weaning food; beer, including non-alcoholic beer; alcoholic drinks from non-

molasses base; aerated waters / soft drinks and other processed foods; specialized packaging

for food processing industries; and technical assistance and advice to food processing industry.


Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1


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17. MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is responsible for implementation of

various health and family welfare programmes through the State Governments. Though Health

is a State subject, policy matters are formulated by the Union Government. The Ministry is

implementing various national programmes for control of AIDS, malaria, Leprosy, Tuberculosis

and Blindness. The Ministry comprise of four departments viz. Department of Health and Family

Welfare, Department of AYUSH, Department of Health Research, and Department of AIDS

Control. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) is an attached office of the

Department of Health and family Welfare which has subordinate offices spread all over the

country. The DGHS renders technical advice on all medical and public health matters and is

involved in implementation of various health schemes.

17.01 Department of Health and Family Welfare

The Department of Health & Family Welfare deals with medical and public health

matters including drug control and prevention of food adulteration as well as family welfare

programmes aimed at population stabilization consistent with the requirements of economic

growth, social development and environmental protection. The Department has a Statistics

Division which is mainly responsible for the statistical requirements of the Department. The

programme divisions under the DGHS look after their individual statistical needs. Other

three Departments also take care of their statistical needs through statistical or other

personnel.

In the Department of Health and Family Welfare,the Statistics Division is headed by

Additional Director General (Statistics), an HAG level officer of the Indian Statistical Service.

The Division is responsible for monitoring and evaluation of various Health and Family Welfare

programmes under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), a flagship programme of the

Government. The Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy of the Ministry increasingly focuses on

achieving output / outcome results. The main statistical activities of the Statistical Division

are: Routine Monitoring of the Programmes, Quality Assessment Monitoring, and Validation

of data through Triangulation Methodology, Evaluation Surveys, Concurrent Evaluation of

NRHM, and monitoring Population Research Centre. The Statistics Division also organizes large

scale sample surveys like the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Districts Level Household

Surveys (DLHS), Facility Surveys to assess and evaluate the outcome/impact of the programmes

/interventions from time to time. These surveys provide data at district / state level covering

the areas like Family Planning, Immunization, Maternal & Child Health, Infrastructure facilities

available at various levels including trained / skilled manpower (medical and paramedical) in

the country. The Survey data also gives disaggregated information by gender, social groups,

income quintiles, etc.

The Statistics Division is also looking after the work of two autonomous institutions,

viz., International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, and National Institute of

Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi. These institutions are involved in teaching,


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research and training activities in the field of demography and public health. IIPS Mumbai has

been the nodal agency for conducting surveys like NFHS, DLHS, etc.

The Statistical Division in the Department of Health and Family Welfare bring out the

following publications:

Ø National Family Health Survey III (NFHS) — All India Report

Ø District Level Household Survey-III (DLHS) - State and District Fact

Sheets (2008-09)

Ø Family Welfare Statistics in India

Ø Bulletin on Rural Health Statistics in India

Statistical manpower in position in the Dept of Health &Family Welfare is given

below:

Professional : 14

Intermediate : 30

Primary : 0

Total : 44

17.01.01 Central Bureau of Health Intelligence

Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) is the National Nodal Institution for Health

Intelligence in the Country under Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health &

Family Welfare. The CBHI, headed by Dy. Director General & Director has four division’s viz.

Policy & Infrastructure; Training, Collaboration & Research; Information & Evaluation; and

Administration. Six Health Information Field Survey Units (FSUs) of CBHI are located in different

Regional Offices of Health and Family Welfare (ROHFW) of GOI at Bangalore, Bhopal,

Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Lucknow & Patna, each headed by a Dy. Director with Technical and

support staff, who function under the supervision of Sr./Regional Director (HFW/GOI). Regional

Health Statistics Training Center (RHSTC) of CBHI at Mohali, Punjab (near Chandigarh), CBHI-

FSUs and Medical Record Department & Training Centers (MRDTC) of Safdarjung Hospital New

Delhi & JIPMER Pondicherry; conduct various CBHI In-service Training courses. CBHI functions

with the broad objective to:-

Ø Maintain and disseminate the (i) National Health Profile (NHP); (ii) Health

Sector Policy Reform Options Database (HS-PROD), (iii) Inventory and

GIS Mapping of Govt. Health Facilities in India, etc.

Ø Review the Progress of Health Sector Millennium Development Goal

(MDG) in India

Ø Annual Road Safety profile of India

Ø Facilitate Capacity Building & Human Resource Development, and

Ø Need based Operational Research for Efficient Health Information System

(HIS) as well as use of Family of International Classification in India &

South East Asia Region.


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The major statistical activities of CBHI are to Maintain and Disseminate the National

health Profile on Demography (population and vital statistics), Socio-Economic (education,

social indicators, economic indicators, employment, housing and amenities, drinking water

and sanitation), Health Status (morbidity and mortality, reproductive and child health,

disabilities ) and Health and Infrastructure including AYUSH (education infrastructure, health

care service infrastructure).

Following publications are brought out by the CBHI:

Ø Road Safety Profile of India

Ø National Health Profile (NHP)

Ø Mortality Statistics in India

Ø Health Information of India

Statistical manpower in position in the CBHI is as given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 0

Total : 4

17.01.02 National Institute of Communicable Diseases

The National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) was established on July 30,

1963, by expanding and reorganizing the activities of the Malaria Institute of India (MII), which

remained in existence under different names since its inception in 1909. The reorganized

institute was established to develop a national center for teaching and research in various

disciplines of epidemiology and control of communicable diseases. The Institute was envisaged

to act as a center par excellence for providing multi disciplinary and integrated expertise in the

control of communicable disease. The Institute was also entrusted the task of developing reliable

rapid economic epidemiological tools which could be effectively applied in the field for the

control of communicable diseases. The objectives of the institute broadly cover three activities

viz. training, service and operational research in the field of communicable diseases and their

prevention and control in the country.

The Statistical Monitoring and Evaluation Cell(SM&C) of the Institute is responsible for

statistical activities. The major activities of the Cell are:

Ø to assist in collection, presentation, analysis and feedback of the data

received in IDSP;

Ø to collect, compile, analyse and disseminate information of diseases and

prepare various analytical reports for monitoring purposes at the time

of disease outbreaks;

Ø to provide Statistical Support to the Faculty, Ph.D. Scholars and Staff of

NICD; Lecture on Statistics and Computer related topics for various

training programmes;


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Ø to prepare weekly reports on Cholera cases in Delhi;

Ø to provide Administrative Support for the conduct short term courses

Statistical manpower in position in the Institute is as given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 6

Total : 10

17.01.03 All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIH&PH), Kolkata,

The All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIH&PH), Kolkata, a premier

organization of the Government of India, was established in the year 1932 with the assistance

of Rockefeller Foundation for undertaking Post-Graduate teaching and research in various

disciplines of health intelligence and health services.

The Department of Statistics of the Institute was established in 1946 which was earlier

a part of Epidemiology Department. Apart from the regular activities like teaching in various

courses run by the Institute, the Department undertakes Research & Consultancy activities. It

also conducts a one year ‘Diploma Course in Health Statistics’. The Department is headed by

Director Professor who is an SAG level officer of ISS.

Statistical manpower in position in Institute is as given below:

Professional : 8

Intermediate : 8

Primary : 0

Total : 16

17.01.04 National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore

The National Tuberculosis Institute (NTI) was established in 1959 at Bangalore to

formulate TB Control Programme best suited to a country like India, where the TB problem is

large and the resources are meager. The Institute undertook several Operational Research

Studies and evolved a nationally applicable TB Control Programme. The Institute trains the key

personnel to run the programme through District TB Centres.

Statistics Section of the Institute has been an integral part of the National Tuberculosis

Institute since its inception. The main function of the section has been to render Statistical

support to the other sections in planning studies/surveys and in collection, analysis and

interpretation of data organized as a part of the study/survey. Over a period of time, the section

has developed an in-house software programme for sampling data entry, interim analysis &

for obtaining final outputs for studies that are undertaken by various sections of the institute.

The section also has been involved in training the statistical personnel working under the TB

control programme. The section is also involved in maintenance of the Computer Centre and

all the IT requirements of the Institute.


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Statistical manpower in position in the Institute is as given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 5

Primary : 4

Total : 12

17.02 Department of AYUSH

The Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H) was created

in March, 1995 and re-named as Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha

and Homeopathy (AYUSH) in November, 2003 with a view to providing focused attention to

development of Education & Research in Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and

Homeopathy systems. The Department continued to lay emphasis on upgradation of AYUSH

educational standards, quality control and standardization of drugs, improving the availability

of medicinal plant material, research and development and awareness generation about efficacy

of the systems domestically and internationally. The Department is mainly responsible for

upgrading the educational standards in the Indian Systems of Medicines and Homeopathy

colleges in the country; strengthening the existing research institutions and ensure a time-

bound research programme on identified diseases for which these systems have an effective

treatment; drawing up of schemes for promotion, cultivation and regeneration of medicinal

plants used in these systems and; evolving Pharmacopoeia standards for Indian Systems of

Medicine and Homeopathy drugs.

The Planning and Evaluation Cell (P & E Cell) of the department is its statistical unit.

The Cell is responsible for collection, compilation, tabulation and analysis of AYUSH

infrastructural statistics like health care facilities (hospitals / beds / dispensaries), medical

manpower, medical education and licenses pharmacies; dissemination of statistics to various

stakeholders, and; conducting surveys / studies on topics of interest to department.

The department brings out one statistical publication viz. “AYUSH in India” containing

information on AYUSH infrastructure facilities, AYUSH educational institutions, administrative

set up of AYUSH in States / UTs, Budget / Expenditure, etc.

Statistical Manpower in position in the department is as follows:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 2

Total : 6

17.03 Department of Health Research

The Department of Health Research was set up in May 2007 under the Ministry of

Health and Family Welfare with a view to achieve closer interaction with health systems and


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disease control programmes supported by the continued utilization of the scientific and

technological advances. The department aims at providing leadership and support in generation

of new knowledge, improve medical and health research in medical colleges and medical schools

and helps in providing inputs for operationalization of disease control programmes. It also has

the mandate to address the manpower and infrastructure needs to medical and health research

in India and assess the health technology and health sciences developed in the country.

17.03.01 National Institute of Medical Statistics

National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS) is one of premier research institute of

Indian Council of Medical Research, Dept. of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family

Welfare, New Delhi. NIMS was established to meet the demand for statistical support in health

research. The institute was set-up in 1977 as Institute for Research in Medical Statistics, has

been renamed in 2006 as the National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS) due to its immense

contribution in the field of health research methodology. From time to time, it organizes

teaching/training programs for students affiliated to various universities as well as for

professionals working in the area of health and development. It handles a number of research

projects on policy and program evaluation, epidemiology, modeling and health research

information system. Data management is one of the objectives of Institute.

Statistical manpower in position in the National Institute of Medical Statistics is as

given below:

Professional : 13

Intermediate : 16

Primary : 18

Total : 47

17.04 Department of AIDS Control

The Department of AIDS Control is the administrative department for the National AIDS Control

Organization (NACO) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that provides leadership to HIV/AIDS

control programme in India through 35 HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Societies. India, through its

National AIDS Control Programme stands committed to Millennium Development Goal (MDG)

of reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015. To accomplish these goals, NACO plans to

decentralize the management of HIV/AIDS control activities, giving greater responsibilities to

the state and districts level, while emphasizing its own role to coordinate, guide, monitor and

facilitate sharing of best practice and innovations across the SACS programme.

National AIDS Control Organization collects data on components related to HIV/AIDS

through various mechanisms including routine monitoring through Computerized Management

Information System (CMIS), sentinel surveillance systems, Behavioral Surveillance surveys and

other evaluations/operations research studies. The main objectives of this information

collection through integrated M&E system are to track the progress of HIV/AIDS epidemic in

the country and to track performance of National AIDS Control Program.


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CMIS is designed in line with the existing structure for implementing project activities

and the data flow. The primary data generation unit for the reporting is the facility, which

includes Blood Banks, STI Clinics, Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC’s). Anti

Retroviral Therapy (ART) Centers, community Care Centers, Community Care Centers (CCC’s),

Projects among high risk groups (HRG) implemented through NGO’s.

Currently CMIS is installed at all 35 State AIDS Control Societies and 3 Municipal AIDS

Control Societies and all except Lakshadweep are reporting through CMIS. While CMIS was

implemented in phased way, the computerization actually took place only at State level.

However, recently many States have decentralized the systems and data gets computerized at

district or facility level. Some places who have achieved this are Karnataka, Gujarat and

Chandigarh, with more States opting for the same. ART CMIS module is web-based and data

from all ART Centers is directly uploaded on NACO server.

To improve reporting, ongoing training programs are conducted, The Monitoring and

Evaluation ( M&E) Division, NACO is responsible for overall support in CMIS implementation

and troubleshooting. The data from CMIS is used extensively for strategic planning and desk

research. Development of software is an evolving process and validations and verifications are

inbuilt to improve data quality.

Key Function of the M & E Division at National Level are to: Develop and manage overall

National M&E plan and Strategic Information Management system; Establish Technical Resource

Group for guiding activities including experts from education, research institute and related

ministries and international agencies; Direct state SIMU and affiliated institutions in collecting,

collating, analyzing M&E data for HIV prevention and Control activities across country; Report

data on HIV epidemic to ministry for completion of annual and periodic reports for policy and

strategic planning; Monitor, evaluate and supervise activities on HIV M&E across country;

Organize training in collaboration with academic institution for the SIMU staff, and; Conduct

evaluation studies and add indicators suitable for realistic situation.

At the State level, the M & E Division’s key functions are to: Develop State M&E plans

and implement M&E activities within State and report to National M&E; Collect, verify and

process data on HIV related activities from all units within State; Implement HIV M&E activities

locally which would include ensuring data quality, the accuracy, completeness and timeliness

and report it National SIMU; Prepare State level reports, provide data to State Government,

provide analysis and evidence to guide the programme decisions; Technically and Professionally

guide, supervise and support data collection for M&E indicators from the districts, and; Organize

trainings on M&E based on needs.

The Statistical Publications brought by NACO are:

Ø Quarterly and Annual CMIS Bulletins;

Ø Quarterly NACO Newsletter

Ø Core Indicators for Monitoring & Evaluation

Ø Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit

Ø Operations manual for Strategic Information Management Unit


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18. MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES

The Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises is responsible for the

development and growth of capital goods and engineering industries in the country besides

framing policy guidelines for Central Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) and administratively dealing

with 48 operating PSEs. The Ministry comprises of Department of Heavy Industry and the

Department of Public Enterprises.

18.01 Department of Heavy Industry

The Department of Heavy Industry is concerned with the development of the heavy

engineering industry, machine tool industry, heavy electrical industry and auto-industry. It is,

besides, vested with the administrative charge of 48 Public Sector Enterprises. The industries

covered by this Department provide goods and services for almost all sectors of the economy,

including power, rail and road transport. The department also looks after the Machine Building

Industry and caters to the requirements of equipment for basic industries such as steel, non-

ferrous metals, fertilizers, refineries, petrochemicals, shipping, textiles, paper, cement, sugar

etc. The Department is responsible for development of a wide range of intermediate engineering

products like castings, forgings, diesel engines, industrial gears and gear boxes.

18.02 Department of Public Enterprises

The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) was set up in 1990 by converting the then

Bureau of Public Enterprises (set up in 1965) into a full-fledged department under Ministry of

Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises. The department acts as a nodal agency for all PSEs and

assists in policy formulation pertaining to the role of PSEs in the economy as also in laying

down policy guidelines on performance improvement and evaluation, financial accounting,

personnel management and in related areas. It also collects, evaluates and maintains

information on several areas in respect of PSEs. DPE also provides an interface between the

Administrative Ministries and the PSEs. In fulfilling its role, it associates itself with other

Ministries and organizations as also premier management institutes in the country.

The Department does not have any set up. However, it brings out a report called Public

Enterprises Survey on the working and performance of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)

every year which contains both descriptive and statistical information. Data for the publication

is collected from about 250 CPSEs in a structured questionnaire and analyzed. The work is

handled by senior level Economists.

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19. MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) discharges multifarious functions, important among

them being the maintenance of Internal Security. Though as per the Constitution of India,

‘public order’ and ‘police’ are the responsibilities of States, Article 355 of the Constitution

enjoins the Union to protect every State against external aggression and internal disturbance

and to ensure that the government of every State is carried on in accordance with the provisions

of the Constitution. The Ministry extends manpower and financial support, guidance and

expertise to the State Governments for the maintenance of security, peace and harmony without

trampling upon the constitutional rights of the States. The Ministry has six constituent

Departments viz. Department of Border Management; Department of Home; Department of

Internal Security; Department of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) Affairs; Department of Official

Languages, and; Department of States.

19.01 Department of Home

19.01.01 Office of the Registrar General of India

The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India (ORGI),

headquartered at Delhi, is an Attached Office of the Ministry of Home Affairs with its own

administrative setup. It is currently headed by the Secretary and Registrar General, India, who

also functions as the Census Commissioner of India. ORGI has 33 subordinate offices known as

Directorate of Census Operations in the States/UTs. The main functions of ORGI are to: conduct

the decennial population census and tabulate and disseminate the census data under the

provisions of the Census Act 1948 and the Census (Amendment) Act, 1993; co-ordinate and

unify, at the national level, the work relating to implementation of the Registration of Births

and Deaths Act, 1969 and to compile data of vital statistics on births and deaths; estimate at

the national and state level the fertility and mortality measures through a well-represented

sample of 1.3 million households under the Sample Registration System (SRS); and provide

opinion to the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs,

Government of India on the State/UT Governments’ recommendations concerning inclusion

in, exclusion from and other modifications in the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes

lists in their respective States/UTs.

Since 2003, Registrar General, India has been functioning as National Registration

Authority and Registrar General of Citizen Registration under the Citizenship (Amendment)

Act, 2003. Post Enumeration Survey (PES), fertility and mortality studies and population

projections for India and States on the basis of Census Data are also carried out by ORGI.

A list of publications brought out by the office relating to 2001 census and other regular

publications are as follows:

Ø Final Population Totals-2001- India, States, UAs and Towns*

Ø Table on Houses, Household Amenities & Assets-2001-India-Total*

Ø Table on Houses, Household Amenities & Assets-2001-India-SC


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Ø Table on Houses, Household Amenities & Assets-2001-India-ST

Ø Primary Census Abstract-India(General Table 5)*

Ø Primary Census Abstract-India(SC Table 8)

Ø Primary Census Abstract-India(SC Table 9)

Ø India Adminstrative Atlas, 1872-2001- India*

(A Historical Perspective)

Ø Housing Atlas

Ø Language Atlas-1991-India

Ø Map Profile-2001-India States and Uts

Ø Scheduled Tribe Atlas of India

*: State-wise publications are also available

Statistical Staff in position in the 35 offices of the O/o RGI is as follows:

Professional : 185

Intermediate : 297

Primary : 1983

Total : 2465

19.01.02 National Crime Records Bureau

National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) was set up in 1986 by a Resolution of the

Government of India following the recommendation of the National Police Commission. The

Bureau is an attached office of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The four Units, in existence at that

time, namely; Directorate of Coordination Police Computers, Data Section of the Coordination

Division of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Statistical Section of the Bureau of Police Research

and Development, Central Finger Prints Bureau of the Central Bureau of Investigation were

merged in the NCRB. The main objectives of the NCRB are to function as a clearing house of

information on crime and criminals including those operating at National and International

levels so as to assist the investigators, and others in linking crimes to their perpetrators; to

store, coordinate and disseminate information on inter-state and international criminals from

and to respective States, national investigating agencies, courts and prosecutors in India without

having to refer to the Police station records; to collect and process crime statistics at the National

level; to receive from and supply data to penal and correctional agencies for their tasks of

rehabilitation of criminals, their remand, parole, premature release etc; to coordinate, guide

and assist the functioning of the State Crime Records Bureaus; to provide training facilities to

personnel of the Crime records bureaus; and to evaluate, develop and modernize crime Records

Bureaus.

Statistical Branch of NCRB is mainly concerned with collection, compilation and

publication of annual and monthly crime data. The Branch also collects limited data on some

crime heads for Monthly Crime Statistics. This is an unpublished and provisional data and is

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The following publications are brought out by the Statistical Branch of NCRB:

Annual:

Ø Crime in India,

Ø Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India,

Ø Prison Statistics in India

Monthly:

Ø Monthly Crime Statistics (MCS)

The Statistical Branch is headed by Chief Statistical Officer, a Senior Time Scale officer

of the Indian Statistical Service. He is assisted by a Statistical Officer and a Junior Staff Officer

equivalent to Junior Time Scale of the Indian Statistical Service. The Statistical Officer is a

statistical post which came to National Crime Records Bureau along with the Statistical Section

of the Bureau of Police Research and Development when NCRB was set up.

Statistical manpower in position in NCRB is given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 0

Total : 3

19.01.03 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

The Central Reserve Police Force is an armed Force of the Union of India, with the basic

role of striking reserve to assist the State/Union Territories in Police operations to maintain

law and order and contain insurgency. The Force came into existence as the Crown

Representative’s Police on the 27th July 1939. It became the Central Reserve Police Force on

enactment of the CRPF Act on 28th December 1949. Its role is that of a catalyst in maintaining

law & order, and returns to barracks once this objective is achieved. The force is also being

used for various police duties in various States.

There is no statistical set up with statistical staff in the Force.

19.01.04 Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)

The Central Industrial Security Force is one of the organization of Para Military Forces

functioning under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

No statistical branch is functioning in the organization as a separate identity. Statistical

data like sanctioned / released / posted strength of the units, manpower position of the Force,

Death cases, Assault cases, Fire Incidents in PSUs, major Thefts / Recovery cases of stolen

property in various PSUs, Disciplinary cases, Court cases of the Force, etc., is maintained by

different branches at Force Hqrs.

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19.01.05 Directorate General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (DG-ITBP)

ITBP was conceived on 24 Oct, 1962 for Border Guarding Duties from Karakoram Pass

in Ladakh to Diphu La in Arunachal Pradesh covering 3488 KM of India-China Border and manning

Border Outposts on altitudes ranging from 9000’ to 18500’ in the Western, Middle & Eastern

Sector of the India-China Border. It is basically a mountain trained Force and most of the officers

& men are professionally trained Mountaineers and Skiers. Being the first responder for natural

Disaster in the Himalayas, ITBP has been carrying out numerous rescue and relief operations.

It is also responsible for keeping Vigil on the northern borders, detection and prevention of

border violations, and promotion of the sense of security among the local populace; checking

illegal immigration, trans-border smuggling and crimes; providing Security to sensitive

installations, banks and protected persons, and; Restore and preserve order in any area in the

event of disturbance.

There is no statistical set up in the Directorate.

19.01.06 Directorate General of National Security Guards (DG-NSG)

The National Security Guard (NSG) was set up in 1984 as a Federal Contingency

Deployment Force to tackle all facets of terrorism in the country. The primary role of the Force

is to combat terrorism in whatever form it may assume in areas where activity of terrorists

assumes serious proportions, and the State Police and other Central Police Forces cannot cope

up with the situation. The NSG is a Force specially equipped and trained to deal with specific

situations and is therefore, used only in exceptional situations. The Force is not designed to

undertake the functions of the State Police Forces or other Para Military Forces of the Union of

India.

There is no statistical set up in the Directorate.

19.02 Department of Official Languages

The Department of Official Languages is mainly responsible for ensuring implementation

of Official Language Policy of the Union in the offices of Government of India.

For various activities of the department, neither any data is maintained nor there is any

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20. MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is the apex authority of

Government of India at the national level to formulate policies, sponsor and support

programme, coordinate the activities of various Central Ministries, State Governments and

other nodal authorities and monitor the programmes concerning all issues of urban

employment, poverty and housing in the country.

The National Buildings Organisation (NBO), an attached office of the Ministry, was

established in 1954 under the then Ministry of Works and Housing for technology transfer,

experimentation, development and dissemination of housing statistics. NBO was restructured

in 1992. NBO was further restructured in March, 2006 with the revised mandate keeping in

view the current requirements under the National Housing Policy, and various socio-economic

and statistical functions connected with housing and building activities.

The mandate of the NBO in its restructured form is to collect, collate, validate, analyze,

disseminate and publish the housing and building construction statistics; to organize training

programmes for the officers and staff of the State Government engaged in collection and

dissemination of housing and building construction statistics; to create and manage a

documentation centre relating to housing, poverty, slums and infrastructure related statistics;

to coordinate with all the State Governments / Research Institutions / UNCHS / International

Bodies etc. as being a nodal agency: to conduct regular short term sample surveys to study the

impact of the plan schemes; and to undertake special socio-economic studies in the field of

housing and infrastructure.

The NBO brings out a Publication “Housing Statistics, an Over View”. The statistical

manpower, in position in NBO is as follows:

Professional : 5

Intermediate : 9

Primary : -

Total : 14


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21. MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

The Ministry of Human Resource Development consists of two departments viz.

Department of School Education and Literacy, and Department of Higher Education. The Ministry

is mainly responsible for taking up schemes and projects for Elementary Education, Social

Education and Adult education; Secondary education & vocational guidance; University

Education; Central Universities; Rural Higher Education; Foreign Aid Programme relating to

Higher Education, Technical Education Planning; Institutions of higher learning (other than

Universities); development of books; educational research, and; related matters.

The Planning, Monitoring and Statistics Bureau of the Ministry, consisting of four

Divisions viz. Planning & Monitoring Division, Statistics Division, SC/ST Cell and Computerized

Management Information System, is common to both the Departments of the Ministry. The

Statistics Division of the Ministry is the nodal agency for the collection, compilation, processing

and dissemination of educational statistics in the country. The national annual educational

statistics is brought out by the Ministry of Human Resource Development after collecting data

from more than 1 million institutions, covering all levels of education from pre-primary to

higher education though mailed questionnaires in collaboration with the State Education

Departments. On the basis of data collected from States, the Statistics division brings out annual

publications.

Following publications are brought out annually by the Statistics Division:

Ø Selected Education Statistics

Ø Educational Statistics at a Glance

Ø Selected Information on School Education

Ø Examination Results of Secondary & Higher Secondary / Intermediate

Education

Ø Annual Financial Statistics of Education Sector

Ø Education In India

Statistical manpower in position in the Ministry is given as under:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 7

Primary : 4

Total : 15

21.00.01 National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), set up in 1961, is

an autonomous organization of Ministry of Human Resource Development to assist and advise

the governments at the Centre and in States in the implementation of their policies for

education, especially to bring about qualitative changes in school education and teacher

preparation. The council is governed by five statutory committees, viz. Governing Council,


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Executive Committee (chaired by the Union Minister of Education), Finance Committee,

Establishment Committee and Programme Advisory Committee. The NCERT have also National

Institute of Education, Five Regional Institute of Education, and Central Institute of Educational

Technology.

NCERT conducts All India Educational Surveys once in 5-8 years. The latest 7th AIE Survey

was conducted in 2002-03. Apart from the detailed data on enrolment, teachers and physical

facilities in schools, these surveys provide information on ‘number and percentage of rural

habitations in different population slabs served by schools with primary/upper primary/

secondary classes within the habitation. Based upon the findings of the survey, it brings out

the report called “All India Educational Surveys”.

The statistical manpower in position in NCERT is as follows:

Professional : 8

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 3

Total : 13


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22. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, through the mass communication media

consisting of radio, television, films, the press, publications, advertising and traditional mode

of dance and drama, plays a significant part in helping the people to have access to free flow of

information. It also caters to the dissemination of knowledge and entertainment to all sections

of society, striking a careful balance between public interest and commercial needs, in its delivery

of services. The Ministry is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and

regulations and laws relating to information, broadcasting, the press and films. The Ministry is

also responsible for international co-operation in the field of mass media, films and broadcasting

and interacts with its foreign counterparts on behalf of Government of India.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting have four autonomous bodies viz; Prasar

Bharati, Press Council of India, Film and Television Institute of India, Satyajit Ray Television

Institute, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, and Children Film Society; and two public

sector undertaking National Film Development Corporation, and Broadcasting Engineering

Consultants India Limited (BECIL).

The Audience Research Unit of the Ministry, which is the main Statistical Unit, provides

research support to programme planners, producers, sponsors, advertisers & marketers by

preparing audience profile and assessing programme impact and effectiveness through audience

measurement in form of qualitative and quantitative research. It conducts regular in-house

survey (DART) as well as customize the data of the survey done by the outside agency (TAM)

for rating programmes telecast by Doordarshan to suit our requirement; conducts in-depth

interview; general viewership survey, and; monitor voluntary feedback (letters, e-mail, etc.)

received from viewers.

The Audience Research Unit is headed by the Director and assisted by a Joint Director.

They plan research projects at national level and also coordinate the work of all other Audience

Units of Regional Kendras. The ARU at the Kendra levels are headed by Deputy Director (AR)

and Audience Research Officer. They are responsible for preparing audience profile for

programme from time to time. They provide feedback on programmes and advise the

programme administration on the content/quality of programme.

Statistical manpower in position in the Audience Research Unit is given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 16

Primary : 42

Total : 60

22.00.01 Office of Registrar of Newspapers of India

The Office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India came into being in July, 1956. The

office is performing both statutory as well as some non-statutory functions. The Office performs


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both statutory and non-statutory functions. Under the statutory functions, it is responsible for

Compilation and maintenance of a Register of Newspapers containing particulars about all the

newspapers published; Issue of Certificates of Registration to the newspapers published under

valid declaration; Scrutiny and analysis of annual statements sent by the publishers of

newspapers every year; ensuring that newspapers are published in accordance with the

provisions of the Press and Registration of Books Act 1867 and the Rules made there under,

and; preparation and submission to the Government on or before 31st December each year, a

report containing all available information and statistics about the press in India with particular

reference to the emerging trends in circulation and in the direction of common ownership

units etc. Under the non-statutory functions, it is responsible for formulation of Newsprint

Allocation Policy, and assessing and certifying the essential need and requirement of newspaper

establishments to import printing and composing machinery and allied materials.

There is no statistical set up as such in the organization. However, the Report Cell in

the Office of Registrar is responsible to bring out the Annual Report of PRESS IN INDIA. The

data is compiled on the basis of annual statement submitted by publishers of the newspapers

giving the details of their circulation.

The statistical manpower in the Office of Registrar of Newspaper of India is given below:

Professional : 0

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 2

Total : 2


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23. MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

Under the Constitution of India, Labour is a subject in the Concurrent List where both

the Central and the State Governments are competent to enact legislations subject to certain

matters being reserved for the Centre. The Ministry of Labour has the mandate to protect and

safeguard the interests of workers in general and those constituting the deprived and marginal

classes of the society in particular with due regard to creation of a healthy work environment

for higher production and productivity. The Ministry seeks to achieve this objective through

enactment and enforcement of labour laws and implementation Schemes / Programmes relating

to welfare, health, safety and social security of the workers.

In the Ministry of Labour and Employment (Main Secretariat), there are two main

sections viz. Wage Cell, and Economic and Statistical Analysis (Labor Bureau) Section, which

are dealing with statistical activities.

The Wage Cell is mainly responsible for Examination of the Employments for adding

them to the Schedule of the Minimum Wages Act, Fixation / revision of Rates of Minimum

Wages for scheduled employments in the central sphere, Enhancement of Wage Ceiling under

the Payment of Wages Act, Fixation / Revision of National Floor Level Minimum Wages, and

Collection / compilation of rates of minimum wages of scheduled employments received from

States / UTs, etc. The Economic and Statistical Analysis (Labour Bureau) is the nodal section in

the Ministry looking after all the administrative / financial matters of the Labour Bureau besides

reviewing and monitoring the statistical work done by the Labour Bureau.

Statistical manpower in position in the Ministry (Main Secretariat) is given below:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 3

Total : 9

23.00.01 Directorate General of Employment & Training

The Directorate General of Employment and Training under the Ministry of Labour and

Employment is mainly responsible for framing overall policies, norms and standards for

vocational training; diversifying, updating and expanding training facilities in terms of craftsmen

and crafts instructors’ training; organizing and conducting specialized training and research at

the specially established training Institutes; implementing regulating and increasing the scope

of training of apprentices under the Apprentices Act, 1961; organizing vocational training

programmes for women; providing vocational guidance and employment counselling;

conducting regular training programmes for Employment Officers and develop staff training

material for use by the Employment Service personnel, and ; collecting/disseminating

information concerning employment and unemployment and prescribe uniform reporting

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Statistical activities/ matters in the DGE&T are carried out under the overall guidance

of Deputy Director General (Employment) which inter-alia includes formulation of National

Employment Policy; Collection, Compilation and Publication of statistics relating to Employment

Exchanges; Census of Central Government employees; Vocational guidance & Carrier

Counseling; Organisation of training programme for Employment Officers. Data on employment

in public and private sectors are collected statutorily as part of the Employment Market

Information (EMI) Programme. Educational and occupational profiles are also compiled

annually.

Statistical Unit in DGE&T is responsible for compilation of employment exchange

statistics, and; employment-unemployment and labour-force statistics. The employment data

in the organised sector is collected under the Employment Market Information Programme by

the Employment Market Information (EMI) Unit. The information is collected in Employment

Return(ER-I) on quarterly basis under the provision of Employment Exchanges (Compulsory

Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959. The Act covers all establishments in the Private Sector

where ordinarily 25 or more persons are employed to work for remuneration and all

establishments in the Public Sector. The functions of EMI unit include scrutiny of Employment

Statements received from States/ U.Ts; tabulation of data on Employment by different branches

of Public/ Private Sectors by Industry division and sex etc. relating to previous and current

quarters on the basis of EMI statements received from States/ U.Ts; preparation of Appendices,

Derivative tables etc. for incorporation in the Employment Reviews; collection of data/

information from other Ministries/ Departments about the progress achieved in the

implementation of various Employment Generation Schemes; etc.

The Survey and Study Unit of DGE&T is responsible for collection, analysis and

presentation of statistics on establishments engaged in apprenticeship training, intake capacity,

output and their employability in the labour market; preparation of the profile of the Central

Government Employees working in various parts of the country, and; collection, analysis and

presentation of job opportunities available for persons possessing diploma, degree and post

graduate qualifications in various branches of engineering, technology, agriculture, medicine,

natural sciences, social sciences and teaching, etc.

The following publications are brought out by DGE&T:

Annual:

Ø Employment Exchange Statistics

Ø Employment Review

Ø Trade Apprenticeship Training in India

Ø Census of Central Government Employees

Ø Bulletin on Job Opportunities in India

Quarterly:

Ø Quick Estimates of Employment.

Ø Employment Review.


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Statistical manpower in DGE&T is given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 30

Total : 33

23.00.02 Directorate General Factory Advice Service and Labour Institute, Mumbai

This Directorate was established in the year 1945. It is an attached office of the Ministry

of Labour and Employment serving as a technical arm to assist the ministry in formulation of

national policies on occupational safety and health in factories and docks.

There is a statistical cell in the Directorate which is responsible for collection, analysis

and interpretation of statistical data received from Chief Inspectors of Factories on a limited

scale in respect of factory sector, studying trend of accident, employment etc. and analysis of

data in the fields of industrial and occupational health; preparation of standard reference note,

material related to occupational safety and health in factories and docks for annual report and

outcome budget, etc.

The Statistical Cell of DGFAS&LI brings out a publication viz. “Standard Reference Note

of DGFAS&LI” on annual basis.

Statistical manpower in position in the Directorate General Factory Advice Service and

Labour Institute is given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 1

Total : 4

23.00.03 Labour Bureau

The Labour Bureau, Shimla was set up in 1946 for collection of comprehensive labour

statistics in the context of formulation of labour policy, by merging the Directorate of Cost of

Living, set up in 1941 for compilation and maintenance of cost of living index number, with it.

The organization is headed by a Director General and has two main wings at Chandigarh

and at Shimla. It has four Regional Offices, each at Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Kolkata and Chennai

with a Sub-Regional Office in Mumbai. The work relating to different aspects of Labour Statistics

is attended to by its offices in Chandigarh and Shimla. The Regional Offices mainly attend to

the work of price audit so as to ensure collection of reliable price data used for constructing

the Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers. Training programmes aimed at

improving the quality of data sent by Govt. agencies under the various Labour enactments are

also organized by the Regional Offices.

The main statistical activities of the Labour Bureau can broadly be categorized under


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five groups: Construction and Maintenance of Index numbers; Conducting Surveys and Studies

on various categories & facets of labour; Collection of data through a number of statutory and

voluntary returns; Bringing out Publications, and; Imparting Training.

The publications brought out by Labour Bureau are given below:

Monthly:

Ø Indian Labour Journal

Annual:

Ø Indian Labour Year Book

Ø Indian Labour Statistics

Ø Pocket Book of Labour Statistics

Ø Statistics of Factories

Ø Report on the Working of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948

Ø Review of Industrial Disputes in India

Ø Labour Statistics under the A.S.I.

Ø Statistics on Closure, Retrenchments and Lay-offs

Biennial:

Ø Trade Unions in India

Ad hoc:

Ø Statistical Profile on Women Labour

Ø Digest of Indian Labour Research

Statistical manpower in the Bureau in position is given below:

Professional : 14

Intermediate : 48

Primary : 201

Total : 263

23.00.04 Director General of Mines Safety, Dhanbad

Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) has its headquarters at Dhanbad with six

zonal offices. The Directorate is mainly responsible for exercising preventive as well as

educational influence over the mining industry by drafting appropriate legislation and setting

standards through a variety of promotional initiatives and awareness programmes. It also

promotes the concept of ‘self-regulation’ as well as ‘workers’ participation in safety

management’ and, with changing scenario, attempts to superimpose its traditional role of

seeking compliance by legal sanctions and work prohibition optimally with advisory and other

safety promotional initiatives, thereby creating an environment in which safety is given due

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The Statistics Division of the Directorate, comprising of three Sections viz. Coal Section,

Non-coal Section, and Accident Section deal with the statistical activities of the Directorate.

Compilation, processing and publication of data received from mine managements for both

coal and non-coal; maintenance, processing and finalization of data of different kind of accidents

in mines and its publication, as received through statutory returns, is the responsibility of

Accident Section under the Statistics Division.

There is one more section in Hqrs. Viz. “Study of Mine Accidents and Development of

Mines Safety Information System” wherein some statistical analysis on accident-prone mines

and on prime causes of accidents is carried out with the assistance of statistical staff. Besides,

there are two field offices, one at Hyderabad and other at Sitarampur, where collection and

compilation of accident statistics is done by statistical officers.

Following publications are brought by the Statistics Division:

Annual:

Ø Statistics of Mines in India Vol. I (Coal)

Ø Statistics of Mines in India Vol II (Non-Coal)

Statistical manpower in position in the Directorate and its field offices is given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 11

Primary : 7

Total : 21


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24. MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

Ministry of Law And Justice comprises of the Legislative Department and the Department

of Legal Affairs. The Department of Legal Affairs is concerned with advising the various Ministries

of the Central Government while the Legislative Department is concerned with drafting of

principal legislation for the Central Government.

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25. MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

The Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) came into being in May

2007 by merger of Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries and Ministry of Small Scale Industries.

The Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 seeks to facilitate the

Development of these enterprises as also enhance their competitiveness. It provides the first

ever legal framework for recognition of the concept of “enterprises which comprises both

manufacturing and service entities”. The Ministry is responsible for all matters relating to Micro,

Small and Medium Enterprises. It designs and implements policies and programmes through

its field organizations and attached offices for promotion and growth of MSME sector.

The Statistics & Data Bank Division of the Ministry is responsible for implementation of

the scheme “Collection of Statistics of MSEs” objective of which is to collect, compile and

disseminate statistical data / information on various economic parameters like number of

enterprises, employment and production of micro and small enterprises sector. Conduct of

census, sample surveys, collection of data for index of Industrial Production (IIP) and updation

of frame are also covered under the scheme which is being implemented from 5th Five Year

Plan, launched in 1975. The scheme is implemented through State Directorates of Industries

and their District Industries Centres. During the 8th Plan (1992-97) a component of

computerization of 138 DICs and 25 SDIs was added to automate the functions of SDIs/DICs for

better utilization of staff, decentralized data analysis and dissemination etc. Since October

2006, the coverage of the scheme has been extended to collect data on the Micro, Small and

Medium Enterprises.

Under the Promotional Package for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), “Collection

of Statistics and Information on MSMEs through quinquennial census and annual surveys” has

been envisaged. Recognizing the enormous contribution of the MSE to generate economic

growth, providing widely dispersed employment, equitable regional development as also their

locational flexibility and adaptability in the face of competition, a scheme for “Strengthening

the database for MSME Sector” has been announced by the Government with the objective of

collection of statistics on MSMEs through annual sample surveys and quinquennial census;

collection of data on women owned and managed enterprises, and; collection of data on exports

made by MSMEs. During 2007-08, 4th All-India Census of registered and sample survey of

unregistered micro, small and medium enterprises was taken up.

Statistical Staff in position in the Ministry is as follows:

Professional : 6

Intermediate : 48

Primary : 100

Total : 154

25.00.01 Khadi & Village Industries Commission

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is a statutory body established by

an Act of Parliament. The KVIC is responsible for planning, promotion, organization and


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implementation of programs for the development of Khadi and other village industries in the

rural areas in coordination with other agencies engaged in rural development, wherever

necessary. Its functions also comprise building up of a reserve of raw materials and implements

for supply to producers, creation of common service facilities for processing of raw materials

as semi-finished goods and provisions of facilities for marketing of KVI products apart from

organization of training of artisans engaged in these industries and encouragement of

cooperative efforts amongst them. The KVIC is also charged with the responsibility of

encouraging and promoting research in the production techniques and equipment employed

in the Khadi and Village Industries sector.

The Directorate of Economic Research at the Central Office, Khadi and Village Industries

Commission (KVIC), Mumbai deals with collection, compilation and analysis of KVIC data for

periodical and annual reports; conduct of special studies and surveys; and monitoring and

evaluation of the performance of khadi and village industries.

Statistical manpower in position in the Khadi and Village Industries Commission is as

given below:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 21

Primary : 24

Total : 49

25.00.02 Coir Board

Coir Board is a statutory body established by the Government of India under a legislation

enacted by the Parliament namely Coir Industry Act 1953 for the promotion and development

of Coir Industry in India as a whole. The main functions of the Board as laid down in Act are to

promote the development, under the control of the Central Government, of the Coir Industry

including promoting exports of coir yarn and coir products; regulating the production of husks,

coir yarn and coir products by registering coir spindles and looms for manufacturing coir products

as also manufacturers of coir products, licensing exporters of coir yarn and coir products and

taking such other appropriate steps as may be prescribed; undertaking, assisting or encouraging

scientific, technological and economic research and maintaining and assisting in the

maintenance of research institutes; collecting statistics from manufacturers of, and dealers

in, coir products and from such other persons as may be prescribed, on any matter relating to

the coir industry; fixing grade standards and arranging when necessary for inspection of coir

fibre, coir yarn and coir products; improving the marketing of coconut husk, coir fibre, coir

yarn and coir products in India and elsewhere and preventing unfair competition; promoting

cooperative organisation among producers of husks, coir fibre and coir yarn and manufacturers

of coir products; ensuring remunerative returns to producers of husks, coir fibre and coir yarn

and manufacturers of coir products; etc.

Collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of statistical data pertaining to coir

industry are one of the major functions assigned to the Coir Board under the coir industry act


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1953. Coir Board compiles data on production of coir and coir products, domestic consumption,

export and other trade related information. Other statistical activities of the Board include

conducting Coir Industry Survey; Market Analysis; Setting up of Trade Information Centre;

Documentation of coir related information, and data collection.

There is no statistical staff in the Board.


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26. MINISTRY OF MINES

The Ministry of Mines is responsible for survey and exploration of all minerals, (other

than natural gas and petroleum) for mining and metallurgy of non-ferrous metals like aluminum,

copper, zinc, lead, gold, nickel etc. and for administration of the Mines and Minerals

(Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (MMDR Act) in respect of all mines and minerals

other than coal and lignite. . The Ministry of Mines has jurisdiction over Geological Survey of

India and Indian Bureau of Mines, both of which are subordinate offices.

26.00.01 Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM)

The Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) established in 1948, is mainly responsible for

conservation of minerals, scientific development of mineral resources and protection of

environment in mines other than coal, petroleum & natural gas, atomic minerals and minor

minerals. Headed by the Controller General, IBM has six technical divisions with its head quarters

at Nagpur. There is a Modern Mineral Processing Laboratory and Pilot Plant, established with

the assistance of United Nations Development Programme at Nagpur. IBM has 3 Zonal Offices,

12 Regional Offices and 2 Sub-Regional Offices, 2 Regional Ore Dressing Laboratories and Pilot

Plants spread over the Country.

The Mining and Mineral Statistics Division works as the Nation’s Data Bank on Mines

and Minerals. Administration of Rule 45 of the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules

(MCDR) 1988 is one of the important functions of this Division. Under the said rule, monthly,

annual and explosives returns are furnished by about 3000 mines in pre-specified formats.

These returns contain data on employment, wages, quantity and value of inputs, rent, royalty,

depreciation, taxes, cess, reserves, exploration, mineral rejects, chemical constituents, feed

grades, mining methods, mining operations, mining leases, mining machinery, explosives,

production, stocks, dispatches, sale prices and cost of production. Data on external trade are

received from the Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics. Besides, this

Division is also engaged in collection and compilation of monthly prices of minerals for Wholesale

Price Index, LME and domestic prices of non-ferrous metals and production details of fuel

minerals, minor minerals and ferrous and non-ferrous metals from different sources. IBM

collects labour data from Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) Dhanbad.

Following publications are brought out by the IBM:

Ø Monthly Statistics of Mineral Production

Ø Statistical Profiles of Minerals

Ø Indian Mineral Industry at a Glance (Pocket Book)

Ø Indian Minerals Year Book:

Statistical manpower in Indian Bureau of Mines is given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 21

Primary : 4

Total : 27


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26.00.02 Geological Survey of India

Geological Survey of India (GSI) is one of the oldest surveys in the World, and is a

premier organization of Earth Science Studies in the sub-continent with a strength of 2100

geoscientists and technical professionals. It has a network of Offices located in all the states of

India. It is responsible for preparing and updating geological, geophysical and geochemical

maps of the country and its offshore area; exploring and assessing mineral and energy resources

of the country and its offshore areas; systematically exploring the shallow subsurface domain

of the country and developing/maintaining national drill core libraries and documentation

centres; conducting research in earth sciences and promoting application of the new knowledge

for effecting management of the earth system and its resources; creating and maintaining

earth science data basis and acting as the national repository of earth science data generated

by various organizations and disseminating these in public domain for development, educational

and societal needs; etc.

There is no statistical section/division in the organization. The information and data

generated by GSI on its various projects and mineral resources is published through reports.

Statistical data of the country’s mineral resources is generated by statistical section of IBM.


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27. MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS

The Ministry of Minority Affairs was created in January, 2006 as a nodal agency for

formulation of policies and programmes and overall co-ordination of all activities for the welfare

of minorities. The Ministry is responsible for overall policy, planning, coordination, evaluation

and review of the regulatory and development programmes of the minority communities; all

matters relating to Minority Communities except matters relating to law and order; policy

initiatives for protection of minorities and their security in consultation with other Central

Government Ministries and State Government; work relating to the evacuee Wakf properties

under the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (31 of 1950) (since repealed);

representation of the Anglo-Indian Community; protection and preservation of non-Muslim

shrines in Pakistan and Muslim shrines in India in terms of the Pant-Mirza Agreement of 1955,

in consultation with the Ministry of External Affairs; matters pertaining to the socio-economic,

cultural and educational status of minorities; minority organizations, including the Maulana

Azad Education Foundation; etc. .

The Ministry has broadly three divisions namely; Policy and planning Division,

Institutions & Media Division and Establishment /Wakf Division. The above activities have been

distributed among these Divisions. The Ministry though do not have any specific section dealing

with statistical work but the statistical data is collected, compiled and analyzed for the purpose

of examination of the proposals for release of funds to the State governments by the Ministry.

With regard to wakf properties, the State Wakf Boards are required to survey the Wakf properties

under their jurisdiction. The collected data is compiled for planning and policy purposes.

However, there is no statistical manpower for handling the statistical work.


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28. MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources (DNES) was created in the then

Ministry of Energy in 1982. Later it was made a full-fledged Ministry in 1992. In October 2006,

the Ministry was re-christened as the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The Ministry is

the nodal Ministry of the Government of India for all matters relating to new and renewable

energy. The broad aim of the Ministry is to develop and deploy new and renewable energy for

supplementing the energy requirements of the country.

Though there is no statistical set-up in this Ministry. However, the basic data on

implementation of various programmes/schemes of the Ministry is being compiled by the

existing normal sanctioned staff of the different programme divisions. The basic data being

compiled includes year-wise and month wise number of systems installed, their capacities,

location, etc., and is obtained from various stakeholders i.e. State Government Departments/

Nodal agencies, NGOs, Private Enterprises, etc.


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29. MINISTRY OF OVERSEAS INDIAN AFFAIRS

The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs was established in May 2004 with the objective

of bestowing mainstream attention to overseas Indians all over the world. There are an

estimated 25 million overseas Indians in 110 countries. The Ministry endeavors to look after

the interest of this huge and diverse community and to engage them with India. It deals with

all matters relating to Overseas Indians comprising Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) and Non-

Resident Indians (NRIs); Promotion of investment by Overseas Indians in India including

innovative investments and policy initiatives consistent with the overall Government policies

particularly in areas such as exclusive Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for Overseas Indians; All

emigration under the Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983) from India to overseas countries and

the return of emigrants; Policy regarding employment assistance to PIO/NRIs excluding

reservations in Government service; Collection and dissemination of information concerning

admission of NRI/PIO students to various educational, technical and cultural institutions in

India wherever discretionary quota for NRI/PIO students exists, in consultation with the Ministry

of Human Resource Development and the Ministry of Culture; etc.

There is no statistical set up in the Ministry, being a small Ministry. However, statistics

relating to Emigration like distribution of annual labour outflows from India by destination;

suspension of emigration clearance; State-wise number of workers granted emigration clearance

etc. and other aspects is maintained/ compiled by the secretariat staff of the Ministry.


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30. MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj was created in May 2004 to deal with all matters relating

of Panchayati Raj and Panchayati Raj Institutions. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is responsible

for the work of advocacy for, and monitoring of the implementation of Constitution (73rd

Amendment) Act, 1992 and the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas)

Act, 1996 to ensure that the State Panchayati Raj Acts adhere to the provisions of the above

mentioned two Acts and are implemented in letter and spirit. The Ministry is required to ensure

that the States/UTs hold timely elections, set up State Finance Commissions and implement

their recommendations, constitute District Planning Committees and empower them suitably

to ensure grass-root level planning to feed into State and Central level Planning effectively.

One major task of the Ministry is to ensure that the State Governments/UT Administrations

devolve funds, functions and functionaries on the Panchayati Raj Institutions in the spirit of

the Constitutional provisions, and formulate/implement an Action Plan for seeing PRIs to emerge

as “Institutional of Local-Self Government” securing economic development and social justice

in their respective areas. Capacity Building of elected representatives and officials of PRIs as

well as functionaries involved in the Rural Development Programmes is an important activity

of the Ministry to enforce economic development and social justice at the local level.

There is no statistical set-up in the Ministry.


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31. MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS

Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs serves as an interface between the two houses of the

Parliament and the Government in respect of Government Business in Parliament.

There is no formal statistical set up in the Ministry, the statistical activities of the Ministry

being limited to compilation & updation of various information relating to functioning of

Parliament.

The Ministry brings out a yearly statistical publication viz. “Statistical Hand Book”.

There is no statistical staff in the Ministry.


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32. MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS

The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is the coordinating agency

of the Central Government in personnel matters, specially on issues concerning recruitment,

training, career development, staff welfare as well as the post retirement dispensation. The

Ministry is also concerned with the process of responsive people-oriented modern

administration. The Ministry comprises three Departments viz. Department of Personnel and

Training; Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, and; Department of Administrative

Reforms & Public Grievances.

There is no formal statistical set-up in the Ministry and its Departments.


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33. MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is entrusted with the responsibility of

exploration and production of oil and natural gas, their refining, distribution and marketing,

import, export, and conservation of petroleum products and Liquefied Natural Gas. The

marketing of petroleum products in India is handled by the four public sector oil companies

viz: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bharat Petroleum

Corporation Ltd. and Bharat Petroleum Ltd.

All the Statistical functions of the Ministry are carried out by the Economic Division

which is headed by an Economic Adviser, assisted by a Joint Director and a Research Officer.

Economics and Statistics Section is responsible for maintaining various databases on Petroleum

& Natural Gas Sector; bringing out statistical publications; providing necessary statistical support

on the Oil Sector to various Central Ministries/ State Departments and international agencies;

monitoring production performance of Oil & Natural Gas Sector; supplying data on production

of petroleum products to Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation for preparation

of “Index of Industrial Production” etc.

Following statistical publications are brought out by the Ministry of Petroleum and

Natural Gas:

Annual

Ø Indian Petroleum & Natural Gas Statistics;

Ø Basic Statistics on Indian Petroleum & Natural Gas

Statistical manpower in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is given below:

Professional : 0

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 1

Total : 3


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34. MINISTRY OF POWER

The Ministry of Power is concerned with perspective planning, policy formulation,

processing of projects for investment decision, monitoring of the implementation of power

projects, training and manpower development and the administration and enactment of

legislation in regard to thermal, hydro power generation, transmission and distribution. The

Ministry also administers the Electricity Act, 2003, the Energy Conservation Act , 2001 and

undertake such amendments to these Acts, as may be necessary from time to time, in conformity

with the Government’s policy objectives. In all technical and economic matters, Ministry of

Power is assisted by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).

34.00.01 Central Electricity Authority

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is a Statutory Body constituted under the

erstwhile Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948, hereinafter replaced by the Electricity Act, 2003. The

office of the CEA is an “Attached Office” of the Ministry of Power. It is headed by a Chairman,

who is also ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India, and comprises six full time Members

of the CEA of the rank of ex-officio Additional Secretary to the Government of India. The CEA is

responsible for the technical coordination and supervision of programmes and is also entrusted

with a number of statutory functions. The CEA is supposed to advise the Central Government

on the matters relating to the national electricity policy and formulation of short-term and

perspective plans; specify the technical standards for construction of electrical plants, electric

lines and connectivity to the grid; specify the safety requirements for construction, operation

and maintenance of electrical plants and electric lines; specify the Grid standards for operation

and maintenance of transmission lines; promote and assist in the timely completion of schemes

and projects for improving and augmenting the electricity system; Collect and record the data

concerning the generation, transmission, trading, distribution and utilization of electricity and

carry out studies relating to cost, efficiency, competitiveness and such like matters; etc.

There is no statistical Division or Section in the authority, and collection, compilation

and publication of statistical data is done by the Coordination Division. Following statistical

publications are brought out by the Central Electricity Authority:

Ø Electricity Tariff & Duty and Average Rates of Electricity Supply in India

Ø All India Electricity Statistics, General Review

Ø Public Electricity Supply – All India Statistics – General Review

Ø Electricity Tariff & Duty and Average Rates of Electricity Supply in India

Statistical manpower in position in the central Electricity Authority is given below:

Professional : 0

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 5

Total : 6


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35. MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

The Ministry of Railways is endowed with the responsibility of managing and maintaining

the Indian Railways and rail transport in India. The Railway Board, which is the apex body of

the Indian Railways, reports to this Ministry. The Railway Ministry of India looks after the

maintenance and management of the 16 Zonal Railways and the Metro Railways in India. The

production units, central organizations related to railways in India and some central training

Institutes related to the functions and productions of rails, also fall under the Railway Ministry

of India.

The statistical set-up of the Indian Railways functions at two levels – Ministry of Railways

(Railway Board) and the Zonal Railways. The Directorate of Statistics & Economics in the Ministry

of Railways (Railway Board) co-ordinates and analyse the data for the Railway system, based

on the information received from the Statistical Organisations of the Zonal Railways. This helps

the different departments and the higher management to assess their individual performance,

identify weaknesses and take remedial measures to improve the output. The Directorate of

Statistics & Economics at Railway Board consists of two wings, viz. Statistical Wing, and Cost

Analysis Wing.

The Statistics & Economics Directorate at Railway Board is headed by the Financial

Commissioner (FC), while those on the Zonal Railways are headed by the Financial Adviser and

Chief Accounts Officers (FA&CAO). The broad objectives of the Statistical Organisation of the

Indian Railways are to act as the information bank of Indian Railways; to provide analyzed

statistical data to top management for evaluating Railways performance vis-à-vis targets set;

to aid and evaluate norms for utilization of assets; to evolve formats and related instructions

for compilation and the submission of statistical data by Statistical organizations on the Zonal

Railways and other agencies and to guide them in professional matters; to bring about awareness

in improving productivity of resources through statistical comparison and to inculcate cost

consciousness with a view to achieving cost control/reduction; to provide data for fixing realistic

tariff flows; and to provide data for project appraisals and taking management decisions on

capital investments.

Following statistical publications are brought out by the Statistical & Economic

Directorate of Railway Board:

Annual:

Ø Annual Statistical Statements

Ø Annual Reports and Accounts

Ø Year Book


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Statistical manpower in position in the Ministry of Railways is given below:

Office Professional Intermediate Primary Total

Railway Board 8 14 39 61

Central Railway 3 25 46 74

Eastern Railway 2 22 147 171

East Central Railway 1 8 11 20

East Coast Railway 0 4 5 9

Northern Railway 2 51 147 200

North Central Railway 1 11 13 25

North Eastern Railway 1 29 81 111

North East Frontier Railway 1 123 14 138

North Western Railway 1 19 37 57

Southern Railway 1 30 57 88

South Central Railway 2 29 65 96

South Eastern Railway 1 52 123 176

South East Central Railway 2 10 21 33

South Western Railway 0 7 7 14

Western Railway 2 54 119 175

West Central Railway 1 3 2 6

Total 29 491 934 1454


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36. MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT & HIGHWAYS

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is entrusted with the task of formulating

and administering, in consultation with other Central Ministries/Departments, State

Governments/UT Administrations, organisations and individuals, policies for Road Transport,

National Highways and Transport Research with a view to increasing the mobility and efficiency

of the road transport system in the country. The Ministry has two wings viz. Roads wing and

Transport wing.

The Roads Wing deals with development and maintenance of National Highway in the

country and is mainly responsible for planning, development and maintenance of National

Highways in the country; extending technical and financial support to State Governments for

the development of state roads and the roads of inter-state connectivity and economic

importance, and; evolving standard specifications for roads and bridges in the country.

The Transport Wing deals with matter relating to Road Transport, and its main

responsibilities are to prepare motor vehicle legislation; administer the Motor Vehicles Act,

1988; taxation of motor vehicles; compulsory insurance of motor vehicles; to administer the

Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950 and promote Transport co-operatives in the field of

motor transport; evolve road safety standards in the form of a National Policy on Road Safety

and by preparing and implementing the Annual Road Safety Plan; collect, compile and analyze

road accident statistics and take steps for developing a Road Safety Culture in the country by

involving the members of public and organizing various awareness campaigns, and; to provide

grants-in-aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in accordance with the laid down guidelines.

The Transport Research Wing (TRW) renders necessary data support to the Ministry for

policy planning, implementation and monitoring purposes. The TRW also provides data support

to Ministry of Shipping. It is the nodal agency for collection, compilation and dissemination of

data on roads, road transport, motor vehicles, ports (maritime cargo volume and composition),

shipping including ship building and ship repair and Inland waterways. Besides, it undertakes

research studies pertaining to various aspects and issues related to transport sector from time

to time. The Wing was established in 1963, and is at present headed by Adviser (Transport

Research) and is assisted by officers at different levels. It collects data on the above mentioned

sectors from the concerned source agencies viz. State Transport Departments, Road Transport

Undertakings, Irrigation Department, Public Works Departments and Maritime Boards; National

Highways Authority of India; Major ports; Directorate General of Shipping and Ship building

companies; Inland Waterways Authority of India and Central Inland Water Transport

Corporation; etc. The data is disseminated to the users through various publications. TRW

also monitors the monthly performance of ports and also monitors the progress of Port projects

under implementation. It provides data to various organizations of Central and State

Governments.

The publications concerning Road Transport and Highways brought out by the Transport

Research wing are given below:


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Annual:

Ø Road Transport Year Book

Ø Review of the Performance of SRTUs

Ø Road Accidents in India

Ø Basic Roads Statistics

Statistical manpower in Transport Research Wing is given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 8

Total : 13


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37. MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The present Ministry of Rural Development was initially set up as a Department in 1974

under the then Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Since then, it has undergone various changes

with creation of different departments within it. At present, the Ministry has been acting as a

catalyst effecting the change in rural areas through the implementation of wide spectrum of

programmes which are aimed at poverty alleviation, employment generation, infrastructure

development and social security. This Ministry’s main objective is to alleviate rural poverty

and ensure improved quality of life for the rural population especially those below the poverty

line. These objectives are achieved through formulation, development and implementation of

programmes relating to various spheres of rural life and activities, from income generation to

environmental replenishment. The Ministry presently consists of the three Departments viz;

Department of Rural Development, Department of Land Resources and Department of Drinking

Water Supply.

37.01 Department of Drinking Water Supply

The provision of Drinking Water Supply and extension of Sanitation facilities to the rural

poor are the main components of the activities of the Department of Drinking Water Supply. The

major programmes of the Drinking Water Supply Department are The Swajaldhara, the

Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) and the Total Sanitation Programme (TSP).

37.02 Department of Land Resources

Department of Land Resources implements schemes to increase the bio-mass

production by developing wastelands in the country. Department also provides the support

services and other quality inputs such as land reforms, betterment of revenue system and land

records. It also undertakes development of desert areas and drought prone areas in the country.

The major programmes of the Department of Land Resources are Drought Prone Area

Programme (DPAP) The Desert Development Programme (DDP) the Integrated Wasteland

Development Programme (IWDP) and Land Reforms (LR). These aim at increasing the soil and

moisture conservation and productivity of the wasteland of the degraded lands thereby increase

the income of the people.

There is no Statistical Division or Section functioning in the Department. However, the

Monitoring and Evaluation Wing of the Department performs statistical functions. The details

of the physical and financial progress of various programmes are received from programme

implementing agencies viz. DRDA/Zilla Parishad. The data in respect of area sanctioned, funds

released, area treated, area brought under Afforestation, agro-forestry, sand dune stabilization,

pasture development, man days generated etc. for each project are compiled by the department

for effective monitoring of these programmes. The mid-term evaluation of programmes is

undertaken by the panel of independent evaluators for taking corrective action, if required for

the proper implementation of the schemes. The Department also commissions impact

assessment studies of Watershed programmes with reputed national/international institutes

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Further, a centrally sponsored scheme “National Land Records Modernization

Programme (NLRMP)” is being implemented with the ultimate goal to achieve conclusive titles

with title guarantee, by replacing the current presumptive title system in the country. The

information in respect of computer centers at district and sub-division level, construction of

modern record rooms, data entry work undertaken, digitization of maps, etc. received from

the State/UT Government are compiled for better monitoring of these schemes.

37.03 Department of Rural Development

The Department of Rural Development implements schemes for generation of self

employment and wage employment, provision of housing and minor irrigation assets to rural

poor, social assistance to the destitute and Rural Roads. Apart from this, the Department

provides the support services and other quality inputs such as assistance for strengthening of

DRDA Administration, Panchayati raj institutions, training & research, human resource

development, development of voluntary action etc. for the proper implementation of the

programmes. The major programmes of the Department of Rural Development are Pradhan

Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, (PMGSY), Rural Housing (RH) Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana

(SGRY) and Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY).

While the statistical matters relating to specific programmes are handled in the

respective Divisions with the help of statistical staff posted in the Divisions, statistical matters

pertaining to the whole Ministry and those requiring coordination are primarily handled in the

Monitoring Division of the Ministry. The Monitoring Division is responsible for continuous

monitoring of the Rural Development Programmes and their evaluation. The tools used by the

Ministry for monitoring include on-line monitoring of the monthly/quarterly progress reports

of the programmes, data base management, meetings of Performance Review Committee,

State Nodal Officers meetings, National Level Monitors (retired civil and defence personnel

who make field visits for monitoring), Area Officers visits and Vigilance & Monitoring Committee

meetings. Besides, Information Technology related matters are also handled in the Monitoring

Division. Adviser (Stats.), posted in the Monitoring Division, is responsible for coordinating on

all matters with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and for giving

statistical advice to other Divisions.

Statistical manpower in position in the Departments of Ministry is given below:

Department Professional Intermediate Primary Total

i. Department of Drinking

Water Supply 1 0 6 7

ii. Department of Land

Resources 0 0 0 0

iii. Department of Rural

Development 2 2 7 11

Total 3 2 13 18


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37.03.01 National Institute of Rural Development(NIRD)

The National Institute of Rural Development is mandated to examine and analyse

the factors contributing to the improvement of economic and social well-being of

people in rural areas; to facilitate the rural development efforts with particular emphasis

and focus on the rural poor by improving the knowledge, skills and attitudes of rural

development officials and non-officials through organising training, workshops and

seminars, and; to coordinate and compile the Annual Rural Development Statistics (RDS)

and release the same by the end of May every year.

The Institute carry out its mandate through 10 centres, namely:

i. Centre for Agrarian Studies and Disaster Mitigation (CAS&DM)

ii. Centre for Equity and Social Development (CESD)

iii. Centre for Gender Studies (CGS)

iv. Centre for Human resource Development (CHRD)

v. Centre for Information Technology and Quantitative Techniques (CITQT)

vi. Centre for Media and Rural Documentation (CMRD)

vii. Centre for Planning , Monitoring and Evaluation (CPME)

viii. Centre for Panchayati Raj (CPR)

ix. Centre for Self Employment and Rural Enterprises (CSERE)

x. Centre for Rural Credit and Development Banking (CRCDB)

While there is no statistical Centre/Division in this Institute, statistical activities of various

centres like coordinating & compiling the Annual Rural Development Statistics and organisation

of training courses for Statistical officers are performed by Faculty posted in different centres.

The Institute brings out a Statistical Publication on annual basis viz. “Rural Development

Statistics”.

Statistical manpower in position in the National Institute of Rural Development is given

below:

Professional : 5

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 5


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38. MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The Ministry of Science and Technology is charged with formulation and administration

of the rules and regulations and laws relating to science and technology in India. The Ministry

consists of three Departments namely; Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science

and Technology, and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

38.01 Department of Bio-Technology (DBT)

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) was set up in 1986 under the Ministry of Science

and Technology for the development in the field of modern biology and biotechnology in India.

The Department of Bio-Technology is required to promote large scale use of Biotechnology,

support R&D and manufacturing in Biology, promote University and Industry Interaction,

identify and Set up Centers of Excellence for R&D, serve as Nodal Point for specific International

Collaborations, establish infrastructure facilities to support R&D and production, evolve Bio

Safety Guidelines, manufacture and application of cell based vaccines, and Serve as nodal point

for the collection and dissemination of information relating to biotechnology.

The statistical activities of the Department are undertaken under the advice of a

Statistical Adviser. The statistical activities performed by the Adviser are to create a system for

monitoring projects received, processed and outcomes generated; to develop a strategy and

software for submission of proposals on line; to provide statistical support to clinical trial

committee; to create approach for monitoring Biotech Industry performance, and; monitor

the implementation of biotech strategy.

Statistical manpower in the Department of Bi-Technology is given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1

38.02 Department of Science and Technology

Department of Science & Technology (DST) was established in May 1971, with the

objective of promoting new areas of Science & Technology and to play the role of a Nodal

department for organizing, coordination and promoting S&T activities in the country. The

Department is mainly responsible for formulating policies relating to Science and Technology;

promoting new areas of Science & Technology with special emphasis on emerging areas;

futurology; coordination and integration of areas of Science & Technology having cross-sectoral

linkages in which a number of institutions and departments have interest and capabilities;

Undertaking or financially sponsoring scientific and technological surveys, research design and

development, where necessary; supporting and Grants-in-aid to Scientific Research Institutions,

Scientific Associations and Bodies; Matters concerning domestic technology particularly the

promotion of ventures involving the commercialization of such technology other than those


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under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Promotion of Science and

Technology at the State, district, and village levels for grass-roots development through State

Science and Technology Councils and other mechanisms, etc.

The National Science and Technology Management Information System (NSTMIS), a

division of Department of Science and Technology (DST) has been entrusted with the task of

building the information base on a continuous basis on resources devoted to scientific and

technological activities for policy planning in the country. The main functions of the Division

are to collect data on resources deployed for Science and Technology, in general, and R&D in

particular. It undertakes biennial surveys to compile data for more than 4000 scientific and

technological Institutions in the country, undertakes a number of adhoc surveys and studies

and also provides information on various parameters concerning science and technology to

National and International bodies.

The statistical manpower in the Department of Science and Technology is given below:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 3

Total : 8

38.02.01 National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO)

The National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO) in the Department of

Science and Technology is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Science and Technology, mainly

responsible for Compilation of the National Atlas of India; preparation of the National Atlas

maps in regional languages; preparation of thematic maps based on research studies on

environmental and related aspects and their impact on social and economic development;

Geographical Researchers, Remote Sensing & GISD, Digital Image Processing; etc. The

Organisation has a statistical section, headed by Senior Statistical Officer. It mainly deals with

collection, compilation and analysis of statistical data for National Atlas and Thematic Mapping.

Statistical Manpower in the Organization is given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 4

Primary : 0

Total : 6

38.03 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR)

The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) under the Ministry of Science

and Technology was set up in January 1985 to carry out the activities relating to promotion,

development, utilization and transfer of indigenous technology. The Department endeavors to

promote R&D by the industries, support a larger cross section of small and medium industrial

units to develop state-of-the-art globally competitive technologies of high commercial potential,


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catalyze faster commercialization of lab-scale R&D, enhance the share of technology intensive

exports in overall exports, strengthen industrial consultancy & technology management

capabilities and establish user friendly information network to facilitate scientific and industrial

research in the country. It also provides a link between scientific laboratories and industrial

establishments for transfer of technologies through National Research Development

Corporation (NRDC) and facilitates investment in R&D through Central Electronic Limited (CEL).

The objectives are achieved through programmes and institutions like Technology Promotion,

Development and Utilization (TPDU) Programmes; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

(CSIR); consultancy Development Centre (CDC); National Research Development Corporation

(NRDC); and Central Electronics Limited (CEL).

The Department does not have any statistical set up as such.

38.03.01 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is an autonomous R&D Organization

under Department of Science & Industrial Research having multi-disciplinary, multi-locational

setup comprising 37 national laboratories and 37 outreach Centres. Over the years, CSIR has

matured into a performance driven and knowledge centric organization. It has been a proactive

generator of technologies for industrial growth, S&T anchor for strategic sector, technology

hub for societal welfare and science base for progression of knowledge base. Few of CSIR

laboratories have personnel with statistical background to provide services like resource

planning and statistical analysis of different R&D projects.

The statistical manpower in position in CSIR is as follow:

Professional : 28

Intermediate : 19

Primary : 8

Total : 55


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39. MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

The Ministry of Shipping encompasses within its fold shipping and ports sectors which

include shipbuilding and ship-repair, major ports, national waterways, and inland water

transport. The Ministry has been entrusted with the responsibility to formulate policies and

programmes on these subjects and their implementation.

The Transport Research Wing (TRW), under administrative control of Department of

Road Transport and Highways, renders necessary data support to Ministry of Shipping for policy

planning, implementation and monitoring purposes. It is the nodal agency for collection,

compilation and dissemination of data on roads, road transport, motor vehicles, ports (maritime

cargo volume and composition), shipping including ship building and ship repair and Inland

waterways. The Transport Research Wing was established in 1963, and is at present headed by

Adviser (Transport Research) who is assisted by officers at different levels. It collects data on

the shipping sector from the concerned source agencies viz. Maritime Boards; Major ports;

Directorate General of Shipping and Ship building companies; Inland Waterways Authority of

India and Central Inland Water Transport Corporation; etc. The data is disseminated to the

users through various publications. The TRW also monitors the monthly performance of ports

and also monitors the progress of Port projects under implementation. It provides data to

various organizations of Central and State Governments.

The publications concerning Shipping Sector brought out by Transport Research Wing

are given below:

Annual:

Ø Basic Port Statistics

Ø Statistics of India’s Ship Building and Ship – Repairing Industry

Ø Statistics on Inland Water Transport

Biannual

Ø Update on Indian Port Sector

Statistical manpower in Transport Research Wing which caters to both the Ministry of

Shipping, and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 8

Total : 13

39.00.01 Chennai Port Trust

Chennai Port, the third oldest port among the 12 major ports, is an emerging hub port

in the East Coast of India. Maritime trade started way back in 1639 on the sea shore Chennai.


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In tune with the international maritime developments, the port developed the Outer Harbour,

named Bharathi Dock for handling Petroleum in 1972 and for mechanized handling of Iron Ore

in 1974. In 1983, the port heralded the country’s first dedicated container terminal facility.

The Chennai port is one among the major ports having Terminal Shunting Yard and running

their own Railway operations inside the harbour on the East Coast. The port is having railway

lines running up to 68 kms. The port, with three Docks, 23 berths and draft ranging from 12m

to 16.5m has become a hub port for Containers, Cars and Project Cargo in the East Coast.

The planning and Research Cell of the Port, created in 1964, and reorganised/upgraded

in 1988 assist the administration to provide various statistical data as and when required by

the Board / Ministry. The unit is headed by a Deputy Director. Presently the Unit is functioning

as an independent Unit under Traffic Department headed by the Traffic Manager and monitors

the port performance and compilation of trade statistics

Statistical manpower in position in the Chennai Port Trust is given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 4

Primary : 2

Total : 9

39.00.02 Cochin Port Trust

Cochin is the fastest growing maritime gateway to peninsular India. Cochin Port Trust is

an all-weather natural Port, located strategically close to the busiest international sea routes

from the Gulf to Singapore and Europe to the Far East circuits. The Port is spearheading fast-

track maritime and industrial growth in the large geographical spread of its economically vibrant

hinterland. The logistically sensitive Port is emerging as the most preferred investment

destination for maritime commerce.

The Planning and Research Division, under the administrative control of the Secretary

of the Cochin Port Trust, who is assisted by Dy. Director, Statistical & Research Officers is the

statistical set up of the Port Trust. The division is responsible to provide data/information related

to various functions of the port like labour productivity, shipping, traffic throughout, equipment

utilization, etc. to the management and other Port related agencies at various time intervals

for taking appropriate policy decisions.

Statistical manpower in position in Cochin Port Trust is given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 6

Primary : 4

Total : 12

39.00.03 Mormugao Port Trust

Mormugao Port Trust, GOA is one of the oldest ports on the west coast of India, with a


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fine natural harbour. The Port was declared a Major Port in December 1963. The Port is the

premier iron ore exporting Port of India with an annual throughput of around 27.33 million

tonnes of iron ore traffic. Though ore is the predominant cargo, there has been a steady increase

in liquid bulk and general cargo traffic ever since its joining the ranks of the Major Ports of

India. Excellent facilities, high productivity, streamlined administration and a dedicated

workforce all go towards making this Port one of the most efficient Port in Indian subcontinent.

In the Mormugao Port, a Planning Cell was started as far back as 1964 which was

functioning under the supervision of a Director of Planning (Traffic) entrusted with the functions

of streamlining the system of collection of statistics and starting of regular analysis of data;

economic analysis of port developmental proposals; traffic forecasting; hinterland studies, study

of port rating problem; gathering of various economic information for planning purposes; etc.

The work load of Planning Cell was reviewed and it was suggested to establish an independent

Planning & Research Department in order to enable it to perform its functions efficiently. The

Planning & Research Department was created in the Port on 21.2.1970. Now the port has a

full-fledged department of Planning & Research under a head of the Department as prescribed

in the Major Port Trust Act, 1963. The broad functions entrusted to this department are planning

and formulation of annual and five year plans; appraisal, evaluation and monitoring the progress

of plan schemes, etc.; evolving and implementing management information systems, including

maintenance of statistical data banks, for retrieval of information; conducting research studies

on port operators, economies and management; analysis of traffic, forecasting and trade

promotion, including publicity and public relations; work study covering method study, job

evaluation, organizational analysis, work measurement, layout planning, etc; manpower

planning and development; development and running in-house training center for all

categories/level of employees; maintenance of records of the Organisation on systematic basis,

retrieving records on demand from the concerned department and maintenance of Micro

filming of records, etc.

The Planning & Research Department has since been converted into a full fledged

Management Services Department by constituting a separate Operational and Performance

Audit Branch (OPA) within the department and re-named as “Department of Planning &

Management Services”. Statistical Section functions within this department.

The Statistical manpower in position in the Mormugao Port Trust is given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 2

Primary : 8

Total : 11

39.00.04 Mumbai Port Trust

The Port of Mumbai has long been the principal gateway of India. It lies midway on the

West coast of India, and is gifted with a natural deep-water harbour of 400 sq. Kms. protected


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by mainland of Konkan on its east and island of Mumbai on its west. For decades, Mumbai Port

remained India’s premier port. Even today, with the development of other ports in the

neighborhood, it caters to about 11 % of the total sea borne traffic handled by Major Ports of

the country in terms of volume. It handles about 20 % of POL traffic and 21 % of General traffic

handled by Major Ports of India.

The Planning & Research Department of the Port under a Director is mainly responsible

for coordination, formulation and monitoring of plan schemes, as also statistical analysis &

investigation, etc.

Statistical manpower position in the Mumbai Port Trust is given below:

Professional : 5

Intermediate : 9

Primary : 24

Total : 38

39.00.05 Paradip Port Trust

The Port of Paradip was commissioned in the year 1966 for handling of iron ore cargo.

Over the years, the port has grown up and at present it handles multifarious cargo. Paradip

Port is one of the major Ports of India serving the Eastern and Central parts of the country. Its

hinterland extends to the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, West Bengal, Madhya

Pradesh and Bihar. The Port mainly deals with bulk cargo apart from other clean cargoes.

The Statistical Section of the Port performs the functions of collection, classification,

analysis and presentation of statistical data. Beside, the Section also conducts in-house training

programmes at Paradip Port.

Statistical manpower in position in the Paradip Port Trust is given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 3

Total : 5

39.00.06 Visakhapatnam Port Trust

The port of Vishakhapatnam opened to sea going vessels during the year 1933 passed

through different administrative jurisdiction of the Government of India and transferred to the

Port Trust during the year 1964 under major port trusts Act 1963. The port plays a crucial role

as the middle point distribution base for Southern, Eastern, Central and Northern States of

India.

The Research and Planning Department, established on 27.1.1970 with the objective

of assisting the management in decision making process by providing economic advice and

necessary data, to ensure operation of the Port on a rational economic basis is the statistical


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set up of the Port. The Department is one among the 10 departments of the port and functions

under the control of the deputy chairman and chairman. The department is responsible for

research studies, planning and management of information system. The Management

Information System of the Research and Planning department is responsible for collection,

collation, compilation and maintenance of traffic statistics, shipping statistics, equipment

statistics and labour productivity statistics and other statistics relating to employment, accident,

strikes and stoppages, etc; Providing data for the developmental projects in preparation of

Feasibility reports; providing data to the publications such as: Major Ports Profile (IPA

publications), Basic Port Statistics( TRW publications, MOSRT&H); Port View, and performance

budget is also the responsibility of Management Information System of Department.

The following statistical publications are brought out by the Research and Planning

Department:

Monthly:

Ø Port View

Annual:

Ø Port View

Ø Administration Report

Ø Capital Budget

Statistical manpower in the Visakhapatnam Port Trust including is given below:

Professional : 5

Intermediate : 7

Primary : 13

Total : 25*

*: Includes personnel of Information Technology Division.


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40. MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice

& empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalized section of the society viz, Scheduled Caste,

Backward Classes, Persons with Disabilities, Aged Persons, and victims of Drug Abuse etc. Basic

objective of the policies, programmes, law and institution of the Indian welfare system is to

bring the target groups into the main stream of development by making them self-reliant.

There is no statistical set-up in the Ministry except the Planning, Research, Evaluation

& Monitoring Division which sponsors research & evaluation studies to assess the impact of

the schemes & programmes implemented by the Ministry, besides collection & compilation of

statistical data on various aspects. The division is headed by a Dy. Director General who is a

professional statistician.

The only statistical publication brought out by the Ministry of Social Justice and

Empowerment, is “Handbook of Social Welfare Statistics”.


Professional: 1

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 0

Total 1


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41. MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) consists of National

Statistical Organization (NSO) and the Programme Implementation (PI) Wing, and is headed by

a Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation. At

the executive level, it is headed by Secretary to Government of India, who is also the Chief

Statistician of India. The NSO consists of two offices viz. Central Statistical Office (CSO) and

National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The CSO and NSSO are both headed by respective Director

Generals. The PI Wing of the Ministry, presently headed by Principal Adviser in the rank of

Secretary to Government of India, consists of three Divisions viz. Member of Parliament Local

Area Development Division, Infrastructure and Project Monitoring Division, and Twenty Point

Programme Division. Besides NSO and PI Wing, the Ministry has an administrative wing

responsible for establishment, housekeeping, vigilance matters and cadre management of

Indian Statistical Service and Subordinate Statistical Service.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the nodal Ministry in

Government of India for planning and facilitating the integrated development of the statistical

system in the country. As a nodal Ministry on all statistical matters, it is responsible for:

(i) laying down and maintaining norms and standards in the field of official

statistics, evolving concepts, definitions, classifications and methodologies of

data collection, processing of data and release of results;

(ii) coordinating statistical activities amongst Ministries / Departments of the

Government of India as well as with the State agencies involved in statistical

activities with a view to improving the quality of data; identifying gaps in data

availability or duplication of statistical work and suggesting remedial measures;

and reducing time-lag in bringing out various statistics ;

(iii) advising the Ministries / Departments of the Government of India as also State

Governments on statistical matters, including methodology and analysis of data;

(iv) disseminating national-level statistical information to Government, semi-

Government , private data users / agencies and international agencies;

(v) improving Official / Applied Statistics in the country by supporting research

and training ;

(vi) designing and conducting nation-wide sample surveys on various socio-

economic aspects and related activities to strengthen the socio-economic data

base of the country, and release of results;

(vii) undertaking methodological studies and pilot surveys for evolving better

sampling techniques and estimation procedure etc;

(viii) participating and contributing in all international initiatives for development of

statistical systems;

(ix) coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the SAARC Social Charter;

(x) undertaking statistical tracking of Millennium Development Goals for India;

(xi) notifying the Data Dissemination Policy, and creating a Data Warehouse of

Official Stratistics for easy access to the published as well as unpublished


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validated data from one source;

(xii) developing and maintaining a National Data Bank of Socio-Religious categories;

(xiii) designing and conducting training programmes and internships in official

statistics and statistical methodologies for officers of Central and State

Governments, International Agencies and others;

(xiv) developing the National Academy of Statistical Administration (NASA) into a

premier institute for training and research in official statistics;

(xv) ensuring that the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata functions in accordance

with the provisions of Indian Statistical Institute Act,1999(57 of 1999);

(xvi) managing Indian Statistical Service(ISS) and Subordinate Statistical Service(SSS),

two cadres of professional statisticians;

(xvii) administering the Collection of Statistics Act,2008(7 of 2009);

Besides functioning as a Nodal Ministry on all statistical matters, the Ministry also

compiles certain important data sets at national level like preparing National Accounts as per

the UN System of National Accounts and its dissemination as per Special Data Dissemination

Standards; preparing and releasing Consumer Price Index Numbers for Urban and Rural Sectors;

preparing and releasing Index of Industrial Production (IIP); conducting Annual Survey of

Industries (ASI), and; conducting Economic Census every fifth year and releasing their results.

The Ministry is also responsible for implementing the Member of Parliament Local

Area Development Scheme (MPLADS); monitoring of the central projects of Rs. 20 crores and

above; monitoring the performance of Infrastructure Sectors; and monitoring the Twenty Point

Programme of the Government.

Through a Government of India Resolution of 1st June 2005, Government has set up a

Commission, namely, the National Statistical Commission (NSC) to serve as a nodal and

empowered body for all core statistical activities of the country, evolve, monitor and enforce

statistical priorities and standards and to ensure statistical co-ordination among the different

agencies involved. The NSC consists of a part-time Chairperson; four part-time Members one

each in the fields of Economic Statistics, Social & Environment Statistics, Census & Surveys,

and National Accounts & State Statistical System, and; Secretary, Planning Commission as

Members. The Chief Statistician of India serves as the Secretary of the NSC.

The Central Statistical Office (CSO) consists of four Divisions, namely, the National

Accounts Division (NAD), the Economic Statistics Division (ESD), Social Statistics Division (SSD),

and the Training Division. The Headquarter of the CSO is located at New Delhi with Industrial

Statistics Wing of ESD at Kolkata. The Central Statistical Office is responsible for coordination

of statistical activities in the country, and evolving and maintaining statistical standards. Its

activities include National Income Accounting; conduct of Annual Survey of Industries, Economic

Censuses and its follow up surveys, compilation of Index of Industrial Production, as well as

Consumer price Indices for Urban Non-Manual employees, Human Development Statistics,

Gender Statistics, imparting training of Official Statistics, work relating to Development of

Statistics in the States and Union Territories; dissemination of statistical information, work


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relating to trade, energy, construction, and environment statistics, revision of National Industrial

Classification, etc.

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) functions under the overall directions of a

Steering Committee with requisite independence and autonomy in the matter of collection,

processing and publication of NSS data. In additional to the non-official Chairman, the Steering

Committee is composed of academicians, data users from Central and State Government

departments and senior officers of the Ministry. The Director General and Chief Executive

Officer (DG&CEO) of NSSO is also the Member-Secretary of the Steering Committee. The NSSO

consists of four divisions viz. Survey Design and Research Division (SDRD) located at Kolkata;

Field Operations Division (FOD) having more than 170 offices spread throughout the length

and breadth of the country with Hqrs. at Delhi and Faridabad; Data Processing Division (DPD)

with Hqrs at Kolkata and Centres at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Girdih, Kolkata and Nagpur,

and; Coordination & Publication Division (CPD) at Delhi. The National Sample Survey Office

(NSSO) carries out socio-economic surveys, undertakes field work for the Annual Survey of

Industrial and follow-up surveys of Economic Census, sample checks on area enumeration and

crop estimation surveys and prepares the urban frames useful in drawing of urban samples,

besides collection of price data from rural and urban sectors. The major activities of the NSSO

pertain to Survey Design, Field Operations, Processing of data collected and releasing of the

results based on surveys.

The Computer Centre, located at Delhi is headed by a Deputy Director General. The

Computer Centre handles the data processing jobs of the MOSPI, provides training to statistical

personnel on software, maintains the MOSPI’s website and the National Data Warehouse of

Official Statistics.

Besides various Divisions of CSO and NSSO, there is one Division viz. Coordination and

Administration Division (CAD) which functions independently in the Ministry and responsible

for all matters connected with Plan Coordination for the Ministry, Coordination with Central

and State Statistical Organisations, Celebration of Statistics Day, Coordination of Performance

Budget of the Ministry, Bringing out various Publications, Coordination of Annual Action Plan

of the Ministry, etc.

The MOSPI is also responsible for the India Statistical Institute and ensuring its

functioning in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Statistical Institute Act 1959.

The Ministry brings out a large number of regular and ad-hoc publications, a few

important being as follows:

Quinquennial:

Ø Input-Output Transaction Tables

Annual:

Ø National Accounts Statistics


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Ø Statistical Pocket Book of India

Ø Statistical Abstract of India

Ø India in Figures

Ø Compendium of Environment Statistics

Ø Selected Socio-Economic Statistics of India

Ø Millennium Development Goals – India Country Report

Ø Results of Annual Survey of India

Ø Sarvekshana

Ø Results of Various Surveys Conducted by NSSO

Ø Consolidated Results of Crop Estimation Surveys on Principal Crops

Monthly:

Ø Monthly Abstract of Statistics

Ad-hoc:

Ø National Accounts Statistics – Back Series

Ø National Accounts Statistics — Sources and methods

Ø State-wise Estimates of Value of Output from Agriculture and

Livestock

Ø Women and Men in India

Ø SAARC Social Charter — India Country Report

Ø Elderly in India — Profile and Programmes

Ø Youth in India – Profile and Programmes

Ø Statistical System in India

Ø Directory of Sample Surveys in India

Ø Energy Statistics

Ø Reports on Economic Census

Statistical manpower in position in the Ministry and its offices is as follows:

Division Professional Intermediate Primary Total

A. Statistics Wing 223 1256 1595 3074

Central Statistical

Organisation 75 66 57 198

National Sample

Organisation 148 1190 1538 2876

B. Programme

Implementation Wing 4 0 0 4

TOTAL (A & B) 227 1256 1595 3078


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42. MINISTRY OF STEEL

The Ministry of Steel is responsible for co-ordination and planning of the growth and

development of Iron and Steel Industry in the country both in the Public and Private Sectors;

formulation of policies in respect of production, pricing, distribution, import and export of iron

& steel, ferro alloys and refractories; and development of input industries relating to iron ore,

manganese ore, chrome ore and refractories etc. , required mainly by the steel industry.

The Joint Plant Committee (JPC) established by the Government of India in 1964, for

formulating guidelines for production, allocation, pricing and distribution of iron and steel

materials in the country, has emerged as a facilitator in the form of an information service

provider for Indian steel industry, being empowered to obtain from producers, processors,

dealers and consumers of iron and steel such information and data as it may require in

discharging the functions specified under Iron & Steel (Control) Order 1956 as well as for

maintaining a comprehensive data base in respect of any matter including production,

movement and prices. With the closure of the Office of Development Commissioner for Iron &

Steel (DCI&S) in May 2003, JPC came to be entrusted with the task of collection of data of the

Secondary Steel Producers as well, which was being performed till then by the O/o DCI&S.

The JPC has its headquarter at Kolkata with four regional offices in New Delhi, Kolkata,

Mumbai and Chennai and the Economic Research Unit at New Delhi, serving as a wing of JPC

to carry out techno-economic studies. JPC is the only institution in the country, which is officially

empowered to collect data on the Indian iron and steel industry, resulting in the creation and

maintenance of the only basic databank on this industry. JPC is responsible for collection,

compilation, estimation and dissemination data on production, capacity and stock of main

producers: SAIL plants, Tata Steel, RINL and Essar Steel, JSW Steel, Ispat Industries and other

Producers covering the segments: Pig iron, Sponge iron, Induction, Furnace, Electric Arc Furnace,

Re-rolling, HR, CR, Galavanized/Color coated, Tin Plate, Wire drawing, etc; domestic Market

Prices l from four metro cities, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai & New Delhi; import and export data

(EDI/Non-EDI from Customs; consumption data; FOB and CIF Prices & Landed cost of select

steel items, production data of Raw Materials for Steel and prices of raw materials for Steel.

The JPC is also responsible for conducting segment specific surveys for updating the database

and finalization of population/frame.

Following statistical publications are brought out by the JPC:

Ø JPC Bulletin on Iron & Steel

Ø Performance Review: Iron & Steel

Ø Annual Statistics

Ø Survey Reports

Statistical manpower in JPC Kolkata Headquarters and its four regional offices associated

with statistical activities, both directly and indirectly is given below:


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Office Statistical Manpower

Professional Intermediates Primary Total

JPC Headquarters, Kolkata 5 16 0 21

JPC Regional Offices

Kolkata 1 3 0 4

New Delhi 1* 4 0 5

Mumbai 1 3 0 4

Chennai 1 2 0 3

Total 9 28 0 37

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43. MINISTRY OF TEXTILES

The Ministry of Textiles is responsible for policy formulation, planning, development,

export promotion and trade regulation in respect of the textile sector. The developmental

activities of the Ministry are oriented towards making adequate quantities of raw material

available to all sectors of the textile industry and augmenting the production of fabrics at

reasonable prices from the organized and decentralized sectors of the industry. Towards this

objective, the Ministry lays down guidelines for a planned and harmonious growth of various

sectors of the industry. Special emphasis is given to the development of handlooms in view of

its large employment potential. The Ministry monitors the techno-economic status of the

industry and provides the requisite policy framework for modernization and rehabilitation.

The Ministry coordinates the activities of Textiles Research Associations and lends financial

support to them for undertaking research and development.

In the rapid changing scenario of trade liberalization, the textile industry needs more

effective planning and strategy to face the competition in international markets. Thus current

information on production, designs and fashion and other related market and trade

developments and its analysis are of immense significance to production planners and policy

makers. The Economic Research and Market Intelligence Unit (ERMIU) collect and disseminate

information on above aspects for the benefit of trade and industry. The main unit is located in

the Office of Textile Commissioner at Mumbai and two satellite units are located in the Ministry

of Textiles, New Delhi and in the Office of the Textile Commissioner, Mumbai. The main functions

of the Unit are to provide information related with textiles to Government, Industry and Trade;

organize data/information available at various organizations in India and abroad related with

textiles; conduct spot studies/surveys/census to study market intelligence; create a Data Bank

of all such Data/information, and; analyze interpret and forecast trends.

43.00.01 Office of Development Commissioner for Handicrafts

The Office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) is an attached office of

Ministry of Textiles. It is a central nodal office to work for socio-economic upliftment of the

artisans and supplement the efforts of the State Governments for promotion and development

of handicrafts within the country and abroad. The responsibilities of the office are overall

development and growth of the Handicrafts Sector, to strive for socio-economic upliftment of

artisans, to developing entrepreneurship among the artisans, promoting community enterprise,

expanding reach of the handicrafts in domestic and global markets, providing better tools,

technologies and designs to artisans, using IT tools for furthering the artisans interests, and

take up census/surveys useful to the sector and the Government for policy planning.

There is no particular section for Statistical Activities in this office. However, data

pertaining to Census of handicrafts artisans, employment, production are maintained by P&R

Division of this office and data pertaining to Export Statistics is maintained by Export Division

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The Statistical staff in the office of Development Commissioner is given below:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 0

Total 1

43.00.02 Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms

Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms was set up as an attached

office in November, 1975 under the Ministry of Commerce. At present it functions under the

Ministry of Textiles. Twenty Five Weavers’ Service Centres in 20 States are functioning under

the administrative control of Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms as Field

Units to look after the needs of the handloom weavers like their skill up gradation, design

development etc. The Office of Development Commissioner for Handlooms has one Chief

Enforcement Office with its regional offices at Chennai and Ahmadabad, to protect handloom

sector from the clutches of the power loom sector through the implementation of Handlooms

(Reservation of articles for production) Act, 1985.

There is no statistical set up in the organization.

43.00.03 Office of the Jute Commissioner

The Jute Commissioner looks after orderly development and promotion of the jute

industry in India. He has been discharging both regulatory and developmental functions. This

not only includes jute mills, but covers right from raw jute marketing up to the finishing stage

of jute goods production, including development of machineries and accessories used in jute

manufacturing units. The primary functions of the office are to advise the government on all

matters pertaining to raw jute, jute industry, modernization and diversification programme in

both organized and decentralized sectors, development of jute machinery industry, etc.; to

promote orderly exports through operation of a voluntary scheme of jute goods export targets

and formulation of policy measures for achievement of target set; to generate greater consumer-

awareness about jute products and promote the markets for non-conventional and diversified

jute products jointly with connected organizations etc.

The Statistical Section compile, tabulate, analyse and interpret the daily prices of all types

of jute goods for both ready and forward deliveries on the basis of daily quotations received

from G.T.A. Prices relating to Hy. Cess, A Twill, DWflower bag and B.Twill of all grades are received

from Gunny traders association is tabulated on a daily basis. Apart from this, Registers are

maintained Millwise and Gradewise.

The Statistical staff in position in the office of the Jute Commissioner is given below:

Professional : -

Intermediate : 1

Primary : -

Total : 1


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42.00.04 Office of the Textile Commissioner

The office of the Textile Commissioner was established in 1943 during the Second World

War period for arranging the supply of cloth to the defence forces as well as civilian population.

After the end of World War II, the Textile Commissioner was given the regulatory function of

administering the prices, distribution and control of certain varieties of cloth meant for civilian

consumption the post war conditions of scarcity. Over a period of time, the office has assumed

a developmental role and has contributed towards modernization and holistic all round growth

of diversified and broad based textile industry. This office formulates and implements various

schemes of the Govt. in an industry friendly manner. The major strength of this office lies in

very strong, technical and economic wing manned by professionally qualified and experienced

officers. In addition, this office has wide reach through its 8 regional offices and 14 power loom

service centers located in major textile clusters. The regional offices in coordination with head

office are providing requisite technical support to the industry particularly decentralized sector

of the industry in their endeavor to meet successfully the challenges of the globalised economy.

The Economic & Statistics Division, Technical Division, Cotton Division and Industry

Consumer Service Division are mainly engaged in statistical activities. Out of these, the

Economics & Statistics Division is the main provider of all statistics relating to Textile Industry

and Trade, to all the Govt. Departments, organization, industry and trade association etc. over

the entire country. This division is mainly engaged in collection, compilation, analysis and

dissemination of such data relating to textile industry and reviewing the current trends in

production, distribution, availability and stocks and prices of all textiles.

Statistical personnel in position in the Office of Textile Commissioner are furnished

below:

Professional : 9

Intermediate : 14

Primary : 37

Total : 60

43.00.05 Central Silk Board

Central Silk Board established in 1949 as a statutory body under Govt. of India, is a

national organization for overall development of sericulture and silk industry. Its headquarters

is located in Bangalore. CSB is statutorily committed to promote the development of the silk

industry by all appropriate measures, and for this purpose, in particular undertake, assist and

encourage scientific, technological and economic research in the silk sector; devise means to

improve cultivation of mulberry plantations; produce and distribute healthy silkworm seed;

improve the quality and production of raw silk and the marketing of silk; and advise and report

to Govt. of India on all matters relating to the development of the raw silk industry, including

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44. MINISTRY OF TOURISM

The Ministry of Tourism is the nodal agency for the formulation of national policies and

programmes and for the co-ordination of activities of various Central Government Agencies,

State Governments/UTs and the Private Sector for the development and promotion of tourism

in the country. This Ministry has field formation of 20 offices within the country and 13 offices

abroad and one sub-ordinate office/project i.e. Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering

(IISM)/ Gulmarg Winter Sports Project. The overseas offices are primarily responsible for tourism

promotion and marketing in their respective areas and the field offices in India are responsible

for providing information service to tourists and to monitor the progress of field projects. The

Ministry has under its charge a public sector undertaking, the India Tourism Development

Corporation and autonomous institutions viz. Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel

Management (IITTM), National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology

(NCHMCT), and the Institutes of Hotel Management.

The Market Research Division (MR Division) of the Ministry is responsible for collection,

compilation, analysis and dissemination of information on various aspects of tourism in India.

The Division regularly compiles and releases statistics relating to foreign tourist arrivals, domestic

& foreign tourist visits to different States of the country, occupancy rates of approved hotels

etc. Periodical surveys are also undertaken to assess the profile of the international and domestic

tourists such as their expenditure pattern, preferences, satisfaction level, etc. and to assess

the availability and adequacy of infrastructural facilities at various tourist destinations in the

country. The MR Division also undertakes studies and the work of preparation of master plans,

perspective plans and detailed project reports for development of tourism in the country. To

estimate the economic impact of tourism in the nation’s economy, a Tourism Satellite Account

(TSA) has also been developed by the Division.

The MR Division performs its various functions with the help of statistical personnel at

various levels. The Division is headed by an Additional Director General, supported by one

Joint Director General (NFSG level), two Deputy Directors (STS level) and 4 Research Officers

(JTS level) and Data Processing Assistants and Data Entry Operators.

Two annual publications, brought out by the Market Research division, are:

Ø India Tourism Statistics

Ø India Tourism Statistics at a Glance

Statistical manpower in the Ministry in position is given below:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 4

Primary : 8

Total : 16


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45. MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs was constituted in October 1999 with the objective of

providing more focused attention on the integrated socio-economic development of the

Scheduled Tribes (STs), in a coordinated and planned manner. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is

the nodal Ministry for the overall policy, planning and coordination of programmes for

development of STs. To this end, the Ministry undertakes activities, which include: social security

and social insurance to the Scheduled Tribes; Tribal Welfare: tribal welfare planning, project

formulation, research, evaluation, statistics and training; promotion and development of

voluntary efforts on tribal welfare; scholarship to students belonging to such tribes;

development of Scheduled Tribes and all matters including legislation relating to the rights of

forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes on forest lands.

The Statistics Division of the Ministry is responsible for collection, compilation and

analysis of statistical data covering the subjects under the jurisdiction of the Ministry. Issues

relating to 20 Point Programme and Migration are also dealt with by this Division, which is

headed by an SAG level officer.

The only statistical Publication brought out by the Division is “Annual Report on Tribal

Affairs”.

Statistical manpower in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs is given below:

Professional : 4

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 4


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46. MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The Ministry of Urban Development is the apex authority of Government of India at

the national level to formulate policies, sponsor and support programmes, coordinate the

activities of various Central Ministries, State Governments and other nodal authorities and

monitor the programmes concerning all the issues of urban development and housing in the

country. The Ministry is responsible for the properties of the Union, whether lands or buildings

except those belonging to Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Railways and the Department

of Atomic Energy and the Department of Space; all Central/UTs Government Civil Works and

Buildings; Horticulture Operations; Central Public Works Organisation; Issue of lease or

conveyance deeds in respect of Government built properties and conversion of lease deeds,

allotment of additional strips of land and correctional areas adjoining such properties; planning

and coordination of urban transport systems, fixing of maximum and minimum rates and fares

for rail-based urban transport systems other than those funded by the Indian Railways; Town

and Country Planning; Delhi Development Authorit; Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal

Undertaking of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi; etc.

Town and Country Planning Organsiation (TCPO) is the technical arm of the Ministry of

Urban Development. The Joint Secretary (Urban Development) of the Ministry is the ex-officio

Chairman of the Organisation. The Chief Planner is the head of the Organisation who is assisted

by a multi-disciplinary team of Town Planners, Regional Planners, Architects, Engineers and

Social Scientists. TCPO is a multi-disciplinary Organisation. Based on multifarious activities it

performs, TCPO is structured into eight Divisions namely; (i) Environmental & Regional Planning

Division, (2) Metropolitan & Union Territories Division, (3) Special Projects Division, (4) Urban

Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns, (5) Urban & Regional

Information System Division, (6) Industrial and Economic Planning Division, (7) Social Economic

and Monitoring Division and (8) Policy Planning Division.

The major functions of TCPO are appraisal and monitoring of central Sector projects/

programmes; advice to the Ministry of Urban Development, Planning Commission and other

Central Ministries in Urban Development policies and Strategies; technical advice and assistance

to State Town and Country Planning Departments; undertaking applied research in areas of

topical interest; preparation of Manuals and Guides on various aspects of planning and

development; organizing training programmes, conferences and workshops for in-service

planners and officials in the field of urban and regional planning and development; providing

consultancy services in planning projects at various levels; and developing Urban and Regional

Information System.

There is no Statistical Section/Division/unit in TCPO. No statistical personnel are working

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47. MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES

The Ministry of Water Resources is responsible for development, conservation and

management of water as a national resource; and overall national perspective of water planning

and coordination in relation to diverse uses of water. The Ministry has two attached offices i.e.,

Central Water Commission (CWC) and Central Soil and Materials Research Station, and seven

subordinate offices including Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and Central Water & Power

Research Station (CWPRS).

There is no centralized set up of the statistical activities in the Ministry. Statistical units

have been created in different attached/subordinate offices and in different wings of the

Ministry. The activities of these statistical units are confined to the Wings/Offices where they

are functioning. The newly created post of Additional Director General (Statistics) is assigned

to Minor Irrigation Statistics Division and the post of Advisor (Statistics) created in the Central

Water Commission is assigned for development of information system in the Ministry. There

are statistical units functioning in the Ministry in Minor Irrigation Wing, Ganga Wing, Planning

& Policy Wing, Project Wing, Indus Wing and Command Area Development Wing. Statistical

units are also functioning in CGWB, CWPRS and different divisions of CWC. While the Statistical

units in Minor Irrigation Division, Indus Division and P & P Division in the Ministry and CWC,

CGWB and CWPRS are headed by Director, the other units are working under Deputy Director.

In the Ministry, the statistical activities undertaken by different Wings are as under:-

(a) Policy and Planning Division: The statistical personnel deal with the work of annual

plans and coordination.

(b) Indus Division: The MOWR under the Indus Waters Treaty (1960) collects daily data

from 280 hydrological sites on six basins, the Indus, the Jhelam, the Chenab, the Ravi,

the Beas and the Sutluz and supply to Pakistan on monthly basis. A small statistical

unit looks after this job.

(c) Ganga Division: Under the provisions of Indo-Bangladesh joint River Commission, there

is a system of transmission of flood forecasting data on major rivers like the Ganga, the

Teesta, the Brahmaputra and the Barak during the monsoon season from India to

Bangladesh. A small Statistical Cell looks after these activities.

(d) Minor Irrigation Division operates a Centrally Sponsored Plan Scheme “Rationalisation

of Minor Irrigation Statistics (RMIS)”. The main aim of RMIS scheme is to build up a

comprehensive and reliable data base in the Minor Irrigation Sector for future planning.

Under this scheme there is a provision for conduct of Census for Minor Irrigation

Schemes on quinquennial basis. During inter-census period, information is also collected

from the States/Union Territories to keep basic information up to date. For regular

reporting and coordination of activities in respect of statistical data compilation,

Statistical Cells have been created in the nodal Department of States/UTs. These

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Under the RMIS scheme, three Censuses of Minor Irrigation Schemes have been

conducted. The 3rd Minor Irrigation Census was conducted with reference year 2000-01. The

report is available on the Ministry’s website http://mowr.gov.in. The unit level data collected

in the Minor Irrigation Censuses also available with NIC for the users. 4th Minor Irrigation Census

has been launched with reference year 2006-07.

The Statistical Unit of the Minor Irrigation Division of the Ministry of Water Resources

brings out one publication viz., “Report on Census of Minor Irrigation Schemes (quinquennial)”.

The Statistical staff in position in Ministry of Water Resources apart from its attached

and subordinate offices is as under;

Professional : 9

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 0

Total : 10

47.00.01 Central Soil and Materials Research Station

The Central Soil and Materials Research Station (CSMRS), an attached office of the

Ministry of Water Resources, is a premier Institute in the country located at New Delhi which

deals with field and laboratory investigations, basic and applied research on problems in geo-

mechanics, concrete technology, construction materials and associated environment issues,

having direct bearing on the development of irrigation and power in the country and functions

as an adviser and consultant in the above fields to various projects and organizations in India

and abroad.

47.00.02 Central Water Commission

Central Water Commission (CWC) is an attached office of the Ministry of Water

resources. The Commission is charged with the general responsibilities of initiating and

coordinating schemes for control, conservation and utilization of water resources throughout

the country including Flood Control, Irrigation, Navigation, Drinking Water Supply and Water

Power Development. The Commission also undertakes investigation, construction and execution

of any such schemes as required.

The CWC is headed by its Chairman, who is an ex-officio Secretary to the Government

of India. There are three technical wings in CWC, namely, Design and Research, Water Planning

& Projects and River Management. Each of the wings is headed by a Member of the Commission

with the Ex-Officio status of Additional Secretary to the Government of India. The wings consist

of Organisations all of which are headed by Chief Engineers excepting Information System

Organisation (ISO), which is headed by Advisor (Statistics). Each Organisation has the

Directorates and Regional Circles spread across the country. Altogether there are 32

Organisations and 146 Directorates/Circles. Apart from Information System Organisation, there

are four Directorates namely; Economics Directorate, P&M Directorate, River Data Directorate

and Water Management Directorate which are having statistical personnel under the function

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The Information System Organisation(ISO) is the hub of information system in CWC

and caters to the information needs within CWC, and disseminates information on water sector

in general and river water in particular. The ISO maintains information base on water and related

subjects by collecting data from various sources. Data emanating from programmes and

activities of CWC and Ministry of Water Resources are also compiled and maintained by ISO.

Work relating to creation and maintenance of an integrated National databank on Water

Resources is also assigned to ISO. The ISO has three directorates viz. Hydrology Data Directorate,

Information Technology Directorate, and Water Resources Information System Directorate which

mainly performs the functions of maintaining hydrological data for non-classified basins of

India covering data on discharge, sedimentation and water quality; collection, compilation

and computerization of water resources and carrying statistical studies, and; providing

information on water resources to users at national level by linking the State and Central

ministries concerned with augmentation and utilization of water resources.

Other Directorates of CWC involved in statistical activities are Economic Directorate

which is the nodal directorate of CWC for carrying out economic appraisal and analysis of

externally aided irrigation projects; Plant and Machinery Directorate which inter-alia collects/

analyze data on expenditure and employment generation of various categories of personnel

from irrigation projects to work out employment generated per crores of rupees, etc.; River

Data Directorate which compile data on gauge, discharge, sedimentation of water quality of

river water as measured by field observation stations; Water Management Directorate which

monitors storage position of important reservoirs, and; Technical Coordination Directorate which

provides technical support in engineering, information technology and other related aspects

of Central Water Commission.

The following statistical publications are brought out by Central Water Commission:

Annual:

Ø Handbook on Water and Related Information

Ø Water Sector at a Glance

Ø Pricing of Water in Public System in India(once in 5 years)

Ø Financial Aspects of Irrigation Projects in India

Biennial:

Ø Water and Related Statistics

Ø Integrated Hydrological Data Book (Non-classified River Basins)

The Statistical staff in position in various directorates of Central Water Commission is

as under:

Professional : 10

Intermediate : 15

Primary : 19

Total : 44


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47.00.03 Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune

Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune, founded in 1916, is the

premier institution in the country devoted to hydraulic research. The activities of CWPRS

primarily encompass the three sectors of water resources, power and water-borne transport.

The institution advises on a variety of research and development (R&D) aspects pertaining to

river training and flood control, development of river basins and setting up multipurpose

projects, design and testing of turbines and pumps, design of ports and harbours, geophysical

and seismological investigations, foundation and structural engineering and a number of allied

disciplines.

The Statistics Division of the Research Station undertakes both client-sponsored and

basic research studies in the field of hydrology & water resources and also provides statistical

support to other disciplines/ divisions of CWPRS like studies on:

• Flood hydrology

• Rainfall-runoff modelling

• Stream-flow simulation

• Synthetic generation of single/ multi seasonal flows

• Rating curve analysis

• Analysis of multivariate data using correlation and regression

techniques

• Development of stochastic models from empirical data for estimating/

forecasting purposes, etc.

While conducting studies of the nature afore-described, the division uses general purpose

and application software as applicable. Some of the major projects handled by the Statistics

division during the past one decade are given below.

a) Characteristics of monitored flow-data in the Mandleshwar-Rajghat reach of

Narmada river

b) Availability of water in Tapi river in the vicinity of Surat city

c) Water resources management for Krishna-Koyna lift irrigation scheme

d) Estimation of Probable Maximum Flood for Tapi river at Ukai dam site

e) Extreme value analysis of hydrometeorolgical data for the Kudankulam Nuclear

Power Project, and

f) Extreme value analysis of rainfall in the Mithi river basin, Mumbai.

The Statistics division disseminates technical information through reports/ papers/

articles published periodically, as per requirement. During the past one decade, 40 technical

reports/ papers/ articles were published on the basis of various R&D studies conducted during

the period.

The statistical staff in position in the CWPRS is as under;

Professional : 3


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Intermediate : 0

Primary : 1

Total : 4

47.00.04 Central Ground Water Board

The Central Ground Water Board was constituted as the national apex organization in

1970. The main activities of the Board include macro-level hydro-geological investigations,

deep exploratory drilling coupled with remote sensing studies, geophysical studies and pumping

tests to study the subsurface hydro-geological features and nation-wide monitoring of the

behavior of water table and water quality through a network of 15,640 hydrograph stations.

The Central Ground Water Board carries out exploratory drilling aided by geophysical

and remote sensing studies to decipher the potentiality of various geological formations. To

meet the two-fold challenge before the country of increased water demands and reduced in

availability of fresh water, the Central Ground Water Board has promoted the practice of

artificially recharging ground water including rain water harvesting. The Central Ground Water

Board also provides technical know-how for construction of rainwater harvesting structures in

various parts of the country free of cost. The Board regularly publishes scientific reports and

maps for its fruitful utilization by the concerned State Governments and user agencies engaged

in ground water development and management of the country.

There is a Statistical Section in the Board which is mainly responsible for maintaining

and updating of the statistical analysis of data bank on Ground Water. The Statistical Section

brings out the following publications:

Quarterly:

Ø CGWB News Letter

Ad-hoc:

Ø Ground Water Statistics

Ø District-wise Indices of Depth to Water Level in States for 14 Years

Ø Statistical Methods in Hydrology

The statistical staff in position in the Central Ground Water Board is as under:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1


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48. MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

The Department of Women and Child Development was set up in the year 1985 as a

part of the Ministry of Human Resource Development to give the much needed impetus to the

holistic development of women and children. With effect from 30.01.2006, the Department

has been upgraded to a Ministry. The Ministry has 4 autonomous organizations viz. Central

Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB), National Institute

of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) and Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK)

working under its aegis. These organizations are fully funded by the Government of India and

they assist the Ministry in its functions including implementation of programmes/schemes.

The Ministry acts as a nodal Ministry for the advancement of women and children. It formulates

plans, policies and programmes; enacts/ amends legislation; and guides and coordinates the

efforts of both governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the field of

Women and Child Development. Besides playing its nodal role, the Ministry implements certain

innovative programmes for women and children which cover welfare and support services,

training for employment and income generation, awareness generation and gender

sensitization.

With the posting of a Statistical Adviser in February 2006, Statistics Division was created

in M/o Women and Child Development. The statistical activities undertaken by the division

are: compilation of Gender Development Index, Gender empowerment measure; works related

to ‘SAARC Gender Database”; coordination of works related to MDG and SAARC Social Charter;

Activities towards ‘Mainstreaming Time Use Surveys in the Statistical system in India’;

compilation of Child Development Index; Monitoring of Action Plans; Monitoring of Twenty

Point Programme/Other Programmes of Government of India (relating to indicators of WCD);

Enforcing the standardized norms of Statistics, providing technical inputs for statistical data

activities of the Ministry, creation of data base on details of beneficiaries (women and children)

under various schemes implemented by various bureaus of the M/o Women and Child

Development and other organizations in terms of SC/ST/others; performance appraisal of various

schemes vis-à-vis progress shown by the indicators etc; creation and maintenance of data base,

fact sheet on women, child, girl child; statistical publications on Women and Children/national

profile on women and children; etc.

The Ministry brings out the following statistical publications:

Ø A Handbook of Statistical Indicators on Indian Women

Ø Sampark (Quarterly News Letter)

Statistical staff in position in the Ministry is given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 2


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48.00.01 Central Social Welfare Board

The Central Social Welfare Board came into being in an era when welfare services for

the disadvantaged sections of society were not systematised and the welfare infrastructure

was not yet a formal construct, as an interface between the resources of the Government and

the energy and outreach of the voluntary sector. Over the years, the Board has been steadily

evolving into a mature instrument of social change that has its anchor in the changing realities

of society. In order to maintain the topicality of its schemes and programmes and to remain

responsive to the needs of society, the Board has been revamping and redesigning or formulating

programmes that best fulfill emerging requirements. Besides Chairman, the Board has a 55

member General Body and a 15 member Executive Committee. The board brings out two

magazines Samaz Kalyan and Social Welfare.

Statistical staff in position in the Board is given below:

Professional : 2

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 2


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49. MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS

The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports was initially set up as the Department of Sports

in 1982 at the time of organization of the IX Asian Games in New Delhi. Its name was changed

to the Department of Youth affairs & sports during celebration of the International Youth Year,

1985. It became a Ministry in May, 2000. Subsequently, the Ministry has been bifurcated in

Department of Youth Affairs and Department of Sports in April,2008.

49.01 Department of Youth Affairs

The Youth, i.e. those falling within the age group of 15-35 years constitutes nearly 40%

of the total population of India. This group which is the most vibrant and dynamic segment of

the country’s population constitutes potentially its most valuable human resource. To optimally

tap their constructive and creative energies, the Department pursues the twin objectives of

personality building and nation building, i.e. developing the personality of youth and involving

them in various nation-building activities. As most of the issues concerning young people are

the functions of other Ministries/Departments, like Education, Employment & Training, Health

and Family Welfare, etc. the role of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports is to act as a facilitator

and catalytic agent.

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50. DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) came into being in August 1954 and has been

engaged in the development of nuclear power technology, applications of radiation technologies

in the field of agriculture, medicine, industry and basic research. As integrated group of

organizations, the Department comprises five Research Centres, three Industrial Organizations,

five Public Sector Undertakings and three Service Organi9sations. It has two Boards for

promoting and funding extra-mural research in nuclear and allied fields, and mathematics. It

also supports seven institutes of international repute engaged in research in basic sciences,

astronomy, astrophysics, cancer research and education, etc.

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51. DEPARTMENT OF SPACE

Department of Space (DOS) has the primary responsibility for development of Space

Technology and its applications for National Development. In pursuance of this objective, the

Department has developed two operational systems viz. Indian National Satellite (INSAT) for

Satellite Communication applications and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) for Natural

Resource Management applications. These systems are used by various Ministries/Departments

of Central and State Governments and VOs/NGOs for various development purposes.

In view of the nature of responsibilities of the department, the Department has no

direct role in collection of statistical data and it also has no statistical set up.


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52. PLANNING COMMISSION

The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 in pursuance of declared objectives

of the Government to promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people by efficient

exploitation of the resources of the country, increasing production and offering opportunities

to all for employment in the service of the community. The Planning Commission was charged

with the responsibility of making assessment of all resources of the country, augmenting

deficient resources, formulating plans for the most effective and balanced utilisation of resources

and determining priorities. The Prime Minister is the Chairman of the Planning Commission,

which works under the overall guidance of the National Development Council. The Deputy

Chairman and the full time Members of the Commission, as a composite body, provide advice

and guidance to the subject Divisions for the formulation of Five Year Plans, Annual Plans,

State Plans, Monitoring Plan Programmes, Projects and Schemes. The Planning Commission

functions through several Divisions, each headed by a Senior Officer.

52.00.01 Labor Employment and Manpower Division

The Labor, Employment and Manpower Division of the Planning Commission is

responsible for Analytical and Estimation Work, Employment Strategy, Labor and Manpower

Policy, Plan schemes for Labor and Labor Welfare and Special Employment, Labor Policy, etc.

Major statistical activities of the Division include analysis of data and trends in participation

rates, labor force/work force, unemployment etc. from Census and NSSO; estimation of labor

force employment and unemployment by various characteristics; estimation of status of

employment; estimation of employment elasticity; estimation of sectoral employment &

projection; trend analysis in wages and in GDP; etc.

The Division does not bring out any statistical publication.

Statistical manpower in position in the LEM Division of the Planning Commission is

given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 1

Primary : 0

Total : 2

52.00.02 Perspective Planning Division (PPD)

The primary role of the Perspective Planning Division of the Planning Commission is to

analyse, assess, estimate and make projections relating to quantitative dimension of medium

term and long term development plans. The projection exercises ensure that the quantitative

dimensions of the plans are consistent between sectors and between various macroeconomic

aggregates. The Division is responsible for making the projection of economic growth and its

sector-wise distribution, projection of levels of living, estimation of poverty ratios, projection

of Governments’ fiscal balance, assessment and estimation of external sector balance. The

Division has a formal economic modeling unit for providing sectoral growth profiles of the


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economy under alternative assumptions. The activities of the Division cover macro-balance in

National Accounting Frame under alternative assumptions of growth profiles, preparation of

the fiscal sub-model of the macro-economic model for medium term plans, short and medium-

term projections for imports, exports at sectoral level; policy issues associated with the WTO

agreements and estimation of poverty line and incidence of poverty for which the Planning

Commission is the nodal agency in the Government of India.

There is no separate statistical unit functioning in PPD. However, there are sanctioned

posts for statistical officers in the Division.

Statistical manpower in the PPD is given below:

Professional : 1

Intermediate : 0

Primary : 0

Total : 1

52.00.03 Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO)

The Programme Evaluation Organization was established in October, 1952, as an

independent organization, under the general guidance and direction of the Planning Commission

with a specific task of evaluating the community development programmes and other Intensive

Area Development Schemes. The Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO) undertakes

evaluation of selected programmes/schemes under implementation, as per the requirement

of the various Divisions of the Planning Commission and Ministries/Departments of Government

of India. The PEO is conducting external evaluation, independent of the administrative channels,

through direct observations, sample surveys and social science research methods. The PEO is

primarily a field level organization under the overall charge of the Deputy Chairman, Planning

Commission. It has a three-tier structure with its Headquarters at Planning Commission, New

Delhi. The middle rung is represented by the Regional Evaluation Offices, while the next link is

the Field Units known as the Project Evaluation Offices.

The statistical wing of PEO mainly assists in preparing the study design/methodology

of the study, such as: preparation of sampling frame for selection of states, districts, block,

gram panchayats, villages/habitations and beneficiaries/non-beneficiaries etc. for conducting

the Evaluation Study. The PEO does not bring out any regular publication. It brings out evaluation

reports on different subjects of development Schemes/Programmes of the Divisions of the

Planning Commission/Central Ministries.

Statistical manpower in the PEO is given below:

Professional : 3

Intermediate : 3

Primary : 1

Total : 7


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53. RESERVE BANK OF INDIA

The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 sets out the objectives of the Reserve Bank: ‘to

regulate the issue of Bank notes and the keeping of reserves with a view to securing monetary

stability in India and generally to operate the currency and credit system of the country to its

advantage’. The formulation, framework and institutional architecture of monetary policy in

India have evolved around these objectives-maintaining price stability, ensuring adequate flow

of credit to sustain the growth momentum, and securing financial stability. The responsibility

for ensuring financial stability has entailed the vesting of extensive powers in and operational

objectives for the Reserve Bank for regulation and supervision of the financial system and its

constituents, the money, debt and foreign exchange segments of the financial markets in India

and the payment and settlement system. In addition, the Reserve Bank pursues operational

objectives in the context of its core function of issuance of bank notes and currency management

as well as its agency functions such as banker to Government (Centre and States) and

management of public debt; banker to the banking system including regulation of bank reserves

and the lender of the last resort. Regulation, supervision and development of the financial

system remain within the legitimate ambit of monetary policy broadly interpreted in India.

The role of communication policy, therefore, lies in articulating the hierarchy of objectives in a

given context in a transparent manner, emphasizing a consultative approach as well as autonomy

in policy operations and harmony with other elements of macroeconomic policies.

The Department of Statistics and Information Management is the main provider of

statistical services in the Reserve Bank of India. The primary objective of the Department is to

provide high quality statistical service by way of collection, compilation, analysis and

dissemination of information relating to monetary, banking, corporate and external sectors.

The other major area of focus is to provide the inputs to the top management for policy

formulation and to carry out research activities in conformity with these needs. In addition,

the Department has been entrusted with the work of maintaining the Central Database

Management System (CDBMS), a state-of-the-art data-repository based on the latest data

warehousing technology.

Regional Offices of the Department located at Chennai, Kolkata, New Delhi, Ahmedabad,

Bangalore and Lucknow form the support system for the data collection mechanism of the

Department. These offices play a major role in collection, editing and compiling data pertaining

to banking, corporate, balance of payments, foreign exchange and other statistics covering the

regions under the respective jurisdictions. Periodically, they are conducting workshops on BSR,

FETRS etc., for the bankers under their jurisdiction. These Offices are also taking leading role in

IT advancements.

There are eleven divisions in the Department viz. Administration and Personnel

Management Division, Balance of Payments Statistics Division, Banking Statistics Division,

Company Finances Division, Corporate Studies Division, Division of Banking Studies, Forecasting

Division, Operational Analysis Division, Statistical Analysis Division, Systems Management

Division, and Survey Division. The divisions are headed by Directors. The Directors in the divisions


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are supported by Assistant Advisers and Research Officers. Two/three divisions together are

supervised by Advisers. Principal Adviser/Officer-in-charge is the administrative head of the

Department.

The Department brings out the following publications:

Annual:

Ø Basic Statistical Returns of Scheduled Commercial Banks in India

Ø Statistical Tables Relating to Banks in India

Ø Profile of Banks

Quarterly:

Ø Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial

Banks

Adhoc:

Ø Handbook of Instructions on BSR 1 & 2 returns

Ø Branch Banking Statistics

Statistical manpower in position in the Reserve Bank of India is given below:

Professional : 249@

Intermediate : -

Primary : 153

Total : 402

@ Includes statistical Intermediate Personnel also. It also includes DSIM (Central Office, Regional

Offices and DSIM Officers in other operational departments) and general side officers at C.O.

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54. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was set up in April 1963 as a central police

agency with the objective of investigating the cases of bribery and corruption, as also violation

of Central fiscal laws, major frauds relating to Government of India departments, public joint

stock companies, passport frauds, crimes on the high seas, crimes on the Airlines and serious

crimes committed by organised gangs and professional criminals. Over the years a few changes

have been made in the mandate of the organization with addition of certain activities and

transfer of certain activities to other organizations. At present, it has the following divisions:

i. Anti Corruption Division

ii. Economic Offences Division

iii. Special Crimes Division

iv. Policy & International Police Cooperation Division

v. Administration Division

vi. Directorate of Prosecution

vii. Central Forensic Science Laboratory

The statistical work of the organization relating to Crime Records and Statistics Division,

initially with CBI, has since been transferred to other organizations. While a part of the work

relating to crimes was transferred to National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), the work relating

to Research Division was transferred to Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR & D).

At present, statistics generated as part of the administrative activity in the CBI, is maintained

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55. CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION

The Central Vigilance Commission was set up by the Government in February, 1964 on

the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption to advise and guide Central

Government agencies in the field of vigilance. CVC is conceived to be the apex vigilance

institution, free of control from any executive authority, monitoring all vigilance activity under

the Central Government and advising various authorities in Central Government organizations

in planning, executing, reviewing and reforming their vigilance work. Consequent upon

promulgation of an Ordinance, the Central Vigilance Commission has been made a multi

member Commission with “statutory status” with effect from 25th August, 1998. With the

passing of the CVC Bill by both the houses of Parliament in 2003 and subsequent assent by

President, the Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003 came into effect from September 11,

2003. The Commission consists of one Central Vigilance Commissioner as Chairperson and

two Vigilance Commissioners as members.

The Commission does not have any formal Statistical setup and the statistical functions

are performed by the policy section which has a sanctioned post of Statistical Assistant.


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56. COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA

The Comptroller and Auditor General(C & AG) of India is an independent constitutional

authority. The C & AG is both audit as well as accounting authority for the Centre as well as

States. However, the accounting function of the Centre was taken away in 1976 while accounting

of the States continues with C & AG, except of Goa. The Indian Audit and Account Department,

headed by C & AG of India is having offices in all the States, headed by Principle Accountant

Generals or Accountant Generals.

There is no statistical set up in the department though the need for application of

statistical sampling techniques in regularity (compliance) and performance (value for money)

is being felt. A beginning has been made in this direction by creation of a post of Statistical

Adviser.

Statistical staff in position in the department is as follows:

Professional : 1

Intermediary : -

Primary : -

Total : 1


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57. UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

The Union Public Service Commission has been established under Article 315 of the

Constitution of India. The Commission consists of a Chairman and ten Members. The terms

and conditions of service of Chairman and Members of the Commission are governed by the

Union Public Service Commission (Members) Regulations, 1969. The Commission is serviced

by a Secretariat headed by a Secretary with two Additional Secretaries, a number of Joint

Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries and other supporting staff.

The Union Public Service Commission has been entrusted with the following duties

and role under the Constitution:

1. Recruitment to services & posts under the Union through conduct of

competitive examinations;

2. Recruitment to services & posts under the Central Government by Selection

through Interviews;

3. Advising on the suitability of officers for appointment on promotion as well as

transfer-on-deputation;

4. Advising the Government on all matters relating to methods of Recruitment

to various services and posts;

5. Disciplinary cases relating to different civil services; and

6. Miscellaneous matters relating to grant of extra ordinary pensions,

reimbursement of legal expenses etc.

The major role played by the Commission is to select persons to man the various Central

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1. ANDHRA PRADESH

The system of official statistics in the State of Andhra Pradesh (AP) is decentralized

with the Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) functioning as a Nodal agency. The

decision-making agencies in the government utilize the information provided by this Directorate.

As a part of the State Government’s e-Governance initiative, DES has also been designated as

“Data Ware House” under which the DES is required to create a comprehensive database

pertaining to Andhra Pradesh on various parameters. In addition to DES, several line

departments are engaged in statistical activities related to their respective specialized field/

subject. Departments’ viz. Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medical and Health, etc. recruits its

own staff as there is no common statistical cadre. Some departments like Rural Development,

Labour, Fisheries, Forest, Education, Cooperation, Irrigation and Industries are engaging the

services of Statistical personal on deputation basis. The data collection in the state is not

facilitated by any State Legislation, except to the extent it is covered by Central legislations like

Collection of Statistics Act and Registration of Births and Deaths Act.

Organizational Structure

2. The administrative structure is three tier viz., Planning Department, Directorate of

Economics and Statistics (D.E.&S.), Chief Planning Office (C.P.O.) at District head quarters and

also with important functionaries at Divisional level one Deputy Statistical Officer and Assistant

Statistical Officer in each and every Mandal working under the control of Revenue Divisional

Officer and Tahsildar respectively. The C.P.Os are present in all the 23 districts of the State.

D.E. & S. is under the administrative Control of the Planning Department and is headed by a

Director and supported by Joint Directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors, Statistical

officers, Deputy Statistical Officers, Assistant Statistical officers and the ministerial staff. The

manpower comprises of mostly Statisticians and Economists at various levels. The Director,

Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Andhra Pradesh is designated as State Agriculture

Statistical Authority ( S A S A ) in this State.

Statistical Activities of DES

3. Main statistical activities of DES are as under:

Ø Conduct of Agricultural Census (Census of Land Holdings)

Ø Conduct of Economic Census (Quinquennial)

Ø Conduct of Census of State Government and Public Sector Employees

Ø Conduct of Minor Irrigation Census

Ø Conduct Distributive Trade Survey

Ø Rainfall Statistics and Seasonal Conditions

Ø Timely Reporting of Agricultural Statistics (T.R.A.S)


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Ø Crop Estimation Surveys – NAIS(General – Mandal as a unit)

Ø Crop Estimation Surveys - Village Insurance Scheme (Village as a unit)

Ø Conduct Fruit and Vegetables Surveys

Ø Collection of Cost of Cultivation Studies

Ø Estimation of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)

Ø Estimation of Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF)

Ø Estimation of District Domestic Product

Ø Economic and Purposive Classification of A.P Government Budget

Ø Participation in Annual Survey of Industries (ASI)

Ø Compilation of Index of Industrial Production (IIP)

Ø Maintenance of Business Register

Ø Collection of Price Statistics (Wholesale as well Retail)

Ø Collection of Wages of Agricultural Labourers, and Daily Wages of Construction

Workers.

Ø Compilation of Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers

Ø Participation in Socio-Economic Surveys Conducted by NSSO

Ø Collection and Maintenance of Official Statistics by Other Departments

Ø Environment Statistics

Publications

4. DES brings out number of following regular and adhoc publications:

Sl. No. Name of Publication Frequency

1 2 3

1. An Outline of Agriculture Situation in Andhra Pradesh, Annual

2. Season and Crop Report of Andhra Pradesh, Annual

3. Fruits & Vegetables Crops in Andhra Pradesh Adhoc

4. Business Register in Andhra Pradesh Adhoc

5. Enterprises in Rural & Urban Sectors Adhoc

6. Interstate Comparison of GSDP and GDP of All-India Annual

7. Rural and Urban Income Differential in Andhra Pradesh Adhoc


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8. State Domestic Product of Andhra Pradesh, Annual

9. New Series of State Domestic Product Andhra Pradesh

(Base year 1999-2000) Annual

10. District Domestic Product of Andhra Pradesh Adhoc

11. Economic Classification of Finances of Zilla Prarishads Annual

12. Economic Classification of Municipalities

13. Economic Classification of Mandal Parishads

14. Gross Fixed Capital Formation of Andhra Pradesh Annual

15. Economic-cum-Purpose Classification of Andhra Pradesh

Government Budget Annual

16. Statistical Abstract of Andhra Pradesh Annual

17. Hand Book of Statistics of Andhra Pradesh Adhoc

18. Andhra Pradesh Economy in Brief Adhoc

19. District-wise Socio Economic Indicators Adhoc

20. Five Decades of Andhra Pradesh Adhoc

21. Pilot Study on Computation of Maternal Mortality Rate

22. Annual Survey of Industries Andhra Pradesh Annual

23. Prices, Wages and Index Numbers, Annual

24. Golden Jubilee of Andhra Pradesh 1956-2006 Adhoc

25. State Domestic Product of Andhra Pradesh( Back Series) Adhoc

26. Report on Unorganized Manufacturing Enterprises – 56th round

(July 2000 to June 2001) Adhoc

27. Report on Unorganized Service Sector (Excluding Trade and

Finance)-57th round (July 2001 to June 2002) Adhoc

28. Report on Morbidity and Healthcare-60th round (January 2004

to June 2004) Adhoc

29. Household Consumer Expenditure-61st Round

( July 2004 to June 2005) Adhoc

30. Comparative Study of Employment and Unemployment in Adhoc

Andhra Pradesh vis-a-vis All India

31. District at a Glance in Andhra Pradesh Annual

32. Fact Book on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Adhoc

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Manpower

5. The total statistical manpower in position in DES and Line Departments is 1872 as given

below:

Sl. No. Offices Nos.

1. Statistical Staff in DES (Head Quarters and districts) 1442

2. Statistical Staff in Line Departments 430

Total 1872


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2. ASSAM

The statistical system in the State is largely of decentralized type consisting of: The

Directorate of Economics and Statistics(DES), which is the apex statistical organization of the

State, with 38 subordinate offices consisting of Two Regional Office one in the Hill Areas and

another in for newly created BTC Areas, 23District Statistical Offices (DSOs), 13 Sub-divisional

Offices and Statistical cells in each of 114 Community Development (CD) Blocks out of 219

notified CD Block offices of the State. One Sub-Inspector of Statistics belonging to DES has

been posted to each of 114 CD Blocks. There are also Statistical Cells in 34 departments to

process and maintain statistical information for their own and general needs.

Organisational Structure

2. The Director is the Head of the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Assam functions

under the administrative control of the Planning and Development Department, Govt. of Assam.

The Director is assisted by one Additional Director, 5 Joint Directors and other supporting staff

on technical side and by one Additional Director of Statistics assisted by supporting staff on

administration/establishment side. The Technical Divisions are headed by either Joint Director

or Senior Research Officer (SRO). The Directorate has also a small printing cell in Assam

Government Press for printing Statistical Reports and other publications of the Directorate.

The Cell is under the direct control of the Director of Printing and Stationery, Assam. 34

Departments in Assam have statistical cells/units to process and maintain statistical information

for their own and general needs. The statistical staff required in 26 departments has been

partially met by deputation of staff from the DES. These departments have also independently

recruited statistical staff, especially in subordinate rank. The statistical staff of DES has not

been deputed to seven departments which includes major departments like Education ( Other

than technical Education Department) and Sericulture , etc.


3. The statistical activities of DES are listed below :

Ø Estimation of State Gross State Domestic Products.

Ø Estimation of Gross Domestic Capital Formation

Ø Estimating District Domestic Products.

Ø Estimating Contribution of Local Bodies.

Ø Economic & Purpose Classification of the State Budget

Ø Participation in NSS on matching basis.

Ø Annual Survey of Industries, compilation of statistical return relating to factories

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Ø Civil Registration Scheme of Birth & Death and Causes of Death.

Ø Census of State Government and Local Bodies Employees.

Ø Conducting of Economic Census and Preparing its Report.

Ø Publishing the Economic Survey of the State.

Ø Training of Statistical Personnel.

Ø Electronic Data Processing.

Other activities of DES:

Ø Agricultural Census

Ø Input Survey

Ø Industrial Statistics

• Conduct of Annual Survey of Industries

• Construction of Index of Industrial Production

• Collection of Mineral Statistics

• Prepare Annual Industrial Report

• Collect Statistics on Strikes and Lockouts

• Construction of Index of Industrial Production

• Collection of Monthly Production Data of Some Selected Industries

• Rural Retail Prices and Urban Retail Prices

• Farm Harvest Prices

• Wholesale Prices of Agricultural Commodities

• Prices of Non Agricultural Commodities

• Monthly Statement on Agricultural Labour Wages.

• Fortnightly Farm (Wholesale) Prices and Prices of Seeds and Cattle

• Quarterly Prices of Building Materials and Wages of Building Construction

Workers

• Price Indices

• Price Bulletin


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Ø CCE under National Agriculture Insurance Scheme

Ø Agricultural Index Number (Base 1981-82=100)

Ø Improvement of Crop Statistics (ICS)

Ø Sample Survey on Arecanut, Coconut, Fruits and Vegetagble (ACFV)

Ø Census of Assam Govt. Employees and other Establishments as on 31st March,

1999.

Line Departments-Statistical Activities

Ø Statistics relating to Animal Husbandry, Livestock & Veterinary Services

Ø Statistics relating to Panchayat and Rural Development

o Conducting BPL surveys once in five years

o Preparation of annual and five year plans of Panchayat and Rural

Development at state and district levels.

o Monitoring of other rural programmes like SGSY, Special SGSY, SGRY

(Stream-I and stream-II), IAY, Pradhan Mantri Gramodhaya Yojane,

IWDP, NPBD and PMGSY.

o Monitoring of new programme “National Food for Work”

implemented in five districts.

Ø Statistics of Commercial Taxes

Ø Social Welfare Statistics

Ø Statistics relating to Co-operation

Ø Statistics relating to Sericulture

Publications

4. The list of DES publications and statistical publications of line departments is given in

the following Table:

List of Statistical Publications

Sl. No. Name of Publications Periodicity

1 2 3

1. Statistical Hand Book, Assam Annual


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2. Economic Survey, Assam Annual

3. Annual Administrative Report Annual

4. Assam at a Glance Annual

5. Assam Budget in Brief Annual

6. Statistical Abstract, Assam Decadal

7. Report on Assam Govt. Employees Census Adhoc

8. Agricultural Census Quinquennial

9. Input Survey Quinquennial

10. Annual Survey of Industries Annual

11. Index of Industrial Production Annual

12. Mineral Statistics, Assam Adhoc

13. Education Statistics Adhoc

14. Power Statistics, Assam Adhoc

15. Road Statistics, Assam Adhoc

16. Basic Statistics, Assam Adhoc

17. Estimates of State Domestic Products, 1990-51 to 2000-01

(Base:1993-94=100) Adhoc

18. Gross Fixed Capital Formation Biennial

19. Estimates of DDP 3 years

20. Economic Cum- Purpose Classification Annual

21. Rural Retail Prices Bulletin

22. Urban Retail Prices Bulletin

23. Price Bulletin

24. Estimates of Area Production Annually

25. Index No. of Area Production Annually

26. Report on Crop estimates survey on principal crop Annual

27. Report on Sample Survey for estimation of Area under

Agreement coconut, fruits and vegetable in Assam Annual

28. Annual Report on Timely Reporting Scheme Annual

29. Report on Sample Check Annual

30. Land Utilization Statistics Annual


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Manpower

5. The Directorate has the sanctioned strength of 1153 statistical posts and 187 ministerial

posts (5 gazetted and 182 non-gazetted). However, the total statistical manpower in position

in DES and in Line Departments is 783 as given below:

Statistical Staff in Position

Sl. No. Office No.

1. Statistical Staff in DES 621*

2. Line Departments 138

3. Printing Cell 24

Total 783

*:- No. of statistical staff in DES decreased due to abolition of posts and non filling of vacant

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3. BIHAR

The statistical system of Bihar is decentralized with the Directorate of Statistics and

Evaluation (DSE) as the key agency for collection and dissemination of statistics. The individual

line departments are responsible for collection, compilation, processing and release of the

data in their own subject fields. The DSE has not yet been declared as a Nodal statistical agency.

Departments with statistical cells are functioning independently through their own staff. Each

department recruits its own staff as there is no common statistical cadre. However, in number

of line departments statistical staff has been provided by DSE. Many of the departments do

not have any statistical cell and statistical staff.

Organisation of DSE

2. The Directorate of Statistics & Evaluation functions under the administrative control of

the Planning Department. The DSE has office in all the nine Divisions. The DSE has District

Offices in 16 of 38 districts headed by the District Statistical officer. DSE has presence in each

community development block by way of Block Statistical Assistant (BSS) placed in each Block

to cater to the statistical requirements of the Block. The Block Statistical Supervisor functions

under the technical control of the concerned district statistical officer. Hence the DSE has

Divisional, District (inclusive of 5 evaluation offices), and Block level presence. Number of line

Departments in the State Government collect, compile, process and analyse all statistical data

pertaining to the field of their responsibility.

Statistical activities of DSE

3. The key statistical function performed by DSE are listed below:

Ø Estimation of State Domestic Product & District Domestic Products.

Ø Capital Formation and Savings

Ø Registration of Births & Deaths

Ø National Sample Survey

Ø Estimation of Crop-wise Area and Production including Land Utilisation.

Ø Timely Reporting Scheme (TRS)-Conducts Crop Cutting Experiment

Ø Collection of Prices and Compilation of Consumer Price Index Numbers

Ø Wholesale Price Index Numbers for Agricultural Commodities

Other Statistical Activities of DSE

Ø Economic Census (Quinquennial)


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Ø Compilation of Official Statistics

Ø Collection of Rainfall Data

Ø Area & Production of Horticulture Crops

Ø Irrigation Statistics

Ø Census of Minor Irrigation

Ø Jail & Crime Statistics

Ø Transport Survey

Statistical Activities of the Line Department:

Ø Collection of data for agriculture census.

Ø Collection and compilation of fisheries statistics

Ø Conduct of livestock census.

Ø Estimation of production of major livestock products such as milk, egg, meat,

wool, etc.

Ø Annual progress report of animal husbandry activities.

Ø Booklets and pamphlets regarding animal husbandry activities.

Ø Collection of data on households affected by floods and other natural disasters.

Ø Collection of data on rural development sector.

Ø Collection of data on rural employment.

Publications

4. Dissemination of statistics through publications and reports both on a regular and adhoc

basis is an important function of DSE. The publications brought out by DSE provide State level

statistics. District level data is published by the DSOs. The publications are listed in the table

below:


1 2 3

1. Bihar at a Glance Annual

2. Bihar Through Figures Annual


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3. Statistical Hand Book-Bihar State Annual

4. Statistical Hand Book – Districts Annual

5. Statistical Hand Book – Division Annual

6. State Domestic Report Annual

7. Report on Capital Formation Annual

8. Administrative Report Annual

9. Planning & Evaluation Report Adhoc

10. Economy Census Report Adhoc

11. Minor Irrigation Census Adhoc

12. Consumer Statistics Adhoc

13. Analysis of Budgetary Transactions Adhoc

14. State Domestic Product, Back Series Adhoc

Manpower

5. The total sanctioned strength of DSE is 1,728 out of which 854 positions are filled up.

The statistical staff strength of DSE and Line Departments in position is 669 as per the following

details:


1. Statistical Staff in DSE 654


3 Total 669


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4. CHHATTISGARH

The statistical system in Chhattishgarh is decentralized with the individual line

departments responsible for collection, processing and releasing of data relating to their subject

matter. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics has been declared as a nodal agency for

statistical activities in the State. However, there are few line departments like the Agriculture,

Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Revenue, Education, Health, Energy, etc where statistical cells

are well organized. Various line Departments have their own district and subordinate offices.

Organizational Structure of DES

2. The Directorate of Economics & Statistics in Chhattishgarh has been formed in November

2000. The Directorate of Economic and Statistics is under the administrative control of the

Department of Finance, Planning and 20 Point Programme. The Directorate is headed by a

Director who is assisted by three Joint Directors, Seven Deputy Director and other administrative

and technical staffs. Specific statistical activities within the Directorate are conducted through

respective Assistant Statistical Officers and the Assistant Directors under the overall supervision

of the Deputy Director and the Joint Director. At the District level, there are District Planning

and Statistics Offices (DPSOs) headed by a District Planning and Statistical Officer. There are 18

District Planning and Statistics Offices - one in each district headquarter. The DES has also its

presence in each of the 146 community development blocks in the State through one block

level investigators posted in the block from DES. The said officer functions under the control of

the DPSO and is responsible for collection and compilation of statistical data relating to the

block and furnishes reports to their respective DPSO.

Key Statistical Activities of DES

3. Some of the key statistical activities and the other statistical activities performed by

the DES are as under:

Ø Civil Registration (Enforcement of Births and Deaths Act 1969)

Ø Estimation of GSDP, NSDP and related parameters, Contribution of Local Bodies

Ø Economic and Purpose Classification of State Budget

Ø Conduct of NSS Survey

Ø Monitoring of MPLAD, MLALAD

Ø Review of Twenty Point Programme Performance

Other Statistical Activities of DES

Some of the other activities of DES are:

Ø Economic Survey of Chhattishgarh

Ø Survey of Non-Profit Institutions


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Ø Budget in Brief, the latest relating to the Budget 2007-08

Ø USHA-Project

Ø Conducting Census of Employees working under the State Government, Public

Service Undertaking, Universities and Local Bodies

Ø Conducting of Economic Census at five-year intervals.

Ø Ad - hoc surveys / collection and compilation of socio-economic data

Ø Participation in Planning Process and data dissemination

Ø Electronic data processing

Ø Compilation of data for preparation of Statistical Abstract, Handbook of Basic

Statistics, etc.

Statistical Functions of DPSO

The responsibilities entrusted to the District Planning and Statistics Offices are enumerated as

under;

Ø Act as the field agency of DES for collection of both primary and secondary data

and for conducting various types of estimation studies

Ø Collection, Scrutiny and preliminary compilation of data at district level

Ø Collection of primary data for the districts and the talukas and bring out the

annual publications like the District Statistical Hand Book, Socio-Economic

Indicators for the District, District Level Economic Survey and the Janpad

Panchayatki Pramukh Ankde

Ø Collect and compile Basic Infrastructure facilities available in villages

Ø Guide the Statistical Ivestigators posted to the blocks for compilation of data

relating to the Blocks

Ø Extending assistance in various censuses like; the Population Census, Livestock

Census, Economic Census, Agricultural Census, Collection of data for Census of

Government and Local Bodies Employees

Ø Collection of socio-economic data

Ø Compilation and monitoring of District Plan and verification works taken through

programmes under the District Plan.

Ø Providing secretarial assistance to the District Planning Committee through the

Collector

Ø Implementation of MPLAD, MLALAD and Jan Sahayogita Schemes

Ø Assist the Collector in review of Development of Programmes in the District

Ø Providing secretarial assistance to the District Planning Committee in formulating

annual and five year plans,

Ø Sanction of MPLADS funds and supervision of works under it,

Ø Review of development programmes,


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Statistical Activities of Line Departments

The statistical activities of some of the line departments are mentioned below.

Ø Estimation of Livestock Products

Ø Conduct of Livestock Census (latest-2007: Quinquennial)

Ø Statistics relating to Fisheries Sector

Publications of DES and DPSOs

4. The DES Chhattishgarh brings out number of regular and ad-hoc publications. The District

Planning and Statistics Offices also bring out certain publications at their level. A list of

publications brought out by the DES and by the District Planning and Statistics Offices in

Chhattishgarh is given below:

Publications of DES Chhattishgarh and the DPSOs

Sl. No. Name of Publication Periodicity

1 2 3

1. Chhattishgarh Statistics in Brief Annual

2. Chhattishgarh at a Glance Annual

3. Estimates of State Domestic Product of Chhattishgarh Annual

(1993-94 to 2004-05)

4. Economic and Purpose Classification of State Budget. Annual

5. Capital Formation (for One Sector)

6. Budget in Brief, Chhattishgarh Annual

7. Districts at a Glance Annual

8. Census of Government Employee Three Yearly 3 yearly

9. District-wise Indicators of Socio-economic Parameters Biennual

10. Economic Survey of Chhattishgarh Annual

11. Chhattishgarh in Graphs and Charts 2001 Special Issue

12. Statistical Abstract Biannual

13. Hand Book of Basic Statistics Annual

14. Report on Annual Vital Statistics, Chhattishgarh. Annual

15. Report on Medical Certification of Causes of Death Annual

16. Report on Implementation of Registration of Births and

Deaths Act, 1969. Annual


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17. District Statistical Hand Book Annual

18. Socio-economic Indicators Annual

19. Janpad Panchayatki Pramukh Ankde Annual

Manpower of DES and Line Departments

5. There is no common statistical cadre covering all the statistical posts existing in various

Departments of the State Government. The staff strength in Chhattishgarh including statistical

staff in DES and statistical staff in Line Departments along with other administrative & accounts

staff is given in the table below.

Staff Strength in DES and statistical staff in line Departments


1. Statistical Staff in DES 195


Total 458

Note: Statistical Staff in DES includes staffs from Director to Computer/DEO.


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5. GOA

The system of official statistics in Goa is decentralized. The Directorate of Planning,

Statistics and Evaluation (DPSE) is responsible for coordinating all statistical activities in the

State. The individual line departments are responsible for collection, processing and releasing

of data in their own subject fields. In Goa most line departments are functioning independently

in all statistical activities through the statistical common cadre staff appointed by DES. The

Line Departments like Agriculture, health, education, and Fisheries are functioning

independently for collection and publication of departmental data.


2. The DPSE has no regional, district or block level Statistical Offices. Activities relating to

the two Districts North and South Goa are handled by the headquarter officers. The Director

DPSE is the ex-Officio Joint Secretary to the Government and reports directly to Commissioner

& Secretary Finance & Planning. The Director is also the Chief Registrar of Births & Deaths

(RBD) in the State.

Statistical Activities of DPSE

3. Statistical activities are as under:-

Ø State Income Estimates

Ø Estimates of State Domestic Product

Ø Capital Formation and Savings

Ø Annual Survey of Industries

Ø Collection of Data for Index of Industrial Production

Ø Collection of Data for Wholesale Price Index

Ø Collection of Data for Consumer Price Index

Ø Housing Statistics

Ø Births and Deaths Registration Statistics

Ø Socio Economic Surveys (of NSSO)

Ø Statistics for Local Area Planning

Line Departments

Ø Fisheries Statistics

Ø Tourism Statistics


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Ø Land Record Statistics

Ø Livestock Census and Monthly Reports on Veterinary Services

Ø Integrated Sample Survey for Estimation of Milk, Eggs, and Meat Production

Ø Area and Production Estimates of Horticulture and Vegetables

Ø Estimate of Area under Sugarcane

Ø Women & Child Welfare


Ø Crop Area and Production Statistics

Ø Health, Mortality, Morbidity and Family Welfare Statistics

Ø Education and Literacy Statistics

Ø Labour and Employment Statistics

Ø Electricity Production and Distribution Statistics

Ø Environment Statistics including Water Supply and Sanitation and Forestry

Statistics

Ø Transport Statistics

Ø Shipping Statistics

Publications

4. The regular/adhoc publications of DPSE are given as under :-

Sr. No. Name of Publication Periodicity

1 2 3

1. Statistical Handbook Annual

2. Goa at a Glance Annual

3. Indicators of Socio Economic Development Annual

4. Goa Economy in Figures Annual

5. Census of Government Employees Quinquennial

6. Annual Plan Annual

7. Five Year Plan Quinquennial


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8. Economic Survey Quinquennial

9. Rural Wages Annual

10. Census of Livestock and Farm Equipment Quinquennial

11. Budget in Brief Annual

12. Credit Deposit Ratio in Goa Annual

13. Economic and Purpose Classification Once in

three years

14. Census of Minor Irrigation Schemes Quinquennial


16. Evaluation report of various programmes implemented by

the Government Adhoc


18. Household Consumer Expenditure Annual

19. Reports on National Sample Surveys Annual

20. Price Trends in Goa State Annual

21. Quarterly Report on Consumer Price Index Numbers Quarterly

22. Monthly Report on Consumer Price Index Numbers Monthly

23. Number of Industrial Workers Annual

24. Annual Report on Registration of Births and Deaths Annual

Manpower

5. There is a Common Statistical Service Cadre in the State, controlled by DPSE. The total

strength of the Common Cadre is 235. Details are given as under. However, the statistical

manpower in position in DPSE, and in Line Departments for statistical activities is 171.

Sl. .No. Offices Numbers

1. Statistical Staff in DPSE-HQ 112


Total 235


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6. GUJARAT

The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) in the Planning wing of the Department

of General Administration (GAD) has been declared the nodal Organisation for all statistical

activities in the State, and is responsible for a wide range of statistics. The DES is organized in

six divisions. The divisions are further organized in terms of Units. The Units are spread among

the six Divisions. There are statistical as well as non-statistical units in different line departments

engaged in collection, compilation and analysis of data in their own spheres of responsibility.

The data collection, except to the extent it is covered by Central legislations like Collection of

Statistics Act, Factories Act and Registration of Births and Deaths Act, and State laws of an

administrative nature such as those on registration of motor vehicles, etc. is not facilitated by

any State legislation.

Organisation Structure of DES

2. DES and the Directorate of Evaluation are the two Directorates located in the Planning

wing of General Administration Department of the Government of Gujarat, headed by Principal

Secretary (Planning). The headquarters of DES is in Gandhinagar. DSOs in Gujarat are not directly

under the control of DES. There are three statistical Offices (Inspections) [S.O.(I)] under the

DES responsible for conducting and supervising the work related to National Sample Survey

and other field surveys of DES located at Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Rajkot. There is a District

Statistical Office in each District, but it does not function as a part of DES, though headed by a

District Statistical Officer in the cadre controlled by DES. These offices function primarily as a

part of the District Panchayat office under the Panchayat Department. The DES has no staff at

Taluka or village levels. The statistical activities at the Taluka Development Offices are handled

by a Statistical Assistant borne on the strength of the Panchayat Department. Similarly, at the

village level, the village Panchayat Secretary (Talati) and ‘Gram Sevak’ perform the statistical

functions of supplying information to the Taluka Development office upwards.

Functions

3. The main functions of DES are:

Ø To collect, process and compile important statistical information on the State’s

economy;

Ø To conduct socio-economic studies, surveys and censuses;

Ø To prepare estimates of State Domestic Product

Ø To organize regular training programmes for statistical personnel

Ø To coordinate all statistical activities of various State Government Departments

and suggest improvements

Ø To undertake or assist in undertaking special and ad hoc surveys required by

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Ø To provide statistical inputs to various committees constituted by the

Government.

Ø To operate the Gujarat Statistical Service


4. Statistical activities of DES are given below:

Ø State GSDP and Gross Domestic Capital Formation

Ø Participation in NSSO Surveys

Ø Compilation of District/Talukas level data for local level planning

Ø Compilation of transport statistics

Ø Compilation of housing statistics


Ø Socio-Economic Review of Gujarat State

Ø Economic-cum-Purpose Classification of Budget

Ø Preparation of Municipal Year Book

Ø Village Amenities Survey

Ø Economic Census

Ø Cost of Construction studies

Ø Dissemination of Statistical Information

Ø Coordination of Statistical Activities

Statistical activities of line Departments are given below:

Ø Population data

Ø Forest statistics

Ø Animal Husbandry Statistics

Ø Fisheries statistics

Ø Statistics of registered industrial units

Ø Statistics of sales tax revenue


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Ø Mining statistics

Ø Statistics of registered motor vehicles

Ø Labour statistics

Ø Primary education statistics

Ø Technical education statistics

Ø Higher education statistics

Ø Statistics on health, morbidity and mortality

Ø Statistics relating to rural development programmes

Ø Statistics relating to tribal development programmes

Ø Statistics relating to cooperative societies

Ø Tourism statistics

Publication

5. Following important publications are brought out by DES:


1 2 3

1. Socio-Economic Review, Gujarat State (English and Gujarati) Annual

2. Budget in Brief, Gujarat State (English and Gujarati) Annual

3. Statistical Outline of Gujarat (Priced) Annual

4. Statistical Abstract of Gujarat State (Priced) Annual

5. State Domestic Product, Gujarat State Annual

6. An Economic and Purpose Classification of Gujarat State Budget Annual

7. Price Statistics in Gujarat State Five-yearly

8. Half-Yearly Bulletin on Price Statistics and Price Indices, Half -yearly

January-June 2004

9. Annual Survey of Industries Census and Factory Sector Results Annual

10. Statistics of Municipal Towns and Cities Annual

11. Basic Transport Statistics, Gujarat Annual

12. Traffic Census Results Annual

13. Quarterly Review of Gujarat Economy Quarterly


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14. Basic Statistics, Gujarat Annual

15. A Report on Fourth Economic Census 2 to 5 years

16. Gross Fixed Capital Formation in State Government Sector,

Gujarat State Annual

17. Gross Fixed Capital Formation by Non-Departmental

Commercial Undertakings of Govt. of Gujarat State Annual

18. Consumption Expenditure in State Government Sector,

Gujarat State Annual

19. Gujarat Among the States of India Annual

Manpower

6. A common Gujarat Statistics Service including both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted posts

was notified in 1965. DSOs in Gujarat are not directly under the DES. DES have a total sanctioned

strength of 808 out of which 513 are in position, 152 in DES and 361 in the Line Departments as

given in the following table:

Sl. No. Office Nos.

1 Statistical Staff in DES 152

2 Statistical Staff in Line Departments 361

Total 513


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7. HARYANA

The System of official statistics in the State of Haryana is decentralized. The office of

the Economics and Statistical Adviser is the apex statistical organization for collection and

dissemination of various data relating to the State, to coordinate the statistical activities of

various departments in the State and to advise the Government on Economic and Statistical

matters. The individual line departments are primarily responsible for collection and release

of data in their own specialized field/subject. Each department recruits its own staff as there is

no common statistical cadre. The ESO has a two tier system i.e. State Head Quarters and the

Districts. Thus, the statistical system in Haryana consists of (i) Office of Economic and Statistical

Adviser which functions as the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, (ii) District Statistical

Offices, and (iii) statistical cells on some line departments.

Organisational Structure of ESO

2. ESO works under the administrative control of the Planning Department, Haryana. This

Organisation is functioning as Nodal Agency for all statistical activities in the State but it has

not been declared formally by the State Govt. so far. The organization is responsible for

collection, compilation, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of statistical data on socio-

economic aspects of the State economy. All types of statistical data required by the Central

Government and other State Governments regarding Haryana State is also supplied by the

Organisation. It has three divisions viz. (a) Statistical (b) Planning and (c) Evaluation. The Statistics

wing is responsible for collection compilation, analysis and dissemination of statistical data on

all socio-economic aspects of the development of the State. The Planning Wing looks after all

the work pertaining to formulation of annual and Five year plans.

Statistical Activities of ESO

3. Statistical Activities of ESO are as given below:

Ø To collect, compile & analyze data regarding various socio-economic aspects of

the State.

Ø To serve as a store-house for all types of statistics required for planning and

formulation of development programmes;

Ø To undertake surveys and enquiries regarding various socio-economic problems

of the State;

Ø To coordinate statistical activities of various departments of the State

Government.

Ø To advise the Government on economic & statistical matters;

Ø To work in liaison with the Central Statistical Organisation, Government of India

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Ø To carry out evaluation studies of development programmes /projects /

schemes;

Ø To undertake formulation and implementation of Five Year/Annual Plans;

Ø To monitor the progress of various programmes being implemented under 20-

Point Programme; and

Ø To co-ordinate manpower and employment activities of various departments

and to undertake manpower & employment studies.


Ø Conduct Integrated Livestock Surveys (annual)

Ø Conduct Livestock Census (5 yearly-17th Census was conducted in 2003)

Ø Estimate the Annual Production Mainly of Milk, Eggs and Meat.

Ø Monthly Report on Contagious Diseases

Ø Monthly Report on Market Prices of Livestock and Livestock Products.

Ø Conduct of Livestock, Farm Equipment and Fisheries Census.

Ø Estimates of Production of Inland Fisheries, Landing Price and Value of

Production (monthly and annual).

Ø Computerization of Land Records.

Ø Collection of data on beneficiaries of the schemes for the care, protection and

rehabilitation of socially under privileged belonging to both urban and rural

areas.

Publications

4. The following regular and adhoc publications are brought out by E.S.O, Haryana:-


1 2 3

1. An Analysis of State Finance Annual


3. Annual Plan Document Annual

4. Annual Progress Report (20 Point programme) Annual

5. Availability of Selected Facilities in Haryana 58th Round Round wise

6. Booklet on Haryana’s Economy Annual


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7. Census of Haryana Government Employees ( as on 31-03-2006) Annual

8. Condition of Slums in Haryana 58th Round. Round wise

9. Consumer Price Index Numbers for Working Class. Monthly

10. Disabled Persons in Haryana 58th Round Round wise

11. Economic-cum-Purpose Classification of Haryana

Government Budget. Annual

12. Economic Survey of Haryana Annual

13. Economic of Farming in Haryana Annual

14. Economic Census Adhoc

15. Estimates of Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) in Haryana Annual

16. An Economic-cum-Functional Classification /Annual of Budgets

of MC/Councils/Corporations in Haryana. Annual

17. Review of Retail Prices of Essential Monthly Commodities. Monthly

18. Family Budget of Cultivators Annual

19. Five Year Plan Document Quinquennial

20. GSDP, NSDP, Per Capita Income Annual

21. Household Consumer Expenditure and Employment-

Un-employment Situation in Haryana. Round wise


23. State Statistical Abstract of Haryana Annual

24. Unorganised Manufacturing Enterprises in Haryana 56th Round Round wise

25. A Brief Note on Whole Sale Price Situation Adhoc

Manpower

5. There is no common statistical cadre in the State. The total statistical manpower in

position in ESO and Line Departments is 1038 as given below:

Sl. No. Office Nos.


2. Statistical staff in Line Departments 737

Total 1038


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8. HIMACHAL PRADESH

The Directorate of Economics and Statistics, as nodal agency, is responsible to co-

ordinate statistical activities in the State. DES also maintains liaison with the various statistical

agencies at the center and in different states. Some Line Departments have Statistical Cells

which are responsible for coordination of statistical activities of their respective Departments.


2. The Chief Minister is the Minister –In charge of the Department of Economics and

Statistics. The Additional Chief Secretary (Fin. E&S) is the Secretary of the Department. The

administrative department at the Secretariat level is the Planning Branch. The Economic Adviser

of Economic and Statistics is the Head of the Department. Besides being the Head of the

Department for the Directorate he/she is Officer on Special Duty on behalf of the Government

of India and Chairman of the State level committee on ASI in HP. The Directorate has Offices at

Regional District/Block level.

Statistical Activities of Economics and Statistics Department

3. The statistical activities of Economic and statistics Department are given below:

Ø Estimation of State/District Income and Per Capita Income Estimates

Ø Estimation of Capital Formation

Ø Conduct/Participate in Socio-Economic Surveys of NSSO

Ø Collection of Price Statistics

Ø Rural Development Statistics

Ø Construction and Compilation of Industrial Production Index

Ø Collection and Compilation of Tribal Statistics,

Ø Conduct Various Bench Mark Surveys

Ø Collection and Compilation of Housing and Building Statistics

Ø Conduct of Population Census,

Ø Conduct of Economic Census

Ø Conduct Annual Census of Employees

Ø Conduct of Crop Cutting Experiment

Ø Construction of Building Cost Index Number


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Ø Estimation of Capital Formation in Household and Corporate Sector

Ø Construction of Human Development Index

Ø Economic and Purpose Classification of Himachal Pradesh Government Budget

and Local Bodies


The Line Departments are responsible for:

Ø Compilation and analysis of agriculture data under the TRS/ICS/Crops Estimation

survey on fruits, vegetable area and minor crops, minor irrigation

Ø Supply of yield data under Rastriya Krisho Bima Yojna to the Agriculture Insurance

Company of India Limited, New Delhi.

Ø Conduct of Agriculture Census

Ø Annual excise and revenue data

Ø Collection, compilation/ dissemination of educational statistics

Ø Conduct of Socio-Economic Survey

Ø Conduct of Household Survey

Ø Monitoring and evaluation of departmental schemes/ programmes relating to

Horticulture

Ø Collection and compilation of statistical data of the department

Ø Statistics relating to Animal Husbandry, Livestock and Veterinary Service

Ø Estimation of milk, eggs, wool and meat, etc.

Ø Conducting of Livestock Census

Ø Conducting of Agriculture Census.

Ø Collection, compilation, scrutiny and tabulation of various data in respect of

health statistics. Mortality statistics and statistics under various National

Programmes,

Ø Collection of data regarding Targeted Public Distribution system (TPDS)

distribution, prices of various essential commodities,

Ø Compilation of the small savings data in the state


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Ø Collection and compilation of data relating to tourist inflow in the state and

also conduct Tourist Traffic Survey in the state

Ø Implementation of welfare ICD/SCP schemes and compilation of budget/data

received from the field agencies

Ø Preparation of tribal sub-plan, budgeting and monitoring of schemes/

programmes in tribal areas,

Ø Collection, compilation and submission of periodic reports to Govt. of India

and State Govt.

Ø Compilation/reporting and monitoring of various statistical information on Rural

Development schemes of the states

Ø Collection, compilation and dissemination of statistical information on various

aspects relating to Small Scale Industries entrepreneurs for development.

Ø Computation of Index of Industrial Production of SI based on monthly production

return from sample units.

Ø Collection of data on energy consumption pattern, compilation of various

information of field offices regarding Renewal Energy Programmes, etc

Publications:

4. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics brings out following regular as well as adhoc

publications:


1 2 3

1. Statistical Outline of H.P. Annual

2. Economic Survey H.P. Annual

3. Gender Statistics Himachal Pradesh Annual

4. Selected Socio Economic Indicators of H.P. Annual

5. Statistical Abstract Annual

6. H.P. in Figures Annual

7. Tribal Outline Annual

8. Elderly in H.P. Annual

9. Economic Census Quinquennial



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11. Household Consumer Expenditure Adhoc

12. Employment and Unemployment Situation in H.P. Adhoc

13. Morbidity & Health Care in H.P. Adhoc

14. “Output-Outcome” Survey in Shimla District Adhoc

15. Economic Classification of H.P. Govt. Budget Annual

16. Gross State Domestic Product of Himachal Pradesh Adhoc

17. District Domestic Product of Himachal Pradesh Adhoc

18. Economic Classification of Urban Local Bodies Budget Annual


20. Census of H.P. Employees Annual

Manpower

5. There is no common statistical cadre in the State. The total statistical staff strength in

position in Department of Economics and Statistics, and Line Departments is 689. Details are

as given below:

Sl. No. Office Nos.

1. Statistical Staff in Department of Economics and Statistics 115


Total 689


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9. JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Jammu & Kashmir State has a decentralized Statistical System. Directorate of Economics

& Statistics (DES) is the nodal agency and has two Regional Offices and 14 District Statistics &

Evaluation Offices and Block level presence in all 119 Blocks. DES is the controlling authority of

the common Statistical Cadre. Statistical Cells in the Line Departments are manned by Common

Statistical Cadre staff with presence in Districts.

Organizational Setup of DES

2. The DES is administratively under the control of Planning and Development Department

and it has been declared as a nodal agency to coordinate and integrate all the statistical activities

and has been providing a strong and reliable statistical data base to the wide spectrum of

users like; policy makers, academicians, planners etc. It has a four tier structure –headquarter

offices in Srinagar and Jammu, Regional Offices, District Statistics & Evaluation Offices and

Block Planning & Statistical Cells having one Statistical Officer and one Junior Statistical Assistant.

There is one Evaluation & Statistics Office in each of the Regions at Jammu and Srinagar.


3. Statistical activities of DES are given as below:

Ø Estimation of State Income

Ø Estimation of GFCF

Ø Estimation of GDP


Ø Economic-cum-Purpose classification of J&K Budget

Ø Preparation of budget in brief

Ø Preparation of pre-budget Economic Survey


Ø Collection and maintenance of Official Statistics

Ø Collection and analysis of Price Statistics

Ø Collection of Housing & Building Statistics

Ø Collection and maintenance of statistics at Block level

Ø To publish core statistics at regular intervals together with critical analysis


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Ø Collection of vital statistics and preparation of vital statistics bulletins

Ø Conduct of evaluation studies of projects and schemes and preparation of reports

thereof.

Ø Conduct of subject specific surveys being assigned by the State Govt;

Statistical activities of Regional Offices of DES

Ø To guide and supervise the activities of statistical cells located at Divisional and

District Levels.

Ø To conduct special evaluation studies and physical audit of schemes at divisional

level and preparation of reports thereof

Ø To collect and compile data at divisional level and bring out divisional level

publications

Ø To discharge administrative functions pertaining to Regional Evaluation &

Statistics Offices


The Directorate of Economics & Statistics, J&K has statistical cells in almost all the State

Departments at Sectt and HoD level. The Statistical Activities of some statistical cells located in

the Line Departments are given below:

Ø Collection of annual returns of statistics from registered units

Ø Field work of the census cum sample survey of SSI units

Ø Preparation of estimates of essential commodities and stock of food grains in

the State and projection of additional requirements thereof

Ø Maintenance of statistical data pertaining to education sector

Ø Conducting of surveys pertaining to education sector

Ø Compilation of Agricultural Statistical Returns

Ø Conducting Crop Estimation Surveys on paddy, maize, wheat, oilseed, and saffron

Ø Compilation and analysis of agriculture data including pre-harvest prices, forecast

reports and input surveys.

Ø Census of Minor Irrigation Sources

Ø Conduct of Live stock and Agricultural Census


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Ø Collection and compilation of statistical data relating to forest and forest produce

and fisheries sector.

Publications:

4. Following Publications are brought out by the DES:


1 2 3

A State level Publications

1. Digest of Statistics Annual

2. J & K in Indian Economy Annual

3. Economic Review of J & K Annual

4. Pre-Budget Economic Survey, J & K Annual

5. Vital Statistics Bulletin Annual

6. State and District Domestic Product Annual

7. Hand Book of Statistics Annual

8. Quarterly Statistical Newsletter Quarterly

9. Atlas of J & K Adhoc

10. Land Use Statistics Adhoc

11. Economic Performance of J&K Adhoc

12. Crop Statistics Adhoc

13. Quarterly Development Journal Quarterly

14. Socio-Economic Profile of J& K State Adhoc

15. Indicators of Regional Development Annual

16. Indicators of Economic Development Biennial

17. Report on 60th NSS Round Annual

18. Economic-cum-Purpose Classification of J&K Budget Annual

19. Evaluation Reports Regular

feature

20. Integrated Sample Survey of Estimation of Livestock and

Livestock Products Annual

Regional Level Publications

21. Regional Digest of Statistics Annual


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22. Indicators of Economic Development Annual

District Level Publications

23. District Statistical Hand Book Annual

24. District Economic Review Annual

25. District at a Glance Annual

26. Constituency wise Amenity Directories Annual

27. Block Statistical Hand Book Annual

28. Evaluation Reports As per set

procedure

Manpower

5. Common Statistical Cadre comprises of two services-Gazetted and Non-Gazetted posts.

The nomenclature of the services is “Jammu & Kashmir Economics & Statistical (Gazetted)

Service” and “Jammu & Kashmir Economics & Statistical (Non-Gazetted) Service”. In addition

to the sanctioned strength of posts there is a provision of 10% reserved quota 6% for training,

1% for deputation and 3% for leave reserve. The total strength of staff in position is 1746 out of

which 1627 are Statistical personnel and 119 non Statistical Personnel.


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10. JHARKHAND

The statistical system of Jharkhand is decentralised with the Directorate of Statistics

and Evaluation (DSE) as the key agency for collection and dissemination of statistics on Jharkhand

and the individual line departments responsible for collection, compilation, processing and

release of the data in their own subject fields. DSE has been declared as a Nodal Statistical

Agency for statistical activities. The line departments with statistical cells are functioning

through their own staff. For example, the Departments of Health, Education, and Forest are

functioning for collection, compilation, analysis and publication of departmental data.

Organizational structure

2. The Directorate of Statistics and Evaluation is responsible for providing the necessary

database for planning in the State. DSE is responsible for collecting the required data directly

through its own functionaries. A major part of the statistical information is being mobilized

with the help of other line departments. The DSE functions administratively under the Planning

Department headed by the Planning Secretary. The DSE has eight functional divisions headed

by an officer of a rank of Deputy Director. It has a three-tier structure: Headquarters, Divisional

Office and District Statistical Office. DSE also has one Block Statistical Supervisor (BSS) in each

community development Block. Out of 194 posts sanctioned, BSS is posted in 139 blocks. The

BSS functions under the technical control of the concerned District Statistical Officer. Line

Departments have their own district and below functionaries

Statistical Activities of DSE

3. The statistical activities of the DSE are given below:

Ø Estimates of SDP, GDP, Capital Formation, Economic-cum-Functional

Classification of State Budget

Ø Wholesale and Retail Prices

Ø Prices of essential commodities

Ø Price in Primary Marketing Centres of Agricultural commodities

Ø Agricultural Wages

Ø Participation in NSS Surveys

Ø Area and production statistics


Ø Civil Registration Scheme

Ø Sample Registration Scheme

Ø Statistical Profile of State

Ø Other miscellaneous work

Ø Annual survey of Industries

Ø Labour & Employment Statistics

Ø Index of Industrial Production


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Ø Economic Census

Ø State Business Register


Ø State level surveys, studies and evaluation

Ø Planning, coordination and publication of data

Ø Library and documentation

Ø Human Resource Development

Ø Electronic Data Processing

Ø Training of Statistical personnel

Ø Administration of Statistical cadre posts in the State and Accounts


The statistical activities of some of the selected Line Departments are mentioned below:

Ø Agricultural Census and regular input surveys

Ø Area production data.

Ø Estimates of production of inland fisheries, landing price and value of

production (monthly and annual); statistics of fishing gear and boats.

Ø Integrated Sample Surveys on Major Livestock Production (Annual)

Ø Livestock Census (5-yearly) (18th Census has been conducted in 2007)

Ø Other regular statistical activities relating to Animal Husbandry, Dairying &

Fisheries.

Ø Dairy Development Programmes and Statistics relating to Dairy Cooperative

Societies on membership, procurement of milk and prices paid to the members

etc.

Ø Collection and supply of data for monitoring the implementation of social welfare

schemes eg, educational concessions, economic upliftment, housing assistance

and others (e.g. improvement of dalit bastis, programme of removal of

untouchabilty, incentives to inter-caste marriages, etc.).

Publications:

4. Some of the publications of line departments are:


1 2 3

1. Fish Production Report Annual

2. Annual Report of Animal Husbandry Annual

3. Annual Special Component Plan Annual

4. Compendium of Various Schemes implemented for theAdhoc

welfare of Backward Classes


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Manpower

5. There is no common statistical cadre at the State level. The selection authority is

Jharkhand Public Service Commission for the posts of Junior Field Inspector, compiler, Junior

Statistical Assistant and Assistant Director. Each department recruits its own staff. However, in

a number of line departments statistical staff has been provided by DSE. Many of the

departments do not have any statistical cell and statistical staff. The statistical staff in DSE and

Line Departments is given below. The Data in DSE includes staff strength of DSE, Range Offices

and District Statistical offices. Staff in Line Departments is deployed from DSE:


1 Statistical Staff in DSE 286

2. DSE Staff in Line Departments 9

3. Staff in Line Departments 224

Total 519


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11. KARNATAKA

The system of official statistics in Karnataka is decentralized. The Directorate of

Economics & Statistics (DES) acts as a ‘Nodal Agency’ and also as an ‘Authority of Reference’

for all statistical activities in the State. The data collection, except to the extent it is covered by

Central legislations like Collection of Statistics Act, Factories Act and Registration of Births and

Deaths Act, and State Laws of an Administrative Nature such as those on registration of Motor

vehicles, etc. is not facilitated by any State legislation. Karnataka’s statistical system comprises

of:

• DES at the State level with headquarters at Bangalore.

• District Statistical Offices across 29 districts. The 29 District Statistical Offices (DSO),

each is headed by the District Statistical Officer and assisted by supporting staff.

Though the DES does not have an exclusive officer below the District level, DES has its presence

in Talukas through its statistical staff at the Taluka level. The Directorate of Economics & Statistics

has nominated the Assistant Statistical Officer as a Nodal Officer for each Taluk for supervision

of all statistical work at the district level. In addition to DES, other line departments in Karnataka

have statistical cells/units in their respective Departments for collection, processing and

releasing the data in their own subject fields and to process and maintain statistical information

for their own and general need.

Organisational of DES

2. DES is under the administrative control of the Department of Planning, Programme

Monitoring & Statistics for all Administrative purposes at the Government level. There are five

Functional Divisions in the State Directorate of Economics & Statistics namely : 1. Agriculture

Statistics Division, 2. Crop Insurance Scheme, 3. Annual Rainfall, Agricultural Census division,

4. State Income, Industries, Prices, Publication & Co-ordination division; 5. Civil Registration,

National Sample Survey and Local Bodies Statistics Division. DES has statistical offices in Districts

and statistical staff at the Taluka level. Some of the Departments have statistical sections.

Statistical Activities

3. The statistical activities of DES are as follows :

Ø Preparation of estimates of State GSDP and Gross Domestic Capital Formation.

Ø Preparation of estimates of District Domestic Product


Ø Participation in NSS Surveys



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Ø Compilation of Index of Industrial Production(IIP)

Ø Compilation of Consumer Price Indices for rural and urban areas

Ø Collection, compilation and tabulation of births and deaths registration,

administering and executing the Civil Registration Scheme of Registrar General

of India.

Ø Activities related to crop area and production statistics

Ø Timely Reporting Scheme (TRS)


Ø Fruits and Vegetables Survey

Ø Agricultural Census and Rainfall Statistics

Ø Municipal Year Book

Ø Collection and Maintenance of Official Statistics by other Departments

Ø Census of Government and Local Bodies Employees

Activities of Some Line Departments:

Ø Collection of Market Rates of Building Material, Wage Rates of Building

Construction Workers

Ø Conduct of Livestock Census, estimation of production of meat, Milk, Egg and

Wool through conduct of Integrated Sample Survey

Ø Conducting of BPL Survey in rural and Urban areas by Good & Civil Supplies

Department

Ø Panchayat Raj statistics by Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department

Ø Local Bodies statistics by Corporation and Directorate of Municipal

Administration

Ø Conducting of Irrigation Census by Irrigation Department

Ø Health, Public Works, Education, Commercial Tax, Excise, Watershed, Slum

Clearance Departments are also carrying out statistical activities which are being

done by the statistical officials in the Line Departments.


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Publication

4. The key statistical publications are listed in the table below:


1 2 3


2. State Administration Report Annual

3. Report on Representation of SC/ST in State Civil Service Annual

4. Report on Medical Certification of Cause of Death Annual

5. Report on Status of Estimation of Agricultural Production in Karnataka Annual

6. State Domestic Product of Karnataka Annual

7. Economic cum Purpose Classification Annual

8. Annual Rainfall Report Weekly,

Monthly,

Annual

9. Report on Crop Estimation Survey Annual

10. Quarterly Economic Review Quarterly

11. Administrative Report of DES Annual

12. Agriculture Census part I – A Report on Operation Holdings

in Karnataka Annual

13. Karnataka at a Glance Annual

14. Report on TRS Annual

15. Crop Estimation Survey on Fruits, Vegetables and Minor Crops Annual

Manpower

5. There is a common statistical cadre at the State level. The service is known as ‘Karnataka

Economic and Statistical Service’ and is under the administrative control of Secretary to

Government, Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics Department, Government of

Karnataka. Director, DES is the nodal officer for official statistics in the State. The total statistical

manpower in position is 1724. Details are as given below:

Sl. No. Organisation/Department Nos.

1 Statistical Staff in DSE(Headquarters, DSO and Talukas) 1067

2. Staff in Line Departments 657

Total 1724


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12. KERALA

The system of official statistics in the State of Kerala is decentralized. Directorate of

Economics and Statistics (DES) is responsible for collection, compilation and dissemination of

statistics on all socio-economic aspects of the State. Directorate has conducted several censuses

to gather information for use in national and state planning process. The decision making

agencies in the government utilize the information provided by this department. The DES Kerala

is the nodal department for all statistical activities in the State. In addition to DES, several line

departments are engaged in statistical activities related to their respective specialized field/

subject. Some of the major departments have their statistical cell. The data collection activities

of DES are facilitated by both (i) Central legislations like Collection of Statistics Act, and

Registration of Births and Deaths Act, and (ii) State legislation – the Cochin Statistics Act XXXIV:

1124 of June 22nd 1949. The Cochin Statistics Act makes collection of statistics mandatory and

has penalty clauses to be invoked against defaulters.


2. In keeping with the three tier government structure, DES has presence in all tiers of

government. DES has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram. DES has fourteen District

Statistical Offices- one in each District. The Deputy Director heads this office. There are Sixty

one Taluk Statistical Offices. The Taluk Statistical Officer heads this office; Primary field workers

for data collection are attached to the Taluk office. DES is under the administrative control of

the Planning and Economic Affairs Department. The Secretary of this Department apart from

being Secretary of DES is also the Member Secretary of the State Planning Board. This facilitates

coordination of statistical activities with other line departments.


3. The specific statistical activities performed by DES include statistical activities related

to :

Ø Estimation of State GSDP and Gross Domestic Capital Formation


Ø Preparation of Economic and Purpose Classification of State Budget


Ø Participation in Annual Survey of Industries

Ø Compilation of Consumer Price Indices for rural and urban areas

Ø Compilation of WPI

Ø Compilation of Index of Industrial Production


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Ø Sample Registration Scheme of Registrar General of India

Ø Estimation of Crop Production

Ø Evaluation Studies

Ø Census of Government and Local Bodies Employees


Ø Economic Censuses

Ø Ad-hoc Surveys

Ø Crop Forecast

Ø Crop Estimation Surveys

Ø Minor Irrigation Census

Ø Census of Land Holdings



Ø Preparation of Economic Survey

Ø Agricultural Statistics – the schemes implemented by the DES are :-

o Crop Area and Production Statistics

o Crop Estimation Survey on Fruits, Vegetables & Major Crops

o Timely Reporting of Estimates of Area & Production of Principal Crops

o General Crop Estimation Survey

o National Agricultural Insurance Scheme

Ø To conduct Censuses

o Agricultural Census (Census of Land Holdings)

o Minor Irrigation Census

o Economic Census (Decennial)

o Census of State Government and Public Sector Employees.


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Ø Collecting and Maintenance Official Statistics

Ø To publish core statistics at regular intervals together with critical analysis


Ø Estimation of Milk, Eggs, Meat and Wool Production

Ø Monthly Statistics on Contagious Diseases, on Slaughter Houses and on Market

Prices of Livestock and Livestock Products.

Ø Estimates of production of inland fisheries, landing price and value of production

Ø Collection of data inland water bodies controlled by State Government

Ø Census of Inland Fisheries.

Ø Weekly and Monthly Statistics on Agricultural situation, weather watch, crop

condition, details on natural calamities.

Ø Collection and compilation of daily weather report, weekly rainfall report,

monthly report on weather condition

Ø Collection of statistical data on land use, land resources

Ø Collection of data on the agricultural commodities like area, production and

price

Ø Collection of statistical details from 11690 Co-operative Societies (in the formats

designed by NABARD)

Ø Publish “Hand Book on Co-operative Movement in Kerala”.

Ø Collection, compilation and transmission of the information on District-wise

area irrigated by different types of Minor Irrigation Schemes.

Ø Inland Water Transport Statistics

Ø Minor Irrigation Statistics

Ø Forest Statistics

Ø Collection and analysis of urban information updating of Town Directories

Ø Urban Slums Statistics

Ø Urban Housing Statistics

Ø Statistics of Public Distribution System in Kerala


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Ø Collection of wholesale and retail prices of essential commodities

Ø Statistical data of foreign and domestic tourists

Ø Tourist Statistics

Ø Handloom & Textiles Statistics

Ø Tax Statistics

Ø Collecting and consolidating the details of scheduled caste students enrolled

from nursery to PHD courses

Publications

4. DES brings out a number of regular and adhoc publications some of which are listed in

the table below:-


1 2 3

1. A look at building material price and wages in Kerala. Annual

2. Report on Aged (> 60 years) Population in Kerala Adhoc

3. Report on Minor Irrigation Adhoc

4. Report on MMR (Two Districts : Kollam and Pallakkad) Adhoc

5. Survey on Private Medical Institutions Adhoc

6. Agricultural Statistics Annual

7. Area of Important Crops in Kerala 1995-2005 Adhoc

8. Cost of Cultivation Annual

9. District-wise report on 6th Agricultural Census Adhoc

10. NSS reports relating to 56th and 57th rounds Adhoc

11. Paddy Cultivation in Kerala 1995 to 2005 Adhoc

12. Panchayat Level Statistics ( For 8 Districts only) Annual

13. Price Statistics of Kerala 2003 and 2005 Adhoc

14. Report on Computer Institutions Adhoc

15. Report on Farm Wholesale Price Adhoc

16. Report on Input Cost in Fisheries Adhoc

17. Report on Input Survey of 6th Agricultural Census Adhoc


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18. Report on NBFCs in Unorganized Sector Adhoc

19. Report on Padasekharams in Kerala Adhoc

20. Report on Residential Vital Rates Adhoc

21. Report on Slaughter Houses in Kerala Adhoc

22. Report on Soil Conservation Adhoc

23. Report on Wholesale Price Index of Manufactured Commodities Adhoc

24. State Domestic Product from 1993-94 to 2004-05 Adhoc

25. Statistics for Planning Annual

26. Vital Statistics Bulletin Annual

Manpower

5. The total statistical manpower staff strength of the Statistical Cadre in position in

DES, and in Line Departments is 2474 out of sanctioned staff strength of 2591. Details are

given below:-

Sl. No. Office Nos.

1. Statistical staff in DES 271

2. Statistical staff in District Statistical Offices 417

3. Statistical staff in Taluk Statistical Offices 1100


Total 2474


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13. MADHYA PRADESH

The Directorate of Economics and Statistics is the main organisation for collection,

dissemination, analysis, and interpretation of data relating to the State. The main activities of

Directorate include conduct of surveys on different topics, Census of Govt. Employees, Economic

Census, Estimation of State/ District Domestic Product, Registration of Births, Deaths and

Marriages, and publication of reports. Individual Line Departments are responsible for collection

and release of data in their own specialized field/subject. Each department recruits its own

staff as there is no common statistical cadre.


2. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics is headed by the Commissioner and it

functions administratively under the Planning Economics and Statistics Department with its

headquarters at Vindhyachal Bhawan, Bhopal. The Department of Planning Economics and

Statistics is headed by a Principal Secretary and supported by a Deputy Secretary in the Planning

Department. Although there are ten Revenue Regions in the State, DES only has 7 Regional

Offices. Out of 50 Districts, there are 48 District Statistical Offices. There is no DSO in the two

newly created Districts of Singroli and Alirajpur, whose statistical activities are looked after by

their parent Districts. DES also has presence in each Community Development Block by way

of one Block Statistical Investigator placed in each Block to cater to the statistical requirements

of the block. The Block Investigator functions under the technical control of the concerned

District Planning Officer. Line departments have their own District and below formations.


3. The statistical activities of DES are as given below:

Ø Estimation of Gross State Domestic Products.

Ø Estimation of Gross Domestic Capital formation.

Ø Estimating District Domestic Products.

Ø Estimating Contribution of Local Bodies.

Ø Economic and Purposes Classification of the State Budget.

Ø Collection of Consumer Prices.


Ø Annual Survey of Industries, compilation of statistical return relating to factories

falling in State and surveyed by NSSO, GOI.


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Ø Civil Registration Scheme of Births & Deaths and Causes of Death.

Ø Scheme of marriage registration, under the compulsory Marriage Registration

Rules, 2008, (Under Special Marriage Act 1954)

Ø Implementation of MLA Local Area Development Scheme and MP Local Area

Development Scheme.


Ø Economic Survey of Madhya Pradesh State highlighting the important

developments in different sectors of the State economy.

Ø Budget in Brief

Ø Conduct of Annual Census of State Government and Local Bodies Employees.


Ø Compilation and Publication like Compendium on Statistics, Madhya Pradesh

and States Economy in Figures.

Ø Collection of Consumer Prices.

Ø Collection of data on housing, prices of building material and wages to

construction labourers.

Ø Collection and publication of official statistics from various departments.

Ø Training of statistical personnel.


Ø Collection and compilation of data on socio-economic indicators of Inter state

Districtwise and Janpad-wise Publication.

Ø Collection and Maintenance of Official Statistics by other Departments.

Statistical Activities of Line Department

Ø Conduct of Agricultural Census (on Quinquennial basis) for estimation of number

of land holdings, area-wise.

Ø Construction of Wholesale Price Index of Agricultural Commodities

Ø “Compendium of Agriculture Statistics” for Madhya Pradesh.

Ø Livestock, Farm Equipment and Fisheries Census.


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Ø Estimates of production of inland fisheries, landing prices and value of

production (monthly and annual);

Ø Catchment assessment surveys on inland fisheries and census of inland fisheries.

Ø Publish Fish Production Report.

Ø Estimation of Milk, Egg, Meat, Wool, etc.

Ø Monthly report on contagious diseases, on slaughter houses and on market

prices of livestock and livestock products.

Ø Social Welfare Statistics.

Publications

4. Publications brought out by DES are as given below:

Publications of DES


1 2 3

1. Economic Survey of Madhya Pradesh Annual

2. Census of Govt. Employees in Madhya Pradesh Annual

3. Budget in Brief of M.P. Annual

4. Economic and Purpose Classification of Budget Annual

5. State Domestic Product Estimates Annual

6. District-wise Socio-Economic Indicators of Madhya Pradesh Annual

7. Interstate Socio-Economic Indicators Gap year

8. Janpadwar Socio-Economic Indicators of M.P. Adhoc

9. Women in Madhya Pradesh Adhoc

10. Compendium of MP Annual

11. Administrative Report of the Department Annual

12. Annual Vital Statistics Annual

13. MP at a Glance Adhoc

14. Agriculture Marketing in MP Adhoc

15. Estimates of Gross Fixed Capital Formation in MP Adhoc

16. Miscellaneous Statistics Adhoc


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17. Annual Reports on Medical Certification of Cause of Death Annual

18. Estimates of District Domestic Products of

M.P. Adhoc

19 Madhya Pradesh Rajya ke Pramukh Ankade. Annual

District Level Publications

20. Zila Sankhyiki Pustika Annual

21. Zile ke Pramukh Ankade Annual

22. Janpad ke Pramukh Ankade Annual

23. Zila Vikas Pustika Annual

Manpower

5. The total sanctioned strength at present of DES is 1064 out of which 700 are in position,

221 at Head Quarter Level and 445 in District Offices. 34 statistical staffs of DES are working

under the Line Departments. Statistical staff is also recruited by the Line Departments for

their own statistical activities. Number of such statistical officials in position in Line Departments

is 1354. Thus the Total Statistical manpower in the State is 2054 as given below:

Statistical manpower in position in DES and Line Departments

Sl. No. Offices Total


2. Statistical Staff of DES in Line Departments 34

3. Statistical Staff in Line Departments recruited by themselves * 1354

Total 2054

* = Based on the information received from the Departments.


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14. MAHARASHTRA

The system of official statistics in Maharashtra is decentralized with the individual Line

Departments being responsible for collection, processing and releasing the data in their own

subject fields, and the Directorate of Economics and Statistics is playing the role of a nodal

agency, in addition to statistical activities in its own sphere. Even so, a few line Departments

like Agriculture, Forests and Health function independently. For instance, the Commissionerate

of Agriculture has been declared as the State Agricultural Statistics Authority. The data collection

except to the extent it is covered by Central Legislations like Collection of Statistics Act and

Registration of Births and Deaths Act, is not facilitated by any State legislation.


2. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) works administratively under the

Department of Planning, headed by the Additional Chief Secretary of the State. DES has 6

Regional Offices – one at each of the Revenue Divisional Headquarters-covering the districts.

At the District level, there are District Statistical Offices (DSOs) constituting the basic field

offices of DES. Out of the 35 districts in the State, there are District Statistical Offices in 31

districts. The work of Hingoli district is looked after by DSO Parbhani and that of Gondia district

by DSO, Bhandara. The DES has no office below the District level. There is, however, one post

of Extension Officer (Statistics) at the Block level, not under DES but under the Panchayat

Department.


3. Statistical activities of DES are as under :

Ø State GSDP and Gross Domestic Capital Formation

Ø District Domestic Product



Ø Price Indices

Ø Sample Registration Scheme of Registrar General of India

Ø Index of Industrial Production

Ø Compilation of District/Taluka level data for local level planning.


Ø Economic Survey of Maharashtra

Ø Budget in Brief


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Ø Economic Census

Ø Census of State Government and Local Bodies Employees

Ø Dissemination of Statistical Information


Ø Coordination of statistical activities


Statistical activities of the Line Departments are given below :

Ø Estimates of production of marine and inland fisheries, landing prices and value

of production (monthly and annual)

Ø Statistics of fishing gear and boats.

Ø Integrated Livestock Surveys (annual) for Estimation of Production of Milk, Eggs,

Meat, Wool, etc.

Ø Livestock Census

Ø Livestock, Farm Equipment and Fisheries Census

Ø Monthly report on contagious diseases, on slaughter houses on market prices

of livestock and livestock products


Publication

4. DES brings out number of regular and adhoc publications. Some of these are brought

out at Regional Office and District levels.


1 2 3

1. Maharashtra Quarterly Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Quarterly

2. Statistical Abstract of Maharashtra State Annual

3. Handbook of Basic Statistics of Maharashtra State Annual

4. Maharashtra’s Economy in Figures Annual

5. Economic Survey of Maharashtra Annual

6. Selected Indicators for Districts in Maharashtra and States in India Annual


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7. Division at a Glance Annual

8. Adivasi Samajic Va Arthic Samalochan Triennial

9. District Socio-Economic Review Annual

10. Municipal Year Book Annual

11. Taluka Niwadak Nirdeshank (Talukawise selected indicators) Annual

Manpower

5. There is a common statistical cadre operated by the DES and is covered by all

Departments. While DES is the cadre controlling authority, selection authority is the MSPC for

Group ‘A’ & ‘B’ posts and DES for others. The total statistical staff strength of DES and Line

Departments is 2389. Apart from DES, statistical staffs are also recruited by the Line Departments

for their own statistical activities such as the Commissionerate of Agriculture, the Office of the

Chief Conservator of Forests, and the Commissionerate of Health have their own elaborate

statistical manpower set up. The details of statistical staff in position in DES and other Line

Departments are given below:

Sl. No. Office Nos.

1. Statistical Staff in Directorate of Economics and Statistics 974

2. Statistical Staff of DES in Line Departments 722

3. Statistical Staff in Line Departments as recruited by themselves 693

4. Total 2389


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15. MANIPUR

The State Statistical System is decentralized. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics

(DES) is the main organisation for collection and dissemination of data relating to the state

while individual line Departments are responsible for collection and release of data with respect

to their specific needs. The DES has its own District Statistical Offices. Line Departments have

their own districts and below formations but not all have statistical staff.

Organisational Structure of DES

2. DES is responsible for conducting the statistical activities as well as for maintaining

statistical standard, providing consultancy and advisory supports to other statistical agencies,

maintaining liaison with various departments, organizations at the Centre, other States and

UTs. DES has its own independent administrative department called the Department of

Economics and Statistics under the control of a Cabinet Minister and Commissioner and

Secretary to the Government of Manipur. At present, DES is functioning from its own

Government building in Lamphelpat at the State Capital, Imphal. DES has its own district set

up in all the nine districts of the state. It is headed by a District Statistical Officer which is

equivalent to the post of Deputy Director of Economics and Statistics. Below the district level,

there is no statistical system in Sub-divisions or Development Blocks.

Statistical Activities

3. Statistical activities of DES are as under:

Ø Estimation of State Domestic Product.

Ø National Sample Survey.

Ø Agriculture Statistics.

Ø Economic Analysis.

Ø Estimation of District Domestic Product.

Ø Impart – Statistical Training.

Ø Co-ordination of statistical activities of other departments.

Ø Computerization of data.

Other Activities of DES

Ø Index Numbers of farm harvest prices of principal crops

Ø Monthly Retail Prices of selected goods and services of District Head Quarters

Markets of Manipur.


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Ø Monthly Prices of Livestock and livestock products from the District Head

Quarters Markets of Manipur

Ø Economic Survey


Ø Fishery Statistics

Ø Livestock Census (Quinquennial)

Ø Integrated Sample Survey on Estimation of major livestock products.

Ø Wholesale Prices of Livestock Products & Livestock Feed

Ø Collection and compilation of other administrative information like number of

veterinary institutions and hospitals, number of operations done, etc.

Ø Data collection of registered SSI units every month from DIC’s.

Ø Updating of Frame list of Registered SSI units from time to time (Frame list

contains information or production, investment) (Plant & Machinery,

employment etc.).

Ø Computerization/data entry work of frame list from time to time in collaboration

with NIC state unit.

Ø Quarterly Progress Report on cumulative number of SSI units granted permanent

registration.

Ø IIP report every month

Ø Conduct SSI Census

Ø Sample survey of SSI units

Publications

4. Publications brought out by DES are given below:


1 2 3

1. Economic Survey, Manipur Annual

2. Price Statistics of Manipur Annual

3. Estimates of SDP Manipur Time Series

4. Manipur Budget in Brief Annual


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5. A Comparative Study of State Taxes Annual

6. Statistical Abstract Manipur Annual

7. Imphal East District at-a-Glance Annual

8. Report on Crop Estimation Survey Manipur Annual

9. A Picture of Manipur Budget Annual

10. Analysis of State Revenue Annual

11. Gender Statistics Manipur Annual

12. Imphal West District at-a-Glance Annual

13. Tamenglong District at-a-Glance Annual

14. Manipur at-a-Glance Annual

15. Population of Manipur (Social Statistical Indicator) Annual

16. Statistical Hand Book, Manipur Annual

17. District Statistical Hand Book, Churachandpur Annual

18. District Statistical Hand Book, Senapati Annual

19. District Statistical Hand Book, Ukhrul Annual

20. Meteorological Data of Manipur Time Series

21. Economic Census (Provisional Results) Manipur State Annual

22 . District Statistical Hand Book of Thoubal Annual

Manpower

5. There is no Common Statistical Cadre. Line Departments recruit statistical personnel

according to their requirements. There is no common statistical cadre in the state controlled

by Directorate of Economics and Statistics. Total statistical staff strength in position in DES is

323. Details are given below:

Sl. No. Office No.


2. Statistical Staff in DSO 197

Total 323


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16. MEGHALAYA

The statistical system in the State is decentralized. Individual line Departments are

responsible for collection, compilation and release of data in their subject fields. At the apex

level is the Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), which is formally responsible for the

coordination of Statistical activities in the State.

Organisation of DES

2. The key components of the State’s Statistical system are:

§ The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) – the apex Statistical

Organisation with seven District Statistical Offices, and presence in all

the 39 Blocks through the DES, Sub-Inspector of Statistics attached to

each of the 39 Community Development Blocks.

§ Statistical Cells in 23 Departments in Meghalaya, which are not under

the administrative or technical control of the DES, Statistical cells of four

of the 23 Government Departments/Organisations have Statistical staff

from the DES on deputation.

The DES is headed by the Director under the Administrative control of the Planning

Department. The Directorate has field functionaries at the District and Community Development

Block levels. There are seven District Statistical Offices headed by District Statistical Officer in

the cadre of Statistical Officer (Gazetted Class-I). There is one Sub-Inspector of Statistics attached

to each of the Community & Rural Development Block.


3. The key Statistical activities of DES are listed below:-

Ø Estimation of State Domestic Product

Ø Estimation of Capital Formation (Public Sector only)

Ø Estimation of GDP

Ø Estimation of Contribution of Local Bodies

Ø Economic-cum-Purpose Classification of Budget

Ø Crop Area and Production Estimates

Ø Participation in National Sample Survey

Ø Price Collection


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Other Activities of DES

Ø Assessing crop loss/damage through estimation of crop yields using crop cutting

experiments on specified crop.

Ø Census of Government Employees and Other Establishments

Ø Conduct Economic Census quinquennially

Ø Estimates of revenue receipts and demands for grants, and annual financial

statement.

Statistical Activities of Select Line Departments

Ø Conducting Agricultural Census quinquennally

Ø Collect and compile data on weather, crops, consumption of fertilizers,

insecticides and pesticides, mechanization and related statistics.

Ø Conducting of Livestock Census quinquennally as part of All India Livestock

Census.

Ø Conduct Integrated Sample Surveys on annual basis for estimates of production

of milk, eggs and wool.

Ø Collection of data on institutional infrastructure, animals treated in Veterinary

hospitals and dispensaries, disease wise vaccinations done and incidence of

diseases.

Ø Rural Development Statistics (It may be mentioned that there is no panchayat

system in Meghalaya)

Ø Conducting BPL surveys once in five years



Ø Collection and Dissemination of Sericulture Statistics.

Publications

4. Following publications are brought out by DES


1 2 3

1. Meghalaya Statistical Handbook Annual


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2. Meghalaya in Figures Annual

3. District Level Statistics Annual

4. Where do we stand in 2007 Meghalaya North /East & India Biennial

& the World

5. Report on Census of Government Employees Annual

6. State Domestic Product of Meghalaya Annual

7. Area Production & Yield of Principal Crops Quinquennial

8. 5th Economic Census 2005 Provisional Report Quinquennial

9. Statistics Abstract Meghalaya Annual

Manpower

5. There is no common Statistical Cadre in the State. Most of the line Departments recruits

their own statistical staff independently. However, the Directorate is in the process of integrating

all Statistical Cell in the State. The Government in the Planning Department has recently declared

this Directorate as the ‘Nodal Agency’. The total statistical staff in position in DES and Line

Departments is as given below :-

Sl. No. Name No.



Total 317


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17. MIZORAM

The Directorate of Economics and Statistics of Mizoram has been recently declared as

Nodal agency by the State Government to coordinate statistical activities of various

Departments/Organisations of the State. The statistical system in the State is decentralized.

Individual line Departments are responsible for collection, compilation, processing, tabulation

and release of data in their respective subject fields.

Organisation of ESD

2. The Secretary Planning & Programme Implementation is the administrative and

technical head of Economics and Statistics Department (ESD) supported by the Director (ESD).

The statistical system of Mizoram has a two tier structure – State and District. At the State

level, the Economics and Statistics Department (ESD) is the apex statistical body. The

Department functions through the Statistical Bureau of Mizoram, which is under the

administrative control of ESD. At the District level, there are District Statistical Offices headed

by a District Research Officer for collection, compilation, preparation, dissemination of statistical

data and conduct of field surveys and census, among other activities. ESD also has a presence

at the Block level, and one Inspector of Statistics from the common statistical cadre is posted

in each Rural Development Block for maintaining block level statistics under the control of the

Department of Rural Development. So far as the Line Departments are concerned, twenty two

major Directorates/Departments of the state have Statistical Cells manned by staff drawn from

the common statistical cadre for collection, compilation, preparation and dissemination of

statistical reports based on surveys and censuses. The Departments with Common Statistical

Cadre staff include Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Art & Culture, Labour &

Employment, Health, Higher & Technical Education, PHE, Public Works Department, Rural

Development, District Rural Development Agency, School Education, Social Welfare, SLMC,

Tourism and Transport, etc.

Statistical Activities of ESD

3. Following statistical activities are performed by ESD:

Ø State Domestic Product Estimates

Ø Births and Deaths Registration

Ø Collection of Price Statistics & Construction of Consumer Price Index (CPI) of

Mizoram

Ø Economic Census

Ø Agriculture Census

Ø Dissemination and Publication


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Ø Collection, compilation and publication of village level statistics of the State.

Ø Collection of Industrial Statistics

Ø Other adhoc Socio-Economic Surveys

Ø Census of Government Employees

Ø ESD also collects data annually on Rainfall, Motor Vehicle Accident, Floriculture,

Hotels & Restaurants Statistics, Personal Services, Building Statistics, and Farm

Harvest.

Statistical Activities of Select Line Departments

The statistical activities of the Line Departments are as under:

Ø Integrated sample survey

Ø Quinquennial Live Stock Census

Ø Collection and compilation of data on Livestock Farms that include cattle

breeding, piggery, and fodder production

Ø Conducting BPL Surveys on an ad hoc basis

Publication

4. ESD publishes number of regular and ad hoc publications as given below

Sl. No. Name of Publication Frequency

1 2 3

1. Statistical Handbook Biennial

2. Mizoram at a Glance Biennial

3. Census of Government Employees Annual

4. Block Statistics Biennial

5. Socio-Economic Review Ad hoc


7. Agriculture Census Quinquennial

8. Hospital Statistics Ad hoc

9. Rainfall Statistics Ad hoc

10. Price Bulletin Quarterly

11. Eco-cum Purpose Classification of Mizoram Budget Ad hoc


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12. Annual Report on RBD Annual

13. Motor Vehicles Accident Ad hoc

14. State Domestic Product Annual

15. Average Prices of Imported Essential Commodities Ad hoc


17. Statistical Hand Book Aizawl District Ad hoc

18. Statistical Hand Book Lunglei District Ad hoc

19. Statistical Hand Book Saiha District Ad hoc

Manpower

5. There is a common statistical cadre in the State. All posts in ESD are filled from the

common cadre. In fact, all vacant posts in statistical cells of line departments are mandatorily

required to be filled in from the common statistical cadre. The total statistical manpower in

position in ESD, DSO’s, and in the Line Departments are 252 as given below:


1. Statistical Staff in Directorate of Economics and Statistics 99


Total 252


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18. NAGALAND


At the State level, Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) is an apex statistical

body and functions as nodal agency for all statistical inquiries, investigation, census and surveys

and coordinates with all the Departments of the State and Central Government on all issues

pertaining to implementation of statistical schemes, etc. DES has its own Department of

Economics & Statistics. The Department is headed by Additional Secretary to the Govt. of

Nagaland under Development Commissioner, Department of Planning and Coordination.

2. At the district level, the District Statistical Officer (DSO) is the head of the District

Statistical Office and is responsible to conduct field surveys, co-ordinates and supervise all

statistical activities with different offices/agencies at the district and lower levels. He is also

the District Registrar of Births and Deaths. A sub-Inspector of Statistics is posted in each of the

21. Rural Development Blocks (out of 52 R.D. Blocks to assist and provide guidance to the

Block Officers in collection and compilation of various statistical data like preparation of village

Directory with the help of Village Level Workers.

Manpower

3. The total statistical staff strength in Directorate of Economics and Statistics is 443.


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19. ORISSA

The system of official statistics in the State of Orissa is decentralized. The Directorate of

Economics and Statistics (DES) is the main organization for collection and dissemination of

data relating to the State while individual line Departments are responsible for collection and

release of data in their own specialized field. DES has been declared as Nodal Agency for

statistical activities. Many Departments like; Health and Agriculture have their own system of

collection, compilation and release of data.


2. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics is an apex statistical organisation of the

State functioning under the administrative control of Planning & Co-ordination Department of

Government of Orissa since 1961. It has a three-tier decentralized structure i.e., the Directorate

is headed by a Director; 3 Range Offices headed by a Deputy Director; and out of 30, 27 District

Statistical Offices headed by a District Statistical Officer, which are responsible for collection

and compilation of primary & secondary data on various socio-economic sectors: agriculture

and allied activities, price, enterprises, minor irrigation, urban & local bodies, etc. There are no

District Statistical Office in 3 District namely Boudh, Jharsuguda and Deogarh. There is also a

training institute namely “Regional Institute of Planning, Applied Economics and Statistics”

(RIPAE&S), which imparts in service training to the statistical personnel working in different

departments of Government and public undertakings. Besides, to strengthen Official Statistics,

IT techniques are being adopted to get online data from all the Government offices. For data

entry and data processing, there is a well equipped Computer Center at DES. There is no

Statistical set up below the District Offices in the State. There is no common statistical cadre in

the State. However, the statistical personnel working in DE&S are from following two cadres:

i. Orissa Statistics and Economic Service Cadre for JD, DD, AD.

ii. Orissa Sub-ordinate Statistics and Economics Cadre for SI, SA and PI.


3. The Statistical activities of DES are listed below:

Ø Estimation of State Gross Domestic Product

Ø Estimation of Capital Formation

Ø Estimating District Domestic Product.

Ø Estimating contribution to Local Bodies.

Ø Participation of Socio-Economic Survey of NSS.


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Ø Annual Survey of Industries/Preparation of IIP.

Ø Economic Review of Orissa highlighting the important developments in different

sector of State economy and publishing it.

Ø Conducting of Annual Census of State Government employees.

Ø Conducting of Economic Census

Ø Implementation of Village Index Card Scheme relating to Socio-economic data

of villages.

Ø Conducting of Ad hoc Surveys as and when required.

Ø Preparing reports on Minor Irrigation Census-State and District level

Ø Administering the Regional Institute of Planning, Applied Economics and

Statistics.

Ø Collection of official statistics from various departments and publishing it.


The Statistical activities of Line Departments are given below:

Ø Maintenance and presentation of Irrigation Statistics.

Ø Publishing of MI book-let every alternate year on a regular basis.

Ø Estimation of Crop Statistics-area coverage, yield, crop damage, irrigation

potential used, socio-economic profile of farm families, agricultural loans and

other agricultural activities.

Ø Receipt of weekly weather watch data and report on statutory basis.

Ø Receipt of fortnightly confidential report on agriculture scenario in the State on

statutory basis.

Ø Collection of natural calamity data on adhoc basis.

Ø Forecast of different Kharif & Rabi crops collected regularly on quarterly basis.

Ø Crop cutting results for Kharif & Rabi during harvesting period.

Ø Irrigation report-half yearly.

Ø Agricultural Statistics.

Ø Conducting of Agriculture Census.


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Ø Monthly reports on contagious diseases, slaughter houses and market prices of

livestock products.

Ø Tourism Statistics on number of tourists staying in different categories of hotels,

tourist arrivals, day visitors to tourist centers, tourist traffic in important tourism

festivals, hotel tariffs.

Ø Half-Yearly Return under Factories Act, 1948.

Ø Quarterly Accident Statistics.

Ø Disease Statistics statement of insured persons, family persons of insured

persons and hospitalization cases.

Publications

4. The following important Statistical publications are brought out by DES on regular basis.


1 2 3

1. District Statistical Hand Book Biennial


3. Statistical Abstract of Orissa Quinquennial

4. States’s Economy in Figures Annual

5. Statistical Outline of Orissa Biennial

6. Economic Survey of Orissa Annual

7. Orissa Budget in Brief Annual

8. An Economic-cum-Purpose Classification of Orissa Budget. Annual

9. Fact Book on Man Power. Quinquennial

10. State Domestic Product at a Glance (F) Annual

11. Technical Report on EARAS Annual

12. Index Numbers of Area, Yield Rate, Production of Principal

Crops in Orissa Ad-hoc

13. Quarterly Bulletin on Price Statistics Quarterly

14. Annual Survey of Industry Annual

15. Municipal Statistical Year Book Annual

16. Census of Employees in Public Sector Quinquennial

17. Climatologically Data in Orissa Adhoc


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18. Technical Report on Crop Estimation Survey on Fruits,

Vegetables & Minor Crops in Orissa Ad-hoc

19. Economic Census (Quinquennial). Report on Minor

Irrigation Census of Orissa. Result at a Glance Quinquennial

Manpower

5. There is no common statistical cadre in the State. However, the statistical personnel

working in DES are from two cadres: Orissa Statistics and Economic Service; and Orissa Sub-

ordinate Statistics and Economics service. The total statistical manpower in both the Directorate

of Economic and Statistics and the Line Departments in position is 3314 as given below:

Statistical manpower in DES and Line Departments

Sl. No. Office Nos.

1 Statistical Staffs in DES 1836

2 Statistical Staffs of DES in Line Departments 167

3 Statistical Staffs in Line Departments as recruited by themselves 1311

Total 3314


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20. PUNJAB

The system of official statistics in Punjab is decentralised with the individual Line

Departments being responsible for collection, processing and releasing the data in their own

subject fields. The Economic and Statistical Organisation (ESO) is playing the role of a nodal

agency. Besides the ESO, about 22 other departments in Punjab have statistical cells/units to

process and maintain statistical information for their own and general need. The data collection,

except to the extent it is covered by Central Legislation like Collection of Statistics Act and

Registration of Births and Deaths Act, is not facilitated by any State legislation.

Organisational Structure of ESO

2. ESO is headed by the Economic Adviser who is assisted by Director, Joint Directors,

Deputy Economic and Statistical Advisers, Research Officers, District Statistical Officers and

Assistant Research Officers. There is a District Statistical Office in each of the districts of the

State headed by a Deputy Economic and Statistical Adviser. There are 20 districts in the State

and the ESO has district level presence through its District Level Officers in all the districts of

the state. ESO is administratively under the control of Economic Adviser.

Statistical Activities of ESO

3. The specific statistical activities performed by ESO include:

Ø Estimation of State GSDP and Gross Domestic Capital Formation



Ø Compilation of Wholesale Price Index

Ø Compilation of Price Indices

Ø Estimating Contribution of Local Bodies


Ø Annual Survey of Industries, compilation of statistical return relating to

factories falling in State and surveyed by NSSO, GOI.

Ø Collection of data on housing, prices of building material and wages to

construction labourers and index of Housing Construction Cost.

Other Statistical Activities of ESO

The other Statistical activities of ESO are:

Ø Publication of Statistical Abstract, of Punjab State.

Ø Economic Survey of Punjab State highlighting the important developments in

different sectors of the State economy


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Ø Budget in Brief

Ø Preparation of Municipal Year Book containing data in respect of Municipal

Corporations and Municipalities of the State.

Ø Conducting of Annual Census, State Government and Local Bodies

Employees.

Ø Conducting of Five-Yearly Economic Census


Ø Monitoring of MPLAD Scheme

Ø Data Collection on physical achievements under the 20 Point Programmes



Some of the statistical activities of line departments are as under:

Ø Estimates of production of inland fisheries, landing price and value of

production (monthly and annual); fingerlings produced & distributed boats

Ø Catchment assessment surveys on inland fisheries

Ø Census of Inland Fisheries

Ø Integrated Livestock Surveys (annual) to estimate the annual production

mainly of milk, eggs and meat

Ø Livestock Census (5 yearly)(17th Census has been conducted in 2003)

Ø Livestock, Farm Equipment and Fisheries Census

Ø Monthly report on contagious diseases, on slaughter houses, and on market

prices of livestock and livestock products


Publication

4. The ESO compiles and publishes statistics on various economic and social aspects of

the State on the basis of data of its own activities as well as those of their Line Departments.

The list of regular publications is given below:


1 2 3

1. Statistical Abstract of Punjab Annual

2. Economic Survey of Punjab Annual


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3. Punjab-at-a Glance Annual

4. Village Directories; District-wise Annual

5. Block-at-a-Glance; District-wise Biennial

6. Estimates of State Income of Punjab Annual

7. Critical Economic Indicators-Punjab V/S India Annual

8. Consumer Price Index Numbers for Working Class Monthly

9. Wholesale Price Bulletin Monthly

10. Agricultural Labour Wages and Rural Retail Prices Monthly

11. Economic and Purpose Classification of the Budget

Expenditure of Punjab Govt. Annual

12. Economic and Functional Classification of Municipal

Budgets in Punjab Annual

13. Statistics of Public Finance in Punjab Annual

14. Municipal Statistics of Punjab Annual

15. Census of Punjab Government Employees and

Semi-Government Employees Annual

16. Tehsil-wise Irrigation, Floods and Water Logging

Statistics of Punjab Annual

17. Energy Statistics of Punjab Annual

18. Farm Accounts in Punjab Annual

19. Family Budgets of Selected Cultivators in Punjab Annual

20. Industrial Statistics of Punjab (based on ASI data) Annual

21. Index of Industrial Production (Base 1975-76) Annual

Manpower

5. The total Statistical manpower in position in DES and in Line Departments is 902 as

given below:

Statistical manpower in position

Sl. No. Office Nos.



Total 902


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21. RAJASTHAN

The system of official statistics in Rajasthan is decentralized. Line Departments are

responsible for collection, processing and releasing the data in their own subject fields and

functions independently. Directorate of Economics and Statistics plays the role of a nodal agency,

in addition to Statistical activities within its purview. The data collection, except to the extent

it is covered by central legislations like; Collection of Statistics Act and Registration of Births

and Deaths Act, is not facilitated by any State legislation.


2. The Directorate of Economics & Statistics Rajasthan functions under the administrative

control of Planning & Statistics Department of the Government of Rajasthan. Directorate of

Economics & Statistics is headed by a Director who is also the ex-Officio Deputy Secretary to

the Government. The Director is the Nodal Authority for all statistical work in the State and

also functions as:

• Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths

• State Agricultural Statistics Authority (SASA)

• Officer on special duty for Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), National Sample Survey

(NSS) and Survey for Implementation of Agricultural Statistics.

• Controlling Authority for Rajasthan Statistical Subordinate Services.

The present Director also holds additional charge of the post of Dy. Secretary, Plan

Finance in the Planning Department. DES has district level presence through its District Statistical

Offices (DSOs) in each of the 32 Districts of the State. The District Collector is the Controlling

Authority for the District Statistical Office. The District Offices are located in the District

Collectorates. A District Statistical Officer heads the District Statistical Office, and is supported

by Statistical Assistants, Statistical Inspectors, Computers and other Ministerial Staff. The

number of staff in each District varies according to the workload in terms of number of General

Crops Estimation Survey (GCES), Factories for ASI, and samples of NSS, among others.


3. The major statistical activities of DES are as under:

Ø Estimation of State Gross Domestic Products.

Ø Estimation of Gross Domestic Capital Formation.

Ø Estimating District Domestic Products



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Ø Economic & Purpose Classification of the State Budget.

Ø Economic Review of Rajasthan highlighting the important developments in

different sectors of the State economy

Ø Budget Study and Budget at a Glance (Budget in Brief)

Ø Census of State Government and Local Bodies Employees.

Ø Preparation of agricultural indices on the basis of methodology given by the

DES, Ministry of Food & Agriculture: Area, Production, Productivity, Farm

Harvest Prices, Net Area Sown, Gross Area Sown, Gross Irrigated Area and

Index of Agricultural Wages

Ø Implementation of the scheme of Improvement of Crop Statistics in

collaboration with the field office of the NSSO.

Ø Collection of consumer prices

Ø Compilation of Index for Housing Construction


Ø Economic Census

Ø Annual Survey of Industries, compilation of statistical return relating to

factories falling in state and surveyed by NSSO, GOI.

Ø Compilation of IIP

Ø Civil Registration Scheme of Births & Deaths and Causes of Deaths.

Ø Collection of official statistics from various departments and publishing it.

Ø Human Development Research

Ø Training of statistical personnel.



Ø Agriculture -Preparation of Forecast of area sown statistics on area &

productivity of High Yielding Varities Seed, soil treatment adoption, use of

seeds and fertilizers, estimation of crops damages, etc.

Ø Road Transport Statistics

Ø Conducting Agriculture Census


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Ø Social Justice & Empowerment – Social Welfare Statistics

Ø Food and Civil Supply- Statistical : statistics on fair price shops, ration cards,

allotment and lifting of essential commodities

Ø Cooperative data of all cooperatives institutions regarding cooperative

movement

Ø Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) (Planning Department) – Data regarding the

WB and other Externally aided project

Ø Local Self and Urban Development – Income and expenditure statistics of

local bodies

Ø Commercial Taxes – Data on revenue receipts, tax assessment and related

parameters like production and sale of manufacturers

Ø Industries – collection of data on unregistered units, number of industrial

units by Rajasthan Finance Corporation (RFC), data on interest subsidy /

incentive schemes, Khadi Village and Handloom industries

Ø Rural Development – Statistics pertaining to 22 schemes of rural

development including centrally sponsored schemes

Ø Tourism – Collection of statistics of domestic and foreign tourist arrival and

tourist accommodation

Ø Irrigation – Potential for irrigation created under various major, medium and

minor irrigation schemes

Ø Mines and Geology – Collection of statistics relating to mining activities

Ø Animal Husbandry – conduct of Livestock Census and related statistics

Ø Board of Revenue –Crop Forecast, Agricultural statistics, Livestock Census,

Land Record Statistics

Ø Panchayati Raj- Socio-economic and infrastructure statistics, Implementation

and Monitoring of developmental schemes

Ø Chief Planning Officer Cell (Districts) – District profiles and plan formulation

Ø Election Statistics


Ø Education statistics


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Ø Medical and Health Statistics

Ø Civil Works and Road Statistics


Ø Forest – Forest Area and Produce Statistics

Ø Women Empowerment

Ø Child Development

Ø Disaster Management/Relief

Ø Power and Electricity – Generation and Consumption of electricity

Publication

4. The principal publications of DES are listed below:

S.No Name of publication Periodicity

1 2 3

1. Statistical Abstract, Rajasthan Annual

2. Basic Statistics, Rajasthan Annual

3. District Statistical Outline (32 Districts) Annual

4. Socio-Economic Statistics Annual

5. Agricultural Statistics Annual

6. Economic Review, Rajasthan Annual

7. Some Facts About Rajasthan Annual

8. Annual Vital Report Annual

9. Report on Timely Reporting Scheme of Estimating Area

under Principal Crops in Rajasthan (All Seasons) Annual


11. Comparative Study of States Finances Annual

12. Classification of State Budget Annual

13. Census of State Govt. Employees Annual

14. Budget at a Glance, Rajasthan Annual

15. Budget Study, Rajasthan Annual

16 Right to Information, Act Annual


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17. Agricultural Statistics of Rajasthan Adhoc

18. Wholesale Prices Indices Rajasthan Adhoc

19. Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers Adhoc

20. Report on Index Numbers of Industrial Production, Rajasthan Adhoc

21. Economic Census, Report Rajasthan Adhoc

22. Women and Men in Rajasthan Adhoc

23. Some Development Facts of Rajasthan Adhoc

24. Inter State Economic Indicators Adhoc

25. Population Facts & Figures, Rajasthan Adhoc

26. State Domestic Product, Rajasthan Adhoc

27. Estimates of Net District Domestic Product Adhoc

28. Financial Structure and State Domestic Product of Rajasthan Adhoc

Manpower

5. Total Statistical staff strength of DES and other departments in position is 1745.


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22. SIKKIM

The statistical system in the state is decentralized. The Directorate of Economics and

Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation (DESME) is the apex statistical organization in the State.

Thirteen departments have established statistical units/cells with staff drawn from the common

statistical cadre. The Department of Agriculture also has a statistical cell but has its own statistical

staff who are not from the common statistical cadre. There are three DSOs of DESME.

Organization of DESME

2. The Director is head of DESME. He is under the administrative control of Development

Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary, Development Planning, Economic Reforms and North

East Council Affairs Department. The Director is assisted by one Joint Director, One Additional

Director, three Deputy Directors and Seven Assistant Director on technical side, one Joint

Secretary and one Under Secretary with supporting staff on establishment and account officer

and staff accounts side. There are four districts in the state. District Statistical Offices have

been created in 3 districts viz. District statistical office Mangan/North, Namchi/South and

Gyalsing/West. There is no District Statistical office in East District at Gangtok. However, the

Head office DESME looks after District Statistical office work of East District. There is no uniform

staffing pattern in the Districts. The West and South district Statistical Offices are in the cadre

of Deputy Director, while North District Statistical Office is in the cadre of Assistant Director.

Statistical Activities of DESME

3. The Key activities of DESME are as under:

Ø State Domestic Product Estimates

Ø Compilation of Consumer Price Index Numbers for industrial workers

Ø Participation in the surveys of National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO).

(Field Survey, Tabulation and pooling).


Ø Rural Price Statistics and Prices of Building Materials

Ø Monitoring and Evaluation of all project being implemented in the state.

Ø Basic statistics for Rural level Developments

Ø Identification of Below Poverty Level households and issuance of certificates

Ø Urban Statistics Human Resource Assessment (USHA)

Ø Conduct of Socio Economic Census


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Ø Miscellaneous Census and Survey as and when required in all economic and

social fields.

Activities of Line Departments

Ø Health, Morbidity and Family Welfare Statistics




Ø Birth and Death registration and Population

Ø Electricity production and Distribution Statistics

Ø Environment and forest Statistics


Ø Statistics for local area Planning

Ø Conduct of livestock census quinquennially as part of All India Livestock Census

carrying out Integrated Sample Surveys on annual basis. On the basis of this

survey, estimates of milk production and of eggs are arrived at every year.

Ø Statistical profile of SC (1996).

Ø Statistical Profile of ST (1996).

Ø Compendium of Achievements.

Ø Maintains statistics relating to tasks of procurement, storage, distribution.

Network of Public Distribution System (PDS), price control of PDS and other

essential commodities.

Ø Conduct of Minor Irrigation Census every fourth year.

Ø Collection of data on all ongoing schemes.

Publications

4. The following publications are brought out regularly :


1 2 3

1. Monthly Price Bulletin of Sikkim Monthly

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2. Consumer Price Index Adhoc

3. State Domestic Product Annual

4. Statistical Profile Annual

5. Sikkim at a Glance Annual

6. Sikkim and North Eastern States, Statistical Abstract Adhoc

Manpower

5. The State of Sikkim has common statistical cadre. Thirteen departments have availed

these services of statistical staffs from the common statistical cadre. Only one major department

i.e. Agricultural Department does not have staff from the common statistical cadre. It has

appointed independent statistical personnel to manage the statistical work of the department.

The total statistical manpower in position is 126 out of which 126 are from common statistical

cadre. The detail is given below:

Sl. No. Office No.

1. Statistical Staffs in DESME 62


Total 126


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23. TAMILNADU

The System of Official Statistics in the State of Tamil Nadu is decentralized. Department

of Economics and Statistics (DES) is responsible for Collection, Compilation and Dissemination

of statistical data on all Socio-Economic aspects of the State. The Department of Economics

and Statistics has been declared as “Nodal Agency” for collection of Statistics. In addition to

the Department of Economics and Statistics, several other line departments in the State are

also engaged in statistical activities related to the respective specialized field for subject. Each

Department recruits its own staff as there is no common statistical cadre. The major

departments who recruit its statistical staffs are Agriculture, Horticulture, Fisheries, Rural

Development, Co-operation, Transport, Commercial Tax and Planning Commission. Many other

Departments viz., Health, Animal Husbandry, Forest, Labour and other State Government

Undertakings are employing their own personnel for furnishing statistical details to the

administration. The data collection is not facilitated by any state legislation like Registration of

Births and Deaths Act.


2. The present Statistical System in Tamil Nadu is headed by a Senior Indian Administrative

Service cadre Officer who is assisted by one Additional Director, 4 Joint Director of Statistics, 5

Deputy Director of Statistics, 46 Assistant Director of Statistics within the Department comprising

of the total 56. In addition to this, the Statistical Cells in several other departments are also

being manned by Statistical Personnel numbering to 60. Field Officers of the Department of

Economics and Statistics are available at Block, Divisions and Districts levels. There is also a

“State Statistical Committee” to strengthen the Inter- Departmental Co-ordination in matter

of Statistical Development.

Statistical Activities of Department of Economics and Statistics


Ø To estimate the State Domestic Product

Ø To estimate District Domestic Product

Ø To estimate the Annual Gross Fixed Capital Formation for Tamil Nadu in both

Private and Public Sectors

Ø To conduct/Participation in NSSO Surveys

Ø To Conduct Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) covering Mining, Manufacturing

and Electricity Sectors

Ø To Compile Wholesale Price Index for Tamil Nadu (both Agricultural and Industrial

Commodities)

Ø To Release the Consumer Price Index Number for Cuddalore and Nagercoil under

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Ø To Release the Consumer Price Index for selected essential items in Rural Tamil

Nadu

Ø To release advance / final estimates reports regarding season-wise area and

production of important crops

Ø To present detailed district-wise facts and figures pertaining to agriculture

Ø Improvement of Crop Statistics

Ø To estimates Area & Production of Principal Crops under Timely Reporting

Scheme

Ø Crop Estimation Survey on Fruits and Vegetables

Ø To estimate average yield per hectare and production of certain minor crops

at the District

Ø Economic and purposive classification of Tamil Nadu Government budget and

budgets of Local Bodies

Ø Preparation of Budget

Ø To conduct Agricultural Census

Ø To conduct Minor Irrigation Statistics

Ø To Conduct Economic Census

Ø To conduct Quick Surveys recently for THADCO

Ø Rainfall Statistics

Statistical Actives of Line Departments

Statistical activities of some of the line Departments are:

Ø Health Statistics relating to maternity and Child Health services,

immunization and control of communicable diseases

Ø Municipal Statistics

Publication

4. DES brings out number of regular and ad-hoc publications which are listed below:

Sl.No. Name of the Publication / Report Periodicity

1 2 3

1. Index Number of Industrial Production for Tamil Nadu Monthly

2. Handloom -Report Monthly

3. Quarterly Statistical Abstract of Tamil Nadu Quarterly

4. Handloom-Report Annual


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5. New Series of State Domestic Product – Tamil NaduBase Year :

(1999-2000) – 1999-2000 to 2005-06. Annual

6. 7th Agricultural Census 2000-01 –Tamil Nadu

( Part-I, Part-II & Part-III ) Quinquennial

7. Monthly Index of Industrial Production

(Base year: 1993-94=100) Monthly

8. National Sample Survey – 57th Round – Unorganized

Sector Report Annual

9. National Sample Survey – 60th Round – Schedule-10

(January-June2004) Report on Employment and

Unemployment Situation in Tamil Nadu. Annual

10. Annual Statistical Abstract of Tamil Nadu Annual

11. Estimates of State Domestic Product of Tamil Nadu Annual

12. State District Domestic Product – 1999-2000 to 2006-07 Annual

13. National Agriculture Insurance Scheme Annual

14. Tamil Nadu at a Glance Annual

15. Statistical Handbook of Tamil Nadu Annual

16. Improvement of Crop Statistics Annual


18. National Sample Survey Report on morbidity health

care and the condition of the aged. Annual

19. Timely Reporting Scheme Annual

20. Fifth Economic Census of Tamil Nadu Quinquennial

21. Season and Crop Report Annual

22. Marketable Surplus Report Annual

Manpower

5. There is a common statistical cadre in the State. The Service is called the Tamil Nadu

Statistical Service. The Cadre controlling authority is the Department of Planning, Development

and Special Initiatives, which is the Administrative Department for Department of Economics

and Statistics. The number of Officers/Professionals working in Department is 56. In addition

to this, the Statistical Cells in several other Line Departments are also being manned by Statistical

Personnel numbering to 60. So the total professional categories of the Statistical personnel in

the State are 116. Besides this, 215 Intermediates along with 1109 Primary Workers are also

working in the State. The Total Staff strength in position spread throughout the State is 1440.


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24. TRIPURA

The Statistical System in the State of Tripura is decentralised. The Directorate of

Economics & Statistics (DES) is responsible for collection, compilation, analysis and

dissemination of various types of statistics. The DES also coordinates with the statistical

organizations of Central Government especially with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme

Implementation. Since 1986, Directorate of Economics and Statistics has been working as nodal

agency for all statistical activities. The Line Departments are responsible for collection and

release of data in their own specialized field/subject. Every department recruits its own staff

as there is no common statistical cadre.

Organsiation of DES

2. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics is the apex Statistical Organsiation in the

State under the administrative control of Secretary, Planning Department. The DES has District

Statistical Offices in all four Districts, viz; District Statistical Office at West Tripura, south Tripura,

North Tripura and Dhalai District. Below the district set-up, there is a Statistical Cell in all

Sub-divisional Magistrate’s Offices of Tripura. The Cell is involved in conducting of census and

collection of price statistics on regular basis.

Statistical Activities of DES:

3. The key statistical activities of DES and Select Line Departments are given below:


Ø Participation in National Sample Survey for both Central and State Samples.

Ø Price Collection & CPI

Ø Publication of Official Statistics

Ø Economic Review

Ø Conducting Economic Census

Ø Compilation of Consumer Price Index Number for middle class employees

Ø Collection of Wholesale Prices of fifteen selected commodities

Statistical Activities of Select Line Departments:

Ø Conducting Agriculture Census quinquennially

Ø Collecting and compile data on weather, crops, consumption of fertilizers,

insecticides and pesticides, mechanization and related statistics


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Ø Conducting of Livestock Census quinquennially as part of All India Livestock

Census

Ø Conducting Integrated Sample Surveys on annual basis for estimates of

production of milk, eggs and wool

Ø Collection of data on institutional infrastructure, animals treated in veterinary

hospitals and dispensaries, disease wise vaccinations done and incidence of

diseases

Ø Panchayat and Rural Development statistics

Ø Conducting BPL surveys once in five years



Ø Forestry Statistics

Ø Health related statistics

Ø Fishing Statistics

Ø Collection and dissemination of sericulture statistics

Ø Collection and compilation of health related statistics

Ø Collection and compilation of live registrant

Publications:

4. Following publications are brought out by DES


1 2 3

1. Economic Review of Tripura Annual

2. Some Basic Statistics of Tripura Annual

3. Statistical Abstract of Tripura Annual

4. Tripura at a Glance Annual

5. State Domestic Product of Tripura Adhoc

6. CPI for Middle Class Employees Half-Yearly

7. Half Yearly Price Bulletin of Average Retail Prices in Rural

Markets of Tripura Half-Yearly


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8. Half Yearly Price Bulletin of Wholesale & Retail Prices in Annual

Urban Markets of Tripura

Manpower

5. The total statistical manpower in DES, DSO and in the Line Departments is given below:

Sl. No. Office No.

1 Statistical staff in DES 172

2 Statistical staff in Line Departments 145

Total 317


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25. UTTAR PRADESH

Uttar Pradesh (UP) has a system of collection, compilation and analysis of statistical

data that cuts across various departments of the government. While the Directorate of

Economics and Statistics (DES) of the State Planning Institute has been declared the nodal

organization for all statistical activities in the State, and is responsible for a wide range statistics.

There are statistical as well as non-statistical units in different line Departments engaged in

collection, compilation and analysis of data in their own spheres of responsibility. The data

collection, except to the extent it is covered by Central legislations like Collection of Statistics

Act, Factories Act and Registration of Births and Deaths Act, and State laws of an administrative

nature such as those on registration of motor vehicles, etc., is not facilitated by any State

legislation. The Director of DES plays a nodal role in collection, processing and release of

statistical data in the state. But the line departments like Agriculture, Forestry and Health

function independently for collection of statistics relating to their departmental activities.


2. The Economics and Statistics Division of the State Planning Institute operates through

a network of 17 Divisional Offices and 70 District Economic and Statistical Offices. It functions

administratively under the State Planning Institute chaired by the Principal Secretary, Planning.

The DES has 17 Divisional Offices – one each at the Divisional headquarters. The divisional

offices were created in 1979 for supervision of statistical activities in Districts. These offices

are headed by a senior officer of the rank of Deputy Director of Economics & Statistics. The DES

has 70 District Economics and Statistical Offices (DESOs) at the district level. The DES also has

a presence in Blocks, and there is one post of Assistant Development Officer (Statistics) in each

Development Block. This post is cadred to the Economic and Statistical Services.


3. The specific statistical activities performed by DES include:

Ø Estimating State GSDP and Gross Domestic Capital Formation

Ø Estimating District Domestic Product


Ø Participation in State sample and bringing out reports for NSS


Ø Consumer Price Indices for rural and urban areas.

Ø Collection, maintenance and publication of secondary data

Ø Index of Agriculture Production


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Ø Economic Censuses (once in five years)

Ø Ad-hoc Surveys

Ø Electronic processing of data

Ø Classification of economic and work related income expenditure of Local Bodies

Ø Quarterly Industrial Production Index

Ø Wage Index

Ø Index of Agriculture Parity

Ø Income expenditure and capital expenditure of Local Bodies, cleanliness and

classification of employment

Ø Collection of data for Government of India

Ø Software development and training

Ø State Income Estimates

Ø Uttar Pradesh Economic Review

Ø Community Development Report on Monthly Basis

Ø Uttar Pradesh Ek Jhalak.

Manpower

4. At present, there is no common statistical cadre in the State but the Finance Department,

Government of U.P. has issued a Government Order in this regard. As per the Government

Order, all the departments having number of posts less than ten in the statistical cadre, the

personnel against the posts falling vacant will be made available by DES on the basis of service

transfer. Total Statistical Staff strength in the Directorate of Economics & Statistics and Line

Departments in position is 4731 as given below:

Statistical manpower of the DES and Line Departments

Sl. No. Office Total



Total 4731


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26. UTTARAKHAND

The statistical system in Uttarakhand is decentralized, wherein Line Departments are

responsible for collection, processing and releasing data relating to their domain. The Directorate

of Economics and Statistics plays the role of a nodal agency. Some of the Departments namely;

Agriculture, Forests, Education, Industry, Health, etc., have well organised statistical cells. There

exists a very good network of statistical set up under aegis of the Directorate of Agriculture

and the Chief Revenue Commissioner, Uttarakhand, which is declared as the State Agricultural

Statistics Authority (SASA). Similarly, the Director General Health Services that is declared as

the Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths in the State has a strong statistical set up in their

system. Forest Department of the State has also a very rich Statistical Cell named as Forests

and Environment Statistics. Various other line Departments, those have their own District and

subordinate Regional Units have put their deputed statistical staff in their own statistical Cell.


2. Presently, the Additional Secretary to the Government, Department of Planning is

functioning as In-charge Director. However, for all practical purposes there are senior officers

i.e. an Additional Director and two Joint Directors, posted in the Directorate. They look after all

administrative, financial, technical and specialized statistical functions of the Directorate. Under

the supervision and guidance of these directors, specific statistical activities within the

Directorate are being looked into through respective Economic and Statistics Officers. The

Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) has Regional Units in each of the Districts and

Division. It is under the administrative control of the Department of Planning headed by the

Secretary to the Government.

There are two Divisional Offices of DES viz Gharwal Divisional Office headed by a Joint

Director who supervises the statistical activities of seven DESO and Kumaun Divisional Office

headed by a Deputy Director who supervises the statistical activities of six DESOs. The DES has

its district level presence through its District Economic and Statistics Offices, one in each of the

13 districts. These offices are headed by a District Economic and Statistics Officer. The activities

of DESOs are coordinated and supervised at the intermediate level by the concerned Divisional

Office. The DES also has its presence in each of the 95 Community Development Blocks spread

in the State. The Post of Assistant Development Officer (Statistics) is created in each of the

Development Blocks. ADO (statistics) functions under the control of the DESO and looks after

the collection, compilation and summarization of development and socio economic statistics

collected by the Village Development Officers. He/ She passes it to the concerned DESO.


3. Statistical activities performed by DES are as given below:

Ø Collection of official statistics and conduct of socio-economic studies of

current interest.


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Ø Collection of data through censuses and surveys and undertake studies on such

matters for which official statistics do not exist or are inadequate and to analyse

such data that leads to providing some statistical outputs.

Ø Bringing out statistical publications

Ø Coordinating the work of statistical cells functioning in different departments

of the State Government and extending them technical guidance from time to

time.

Ø Acting as liaison agency between the State and Central Government on Statistical

matters

Ø Acting as a ‘Nodal Agency’ and as an ‘Authority of Reference’ for all statistical

activities in the State

Ø Assisting the Planning Department in the planning process on matters referred

to the DES by the Department

Ø Advising the State Government on various statistical activities

Ø Acting as member of various committees constituted by the State or Central

Governments as far as it relates to statistics or a subject matter having its

relevance to statistical activities in the state.


Ø Economic Survey of Uttarakhand State highlighting the important development

activities and achievements under different sectors of the State economy

Ø Preparation of Municipal Statistical Year Book containing data in respect of

Municipal Corporations and Municipalities of the State.

Ø Conducting Census of Employees working under the State Government and Local

Bodies.

Ø Conducting of Economic Census at five-year intervals

Ø Review of 20 Point Programme

Ø Collection of data on stock of housing and cost of building materials

Ø Collection of official statistics from different sources and publishing the same


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Ø Conducting ad-hoc surveys / collection and compilation of socio-economic data

Ø Compilation of data for preparation and publication of Statistical Abstract,

Handbook of Basic Statistics of Uttarakhand and State’s Economy in Figures.



4. The line Departments do undertake statistical activities and produces statistical outputs

by way of organizing statistical cells of their own. The important official statistics being collected

by the line departments is, more or less, incorporated in the publications of the DES. However,

some of the statistical publications of the line departments are also useful to the researchers

and academicians. Statistical data related to Uttarakhand can be visualized on the state web

site: www:uttara.in and http://gov.ua.nic.in

Principal Publications of DES

5. Though DES is preparing varieties of documents, each one is not published. Further,

there are lots of publications prepared by the DES in the past. However, a list of principal

publications of the DES is as follows:

Publications of DES and their periodicity


1. 2 3

2. Uttarakhand Statistical Diary Annual

3. Uttarakhand at a Glance Annual

4. Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh – A comparative study

of Development Occasional

5. Estimates of State Domestic Product of Uttaranchal Annual

6. Pricing of Building Materials and Labour Wages Annual

7. Annual Survey of Industries- Uttaranchal Annual

8. Socio-Economic Review Annual

9. Economic Census 5 yearly

10. Wages of PWD Annual

11. Census of Employees Annual

12. Progress under Twenty Point Programme Monthly/

Annual


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13. Physical and Financial Progress under District Plan Monthly/

Annual

14. NSS Report Round-wise

15. Statistics Related to Local Bodies Annual

16. Levels of Development of Districts of Uttrakhand Occasional

Statistical Manpower

6. Statistical manpower of the DES and Line Departments, in position is as follows:

Statistical manpower of the DES and Line Departments

Sl.No. Office Total

1. Statistical staff in DES 122


Total 317


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27. WEST BENGAL

The system of official statistics in West Bengal is decentralized with the Bureau of Applied

Economics & Statistics (BAE&S) having responsibility for coordinating all statistical activities in

the State. The BAE&S is not the nodal statistical agency. The individual line Departments are

responsible for collection, processing and release of data in their own fields. Most of the Line

Departments like Agriculture, Health, Education, Fisheries, Animal Resources and Development,

etc. are functioning independently for collection and publication of departmental data. Each

department recruits its own staff as there is no common statistical cadre.

Organisation of BAE&S

2. The State Statistical System has three tiers; BAE&S Headquarters, District Statistical

Offices of BAE&S in 19 Districts, and Statistical Units in some line Departments. There are no

regional offices of BAE&S. The BAE&S does not have any staff in the Community Development

Blocks. There are 5 divisions in BAE&S and each headed by a Deputy Director and their work is

supervised by the Additional Director. The BAE&S functions administratively under the

Development and Planning Department headed by the Principal Secretary.

Statistical Activities of BAE&S

3. The key statistical activities of BAE&S are as under:


Ø Estimating District Domestic Product

Ø Estimation of Gross Fixed Capital Formation


Ø Economic and Purposive Classification of the State Budget

Ø Collection of wholesale and retail prices and preparation of Wholesale Price

Index and Consumer Price Index

Ø Participating in National Sample Survey in their different rounds on matching

basis

Ø Participating in Annual Survey of Industries

Ø Estimation of Production of 19 major crops by conducting Crop Cutting

Experiments

Ø Estimation of Marketable surplus of Paddy, Wheat, Mustard, Potato & Maskalai

Ø Analyzing the Income & Expenditure of all Municipalities & Municipal


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Corporations and all State Govt. Undertakings of the State and publishing of

the same

Ø Preparation of Index of Industrial Production

Other Statistical activities of BAE&S

Other statistical activities are as follows :

Ø Economic Review of West Bengal along with a Statistical Appendix high-lighting

the important developments in different sectors of the State Economy

Ø Conduct of Annual Census of State Government Employees

Ø Economic Census

Ø Collection of official statistics from various Departments

Ø Compilation and publication of data in various publications like Statistical Hand

Book (State as well as District level) and Statistical Abstract

Ø Training of statistical personnel



Ø Monthly collection of information on veterinary hospitals, dispensaries, sub-

dispensaries, artificial insemination centers and sub-centres; and mobile

dispensary

Ø Livestock Census

Ø Conducting of Integrated Livestock Survey for estimation of production of major

livestock products such as milk, egg, meat and wool

Ø Annual Forest Report of the State

Ø Hand Book on Fisheries Statistics

Ø Census of Small Scale Units

Ø Collection of information from SSI units on investment, type of activity and

employment through the District Industries Centres

Ø Education Statistics at Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary level

Ø Collection of Health Statistics


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Ø Tourist Statistics

Ø Collection of Health Statistics

Publications

4. List of publications is given below:


1 2 3

Reports Brought out by Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics

1. Reports on Annual Survey of Industries Annual

2. New Series on Monthly Index of Industrial Production Ad-hoc

3. Statistical Hand Book of West Bengal Annual

4. Statistical Hand Book for 19 Districts of West Bengal Annual

5. Monthly Price Situation Report (Kolkata Centre only) Monthly

6. Report on Census of State Govt. Employees Annual

7. Municipal Statistics of West Bengal Annual

8. Hand Book of State Government Undertakings Annual

9. Economic Review of West Bengal (Vol.-I and Vol. -II) Annual

10. Statistical Abstract of West Bengal Annual

11. Handbook of Sate Govt. Undertakings in West Bengal Annual

12. Estimates of State Domestic Product & District Domestic

Product of West Bengal Annual

13. Municipal Statistics of West Bengal Annual

14. Provisional Report on the 5th Economic Census, West Bengal Quinquennial

15. Human Development Report of West Bengal (Published by

State Planning Board, Sold from B.A.E & S) Adhoc

16. Employment & Unemployment Situation in West Bengal

(NSS-55th Round) Adhoc

17. Level & Pattern of Consumer Expenditure in WB

(NSS-55th Round) Adhoc

18. Condition of Urban Slums in West Bengal (NSS-58th Round) Adhoc

19. Small Trading Units in West Bengal & their Basic Characteristics Adhoc

20. Gross Fixed Capital Formation (Primary Sector for West Bengal) Adhoc


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21. Report on Sample Survey for Estimating Yield Rate and

Production of Major Crops in West Bengal Adhoc

22. Report on Staff Census Adhoc

23. Publications Brought out by Line Departments

24. 17th All India Live-Stock Census, Agriculture Implements &

Machinery Fishery Statistics, W.B. Quinquennial

25. GIS- based Auto-run CD-format of the above reports. Quinquennial

26. GIS-based Dynamic website of the above reports

(www.livestock-censuswestbengal.org) Quinquennial

27. Annual Administrative Report on Animal Health Statistics Annual

28. Key Food and Supplies Statistics, West Bengal Annual

29. Sechpatra Quarterly

30. State Forests Report Annual

31. Labour in West Bengal Annual

32. Statistics Progress Report Monthly

33. V.G.Y.P. Monthly

34. Health on the March Annual

35. Hospital Activity & Efficiency Indicators Quarterly

Manpower

5. There is no common Statistical Cadre for both gazetted and non-gazetted level. The

statistical personnel of BAE&S posted in other departments are very limited. The total staff

strength of BAE&S and Line Departments is 1910 and is given as under:-

Sl. No. Office No.

1. Statistical Staff in BAE&S 924


Total 1910


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28. ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS

The system of official statistics in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is decentralized. The

Directorate of Economics & Statistics is the nodal agency for collection, compilation, analysis

and dissemination of data. Individual Line Departments are responsible for collection, processing

and release of the data in their own subject fields. The data collection, except to the extent it

is covered by Central Legislations like Collection of Statistics Act and Registration of Births and

Deaths, is not facilitated by any other Legislation.

Organisation of DES

2. The DES is under the administrative control of Secretary in -charge of Statistics. DES is

not positioned in the Department of Planning. It functions as separate Directorate since 1996.

There are 3 Districts and 9 Tehsils in A & N Islands. Out of 3 Districts, DES has District Statistical

Cell only in Nicobar District. At Tehsil level, DES has statistical staff in three Tehsils in North &

Middle Andaman District and 2 Tehsils in Nicobar District. None of the Tehsils in South Andaman

District has the presence of statistical staff of DES. None of the statistical staff of DES is available

in the Panchati Raj Institution (PRIs) though the PRIs have statistical staff created by Line

Departments of A & N Administration.


3. Statistical activities of DES are as under:-

Ø Estimate of State Gross and Net Domestic Product and related outputs like Net

Domestic Product per capita, sectoral composition of GSDP, etc.

Ø Index Number of Industrial Production

Ø Estimates of area under various kharif, rabi and summer crops at UT, district

and Tehsil levels

Ø Estimates of average yields of various crops at UT level

Ø Estimates of production of principal agricultural crops

Ø Agency collection of retail price of essential commodities, food items, vegetables,

Non-vegetables and fruits

Ø Collection of farm harvest prices of Agriculture commodities annually

Ø Collection of wholesale price of food grains on monthly basis

Ø Conducting of Census of Government Employees Annually

Ø Conducting of Agriculture Census Quinquennial

Ø Conducting of Economic Census Quinquennial


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Ø Population Census



Ø Meteorological Statistics


The statistical activities of the line departments are as under:-

Ø Collection and Compilation of veterinary facilities viz. hospitals, dispensaries,

sub-dispensaries, artificial insemination centers/sub-centres, mobile

dispensaries and others

Ø Estimation of production of milk and eggs.

Ø Quinquennial Livestock Survey.

Ø Collection and compilation of data on livestock farms that include cattle

breeding, piggery, and fodder production

Ø Collection of Tourists Statistics



Ø Collection, compilation and analysis of data passenger and cargo traffic in respect

of vessels plying between Mainland-Island, Inter-Islands and foreshore & harbour

sectors

Ø Collection and submission of statistics on inland water transport system

Ø Tribal Welfare Statistics & Census of STs

Ø Cases under Atrocities Act, 1989.

Ø Post Matric scholarship to STs, coaching and allied to STs, development of PTGs,

prevention of Atrocities Act, tribal hostels for boys & girls

Ø Collection and compilation of educational statistics, dropouts, literacy,

Scholarship, CBSE results, adult education, technical & higher education in A&N

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Ø Electricity generation and consumption in A & N Islands. District/Tehsil wise no.

of electrified villages

Ø Forest Statistics

Ø Employment Statistics

Ø Law & Order related to Police, Fire Services & District Jail

Ø No. of Co-operative Societies and Sector-wise Co-operative Societies

membership & share capital in A&N Islands

Ø Statistics on Medical & Public Health i.e. Medical facilities and medical personnel

in A& N islands, registration of Deaths & Births, Sterilization and other

information on Public Health, Vital Statistics, National Health Programme.

Ø Agriculture statistics like land utilization, area & production of various crops,

distribution of seeds, pesticides & fertilizers, etc.

Ø Wholesale price of food grains, fair price shops, storage facilities, Family Identity

Cards in A& N Islands

Ø Statistics on Panchayati Raj Institutions

Ø Statistics on Rural Development and Local Self Government

Ø Statistics on Planning & Finance.

Ø Motor vehicle & motor transport

Ø Area and Population of A&N Islands

Ø Election, Electorates and Islander Identity Cards

Ø Road & road length

Ø Factories, Industries SSI Units, Printing Press, etc.

Publication

4. Publications of DES are as given below:


1 2 3

1. Basic Statistics Annual

2. Island-wise Statistical Outline Annual


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3. Andaman & Nicobar Islands at-a-Glance Annual

4. Basic Transport Statistics Annual

5. Meteorological Statistics Annual

6. Hand Book of South Andaman District Annual

7. Hand Book of Nicobar District Annual

8. Hand Book of North & Middle Andaman District Annual

9. Estimation of State Domestic Product Annual

10. Agriculture Census & Input Survey Quinquennial


Manpower

5. There is a Common Statistical Cadre in the UT. The staff belonging to statistical service

(both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted) is posted in line Departments for carrying out statistical

jobs. Posting of gazetted staff is done with the approval of Lt. Governor, A&N Islands and the

posting of sub-ordinate staff is done with the approval of Chief Secretary/Secretary (Statistics)

The statistical cadre is controlled by DES, which is responsible for recruitment and posting of

staff in all other departments. The total sanctioned staff strength of the amalgamated Statistical

Cadre is 131 including 2 posts of Research Officer of which 107 are filled up. The staff in place

has been deployed as follows:

Sl.No. Offices Total



Total 107


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29. CHANDIGARH ADMINISTRATION

The system of official statistics in UT of Chandigarh is decentralised. The Directorate of

Economics and Statistics (DES) has been declared as the nodal agency. The DES is primarily

engaged in collection and compilation of basic socio-economic data relating to the Union

Territory and carrying out surveys and censuses as assigned by the Govt. of India and Chandigarh

Administration from time to time. The individual line Departments are responsible for collection,

processing and releasing the data in their own subject fields. Each Department recruits its on

staff, as there is no common statistical cadre in the UT. The data collection, except to the

extent it is covered by Central legislations like Collection of Statistics Act, and Registration of

Births and Deaths Act, remains voluntary in nature.

Organisation

2. The DES functions under the administrative control of the Finance Department of

Chandigarh Administration. It is headed by Joint Secretary (Finance) who also functions as the

Ex-Officio Director, Economics and Statistics. The DES has only 7 statistical staff who handles

all the statistical activities of the DES. They are assisted by 5 ministerial employees. Statistical

staff deployed in DES and some of the line Departments like; Agriculture(Census), Technical

Education, Registrar Births and Deaths, Health Services, Engineering Department, Labour

Department, Planning Department, Employment Exchange, Social Welfare and Department of

Industries.



Ø Estimation of State Domestic Product and Per Capita income at current &

constant prices.

Ø Estimation of Gross Fixed Capital Formation.

Ø Conduct of Census of Govt. Employees in the Chandigarh Administration, local

bodies, and public sector undertaking.

Ø Collection of official statistics for its publication “Statistical Abstract”

Ø Collection of consumer prices.

Ø Economic Census.


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Publications

4. The main publications of DES are as given below:


1 2 3


2. Census of Govt. Employees, Chandigarh Administration Annual

Census of Public Sector Undertakings and Local Bodies Employees Annual

3. State Domestic Product and Per Capita Income at Current &

Constant Prices Annual

4. Report on Economic Census Adhoc

Manpower

5. There is no common statistical cadre in UT. Each department recruits its own staff. The

DES has only 7 statistical staff who amongst them handles all the statistical activities of the

DES. They are assisted by 5 ministerial employees. The statistical staff strength of DES and Line

Department in position is 44 as given below:

Statistical Staff Strength in DES and Line Departments

Sl. No. Offices No. of Staff

1 Directorate of Economics & Statistics 7

2 Line Department/ Ministries 37

Total 44


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30. DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI

The Department of Planning and Statistics is a central agency for coordination and liaison of

statistical activities in different Line Departments of Administration. Its main function is to collect,

compile and disseminate the data/information under various developmental schemes. Besides, certain

regular census, surveys and field visits are organized as a part of national level programmes.

Statistical Activities of Department of Planning and Statistics

2. The following statistical activities are carried out by the Department of Planning and Statistics:

Ø Agriculture Statistics

Ø Irrigation Statistics

Ø Population Census

Ø Agricultural Census and Input Survey

Ø Economic Census

Ø Registration of Births and Deaths

Ø Collection of Agricultural Statistics

Ø Preparation of Report of Weekly Farm Harvest Prices

Ø Collection of Rainfall data

Ø Preparation of Publication of Socio-Economic Development

Ø Providing Information to SCs and STs and Minority Commission

Ø Collection of Data Relating to Twenty Point Programme


Ø Estimation of crops, area , and production

Ø Collection and compilation of data relating to animal husbandry, livestock and

veterinary services.

Ø Conduct of the Quinquennial Livestock Census and the Sample Survey of Livestock

Products,

Ø Conduct of the All-India Educational Survey

Ø Maintenance of Housing and Building Statistics

Ø Maintenance of Data on Number of Ration Cards and Fair Price Shops

Ø Social Welfare and Child Development Statistics


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Ø Collection and Compilation of Data on Monthly Basis on Number of Hotels, Guest

Houses and Tourists

Publications:

3. Following publications are brought out by the Department:


1 2 3

1. Annual Administration Report of Home Ministry Annual

2. Annual publication of Socio Economic Development of Dadra and Annual

Nagar Haveli

3. Weekly Farm Harvest Prices (prevailing in local market) Weekly

4. Report on Rainfall Data Adhoc

5. Monthly Report on Births and Deaths Monthly

6. Booklet: Highlights of Development in UT Annual

Manpower

4. The total statistical staff strength in position in DP& S and Line Department is 13 as given

below:

Sl. No. Office Nos.

1 Statistical Staff in DP&S- HQ 6


3 Total 13


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31. DAMAN AND DIU


In the Union Territory of Daman and Diu, collection, compilation and dissemination of

statistical data is carried out by the Department of Planning and Statistics (DP&S). The Deputy

Director is Head of Office and the Development Commissioner is Head of Department of

Planning and Statistics. There are two districts: One is Daman and another is Diu. One Statistical

Assistant and one Statistical Investigator are posted with BDO in District DIU to attend to

statistical works. Because of limited staff, many of the important statistical activities like

preparation of SDP estimates and related aggregates, various indices and the socio-economic

surveys of the NSS (State Sample) are not being performed.

Statistical Activities performed by Department of Planning and Statistics

2. Statistical activities performed by the Department of Planning and Statistics are given

below:

Ø Conduct of Population Census


Ø Conduct of Agricultural Census

Ø Conduct of Live Stock Census

Ø Conduct of Census of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Ø Conduct of Agricultural Input Survey

Ø Conduct of Crop Estimation Survey

Ø Conduct of Livestock Product Survey

Ø Conduct of All India School Education Survey

Ø Registration of Births and Deaths

Ø Twenty Point Programme

Ø Compilation of Statistical Diary for UT of Daman and Diu

Ø Compilation of Data on Fisheries, Transport, Labour, Water Consumption,

Rainfall, Prices of Commodities, Building Statistics.


Ø Collection of data for Registration of Small Scale, Medium Scale and Large Scale

Industries,

Ø Health and Family Welfare Statistics


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Ø Data on number of schools and teachers, enrolment of students, progress of

plan schemes

Ø Collection of data necessary for implementation of Central Sector Rural Poverty

Alleviation Programmes and monitoring the progress

Ø Conduct of Survey to identify families living below poverty line in rural area

Ø Collection of Data on village wise amenities, number of beneficiaries assisted

under various schemes, roads under Prime Minister Gramm Sadak Yojana

Ø Collection of data on wells and tube wells, beneficiaries assisted under various

plan schemes

Ø Collection of data for treatment of birds and animals, number of slaughter

houses, production of meat

Ø Collection of data on number of persons registered for employment and number

of persons employed through Employment Exchanges

Ø Collection of data on number of Government Employees

Publications

3. Some of the publications brought out by Department of Planning and Statistics are

given below:


1 2 3

1 Annual Report on Implementation of RBD Annual

2 Monthly Progress Report of Twenty Point Programme for UT Monthly

of Daman and Diu

3 Annual Administration Report for Ministry of Home Affairs. Annual

4 Annual Statistical Diary for UT of Daman and Diu Annual

Manpower

4. The total statistical staff strength in position in DP& S and Line Departments is 16,

against the sanctioned strength of 31 as given below:

Sl. No. Office Nos.

1. Statistical Staff in Department of Planning and Statistics 9


Total 31


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32. NCT OF DELHI

The State’s statistical system is decentralized. The Directorate of Economics & Statistics

(DES) is the main organization for collection and dissemination of data relating to the State

while individual line Departments are responsible for collection and release of data in their

own specialized field/subject. There is no state level legislation to regulate the statistical activity.

Organisation of DES

2. The Directorate of Economics & Statistics(DES) is the nodal agency in the NCT of Delhi

for collection, compilation, analysis and presentation of statistical data and information. The

DES is under the administrative control of the Principal Secretary (Planning). The Directorate

has been actively engaged in the socio-economic surveys in various rounds of National Sample

Survey Organisation, statistics on state income, annual survey of industries and vital statistics.

Planning Department is the cadre controlling authority of the Planning and Statistical employees

and recruitment is done through UPSC/DSSB as the case may be.


3. The key statistical activities of DES are listed below:

Ø Estimation of State Gross and Net Domestic Products

Ø Estimation of Gross Capital Formation

Ø Estimating contribution of local bodies to GSDP

Ø Participation in NSS on matching basis & bring out Sample Survey Reports


Ø Matters relating to compilation of IIP

Ø Compilation and publication of Delhi Statistical Hand book , other publications

based on population, prices, general statistics

Ø Implementing Registration of Births & Deaths under Civil Registration in the

State. Also collecting and compiling data on Medical Certifications of Causes of

Deaths

Ø Collection of Consumer Prices on behalf of Labour Bureau, GOI, wholesale prices

of selected commodities required in compilation of WPI by GOI

Ø Collection of Prices of Building material on quarterly basis

Ø Economic Survey of NCT of Delhi

Ø Formulation Annual/Five Year Plans of DES and monitor the implementation


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Ø Conduct of Annual Census of State Government and Local Bodies Employees

Ø Conduct of Economic Census(CSS) under central/plan schemes

Ø Conduct Training programmes

Statistical Activities of Line Department

Ø Compilation of education indicators like Enrollment, Drop out, Teacher Student

Ratio, Pass Percentage, Infrastructure, etc.

Ø Compilation of crop area and production statistics, on the basis of crop cutting

surveys

Ø Agricultural Census(5years) on national pattern

Ø Livestock Census, Farm Equipment Census (5 yearly and other regular statistical

activities pertaining to livestock development)

Ø Conducting Small Scale Industry Census once in five years under centrally

sponsored scheme.

Ø Monthly report on contagious diseases on slaughter houses and on market prices

of livestock and livestock products and activities of veterinary facilities in Delhi

Ø Preparation and updating of statistics relating to registered factories under

Factories Act, 1948, Child Labour, Trade Union Statistics

Ø Statistics relating to registered motor vehicles


Ø Indian and Foreign Tourists Statistics

Publication

4. Principal publications of DES are given below:

Principal Publication of DES


1 2 3

1. Annual Report on Registration of Births & Deaths-2007 Annual

2. Classification of Employees in Delhi Govt., Autonomous/Local

Bodies Annual

3. Bulletin on Price Statistics Annual

4. Report on Fifth Economic Census 2005 in Delhi Quinquennial


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5. Estimates of State Domestic Product Annual

6. Economic-cum-Purpose Classification of Budget Expenditure

of Delhi Govt. Annual

7. Industry-wise Economic Classification of Budget Expenditure

of Local Bodies Annual

8. Estimates of Gross Fixed Capital Formation in Delhi

(Public Sector) Annual

9. Delhi Statistical Handbook Annual

10. Index of Industrial Production (New series) Annual


12. Price Indices Annual


14. Population Statistics 2001 Adhoc

15. Employment and Unemployment Situation in Delhi-62nd Round

(July 2005-June 2006) Round wise

16. Level and Pattern of Household Consumer Expenditure in

Delhi 62nd Round(July 2005 – June 2006) Round wise

17. Unorganised Manufacturing Enterprises in Delhi-62nd Round

(July 2005 – June 2006) Round wise

18. Citizen Charter(on registration of births & deaths) Annual

19. Monthly Consumer Price Index Number of Industrial Workers

in Delhi Monthly

20. Quarterly Report on Building Material Quarterly

21. Population Results Based on Census 2001 Adhoc

22. District-wise Population of NCT of Delhi Adhoc

23. Ward-wise Population of NCT of Delhi Adhoc

24. Villag- wise Population of NCT of Delhi Adhoc

25. Work Participation of NCT of Delhi Adhoc

26. Summary Results of Housing, Households Amenities Assets Adhoc

27. Religion-wise Data of NCT of Delhi Adhoc

28. Age-wise Data of NCT of Delhi Adhoc

All the publications released by DES are available on website www.des.delhigovt.nic.in

and can be downloaded free of cost.


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Manpower

5. A Common Statistical Cadre (De facto) is in place in the State covering all statistical

posts under all the state departments. The total sanctioned statistical staff is 674, out of

which 88 are in DES and 586 in the line departments. The staff position in DES and Line

Departments is as under:

Sl.No. Office Total



Total 674


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33. LAKSHADWEEP

Organisation

1. The Directorate of Planning and Statistics was established on 29-6-2007 as part of

celebration of 1st Statistics Day with the skeleton statistical staff i.e. one Statistical Assistant

and two Junior Investigators sanctioned earlier for Planning & Statistical Section. Government

of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, has given approval for establishing a small statistical set up

at the Head Quarter with one Junior Investigator for each Island. The recruitment process is in

progress. The newly established Directorate is coordinating the statistical works of the different

Departments and maintaining liaison with the statistical organizations of the State/ Central

and other outside agencies/Organisations.

There are small statistical Divisions sanctioned under Central Sector Schemes and

departmental schemes to take care of National surveys and the departmental statistics in the

following sectors/departments.

1. Agricultural Census (Centrally Sponsored / Sector Scheme)

2. Livestock Census / Integrated Sample Survey (Centrally Sponsored / Sector Scheme)

3. Education Statistics Division

4. PWD Statistics Division

5. RCH/AIDS attached in the Medical department. (Centrally Sponsored / Sector Scheme)

Besides, one Statistical Officer/Statistical Assistant is working in each Department of

Fisheries, Medical, Industries, etc. There is no statistical personnel in major departments like;

Agriculture, Port, Light Houses, Shipping and Civil Aviation, Ecology and Environment

Cooperation, Public Distribution System, Tourism, Information Technology, Police and Fire

Services, Panchayat and Rural Development.



Ø Conduct of Agriculture Statistics


Ø Conduct of Livestock Census

Ø Conduct of Integrated Sample Survey on Livestock

Ø Education Statistics

Ø Health Statistics


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Ø Industry Statistics

Publications

3. List of Publications brought out by Lakshadweep is given below:

Sl. No Name of the Publication Periodicity

1 2 3

1. Basic Statistics Annual

2. Lakshadweep Key Indicators Annual



5. Lakshadweep Gazetter Ad-hoc

6. State Development Report Ad-hoc

7. Lakshadweep and Its People Ad-hoc

Manpower

4. Some new statistical staff in Union Territories of Lakshadweep have been sanctioned

by the Ministry of Home affairs for establishment of Directorate of Planning and Statistics.

Presently, the total statistical staff strength working in the DES and Line department is 38 as

given below:

Statistical Staff in DES and Line Departments

Sl. No. Office No. of Staff

1. Statistical Staff in Directorate of Economics & Statistics 14

2. Statistical staff of DES in Line Department/ Ministries 24

3. Statistical Staff recruited by respective Department Nil

Total 38


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34. PUDUCHERRY

Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) came into being in 1981. The DES plays

the role of a nodal agency and is responsible for collection, compilation, analysis and

dissemination of all major statistical activities in the Union Territory and coordination with line

Departments on statistical matters. There are statistical as well as non-statistical units in almost

all different line Departments engaged in collection, compilation and analysis of data in their

own spheres of responsibility. These units have been set up with a view to revitalize the activities

of the Directorate and for meeting the growing demand for statistical information by policy

makers and researchers.


2. The statistical activities undertaken by the DES are:

Ø Estimation of State GSDP

Ø Participation in surveys conducted by NSSO

Ø Participation in Annual Survey of Industries

Ø Compilation of Index of Industrial Production

Ø Consumer Price Indices for rural and urban areas

Ø Compilation of Housing and Building Statistics


Ø Timely Reporting Scheme (TRS)


Ø Crop Estimation Survey (CES)

Ø Collection of Agricultural Statistics


Ø Official Statistics

Ø Census of Government Employees

Ø Economic Censuses

Ø Ad - hoc surveys

Ø Electronic processing of data

Statistical activities of Line Departments

The statistical activities undertaken by Line Departments are:

Ø Public Health Statistics

Ø Registration of Births and Deaths Statistics


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Ø Education Statistics



Ø Water Supply and Sanitation Statistics


Ø Animal Husbandry Statistics

Ø Statistics on Cooperation

Ø Statistics on Civil Supplies

Ø Welfare Statistics

Ø Agriculture Statistics

Ø Industries Statistics

Ø Local Administration Statistics

Ø Tourism Statistics

Publications

3. DES and Line Departments bring out number of regular and ad-hoc publications as

given below:


1 2 3

1. Abstract of Statistics Annual

2. Hand Book of Statistics Annual

3. Puducherry at a Glance Annual

4. Season and Crop Report Annual


6. Economic and Purpose Classification Annual

8. Price Bulletin Monthly

9. Census of Govt. Employees Annual

10. Agriculture Census Report Quinquennial

11. Economic Census Report Quinquennial


13. Municipal Year Book Annual



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15. Women and Men in Puducherry Adhoc

16. Input Survey Report Quinquennial

17. Livestock Census Report Quinquennial

18. Integrated Sample Survey Results Annual

20. Annual Vital Statistics Report Annual

22. Annual Report-Status of Agriculture in UT Puducherry Annual

23. Directory of Industries-SSI Adhoc

24. Directory of Exporters Adhoc

Statistical manpower

4. There is a common statistical cadre in the UT. The total statistical manpower in position

is 198, out of which 65 are in DES and 133 in line Departments.


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1. AIRPORTS AUTHORITY OF INDIA, NEW DELHI

Airports Authority of India (AAI) is a Public Sector Undertaking under the administrative

control of Ministry of Civil Aviation. It was constituted by an Act of Parliament and came into

being on 1st April, 1995 by merging erstwhile National Airports Authority and International

Airports Authority of India, with a view to accelerate the integrated development, expansion

and modernization of the operational, terminal and cargo facilities at the airports in the country

conforming to international standards. Authority is mainly responsible for control and

management of the Indian airspace extending beyond the territorial limits of the country, as

accepted by ICAO; design, development, operation and maintenance of International and

Domestic Airports and Civil Enclaves; construction, modification and management of passenger

terminals; development and management of Cargo Terminals at International and Domestic

Airports; provision of passenger facilities and Information System at the passenger Terminals

at airports; expansion and strengthening of operation area viz. Runways, Aprons, Taxiway,

etc.; provision of Visual aids; and provision of Communication and Navigational aids, etc.

Statistical Unit of Airports Authority of India, called as Directorate of Corporate Planning

and Management Services (CP&MS), is headed by an Executive Director. The Directorate has

statistical units at all four Metro Airports viz: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata and also at

Thrivananthapuram Airport. The statistical activities of the Directorate include collection,

analysis, interpretation and publication of Air Traffic Statistics in respect of Air Craft Movement,

Passengers and Freight for 16 International Air Ports, 8 Custom Airports and 109 domestic

airports in India; conducting various system studies such as economic planning, corporate

planning, statistical surveys from time to time; preparing short term indicators and long term

air traffic forecast; conducting Origin-Destination surveys, traffic potential studies for expansion

of the existing Airports and for development of green field Airports, customer satisfaction

surveys, opinion surveys and operation research studies; and conducting Global Monitoring

Surveys in association with ACI for bench marking of Indian Airports (Chennai and Kolkata

Airports) against 94 International terminals and 62 domestic terminals of foreign Airports.

CP&MS functions as Nodal Agency for National Statistical Commission to represent Civil Aviation

sector.

The Directorate brings out the following publications:

Monthly: Traffic Reporter

Quarterly: Quarterly Review of Air Traffic

Annual: Review of Traffic at AAI Airports

The statistical manpower in position in the Authority is as follows:

Professional 6

Intermediate 6

Primary 2

Total 14


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2. ANDREW YULE & COMPANY LTD., KOLKATA

Andrew Yule and Company Limited is a Government of India enterprise under the

Administrative Control of Department of Heavy Industries, Ministry of Heavy Industries and

Public Enterprises. It was incorporated as a private company in 1919. After India gained

independence from the British Empire, the company was turned into a public company in 1948.

The Company is a multiproduct, multidivision conglomerate having a group turnover exceeding

Rs. 400 crores. . It is the main company owned by the Yule Group. It is currently headquartered

in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), and has offices in the main Indian cities. The Group’s principal

activity is to manufacture engineering products. The Group operates in five segments:

Engineering, Electrical, Tea, Printing and Conveyor Belt System.

Statistical manpower in Andrew Yule & Company Ltd. is as follows:

Professional: 0

Intermediate: 10

Primary: 11

Total: 21


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3. BHARAT COKING COAL LIMITED, DHANBAD

Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) is a Public Sector Undertaking under the

administrative control of the Ministry of Coal and it is engaged in mining of coal and allied

activities. BCCL’s area of operation falls in Jharia Coalfield and in a part of Ranigaunj Coalfield

in the State of Jharkhand. Its activities extents into a small area in West Bengal also wherein it

operates two of its coal mines. BCCL was incorporated in January, 1972 to manage and operate

the taken over coking coal mines. BCCL became a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd. (Holding Company)

when the later was incorporated in November, 1975.

Statistical manpower in Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. is as follows:

Professional: 2

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 0

Total 2


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4. BHARATIYA NABHIKIYA VIDYUT NIGAM LIMITED, CHENNAI

Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI) is a wholly owned Enterprise of

Government of India under the administrative control of the Department of Atomic Energy

(DAE). It has been incorporated on 22nd October 2003 as a Public Limited Company under the

Companies Act, 1956 with the objective of constructing, commissioning, operation and

maintenance of first 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil

Nadu for generation of electricity.

The Company activities have been divided into 3 Directorates viz. Construction &

Operation, Technical & Procurement, and Corporate Finance, each headed by a Director,

reporting to the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD). The Chairman and Managing Director

is the Chief Executive of the Company and looks after the day to day affairs of the company.

Statistical manpower in position in Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI)

is as follows:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 1

Total 2


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5. BHARAT PUMPS & COMPRESSORS LTD., ALLAHABAD

Bharat Pumps & Compressors Ltd., is a Public Sector Undertaking under the

administrative control of Department of Heavy Industries in the Ministry of Heavy Industries

and Public Enterprises. It was incorporated in 1970 with manufacturing facility at Naini,

Allahabad. The mandate of the Company is to conduct research, design, manufacture and

supply capital goods in the fluid handling field, including provision of services connected there-

with, to cater to the needs of oil exploration and exploitation, refineries, petro-chemicals,

chemicals and fertilizer, power sectors and process and downstream industries.

There is no specific statistical section or unit in M/s Bharat Pumps & Compressors Ltd.

However, the Planning and Development (P&D) Department is entrusted with the work of

statistical activities besides maintaining the data, preparation of reports/reply of queries to

various Government Organisations.

Statistical manpower in position in the Bharat Pumps & Compressors Ltd is given below:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 1

Primary: 0

Total 2


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6. CENTRAL COALFIELDS LTD. , RANCHI

Central Coalfield Ltd. (CCL) is a Public Sector Undertaking under the administrative

control of Ministry of Coal. CCL is a Subsidiary Company of Coal India Limited under Ministry of

Coal, Govt. of India. The company is managed by Board of Directors and headed by Chairman

cum Managing Director, assisted by group staff officers looking after different departments.

The Mission of CCL is to produce and market the planned quantity of coal and coal products

efficiently and economically with due regard to safety, conservation and quality.

The statistical activities performed in the Central Coalfield Limited are maintenance

and compilation of data related to Raw Coal Production, Off take, and Stock, etc.; generating

Monthly Report of CCL; providing data for CIL Monthly Report, Daily Report of CCL in various

formats, etc.; providing data to other departments; preparation of Annual Action Plan, and

Monthly Coal and OBR Production Programme.

Statistical manpower in Central Coalfields Ltd is as given below:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 2

Primary: 0

Total 3


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7. CENTRAL ELECTRONICS LTD., SAHIBABAD

Central Electronics Limited (CEL), established in June 1974, is a Public Sector Undertaking

under the administrative control of Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of

Science & Technology, Government of India. This is a Technology and Production Enterprise of

the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. CEL’s mission is to achieve excellence in

the technology and manufacture and be market leader in solar Energy Systems and Strategic

Electronics. The activities of CEL are sharply focused in three thrust areas: Solar photovoltaic

cells, modules and systems for a variety of applications; selected Electronic Systems-Equipment

for Railway Signaling and Safety, Cathodic Protedtion Equipment for Oil Pipelines, Switching

Systems and Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs); and selected Electronic components-

professional (Soft) Ferrites, Electronic Ceramics, Piezo Electric Elements and Microwave

Components.

Statistical manpower in Central Electronics Ltd. is given below :

Professional: 1

Intermediate; 1

Primary: 3

Total 5


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8. CENTRAL MINE PLANNING & DESIGN INSTITUTE LTD. , RANCHI

Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd(CMPDI) was established in the year

1975 as a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (a Government of India Enterprise) for rendering

total consultancy services (i.e. from concept to commissioning) to Coal India Limited and it’s

seven subsidiaries which contribute about 90% of the total coal production of the country.

CMPDI offers full-range of services in the sphere of resource exploration & development, coal

preparation, utilisation and management, coal/material handling arrangement, as well as

engineering and environmental management. Currently CMPDI, besides Coal India Limited

and it’s seven subsidiaries, extends consultancy services to host of clients in India and abroad.

The clients include Government and Private Entrepreneurs, United Nations Agencies,

International Financial Institutions, etc. CMPDI operates through its headquarters at Ranchi

and seven regional institutes located at Asansole, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Nagpur, Bilaspur, Singrauli

and Bhubaneswar, which are geographically spread in six states of the country.

Statistical activities of the Institute consist of project planning and preparedness under

the Project Appraisal Division.

Statistical manpower in position in Institute is given below:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 0

Total 1


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9. CENTRAL WAREHOUSING CORPORATION, NEW DELHI

Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) is a Public Sector Undertaking of Government

of India. This corporation was established in 1957 to provide logistics support to the agricultural

sector. The main functions of CWC are to provide scientific storage facilities for agriculture

produce & inputs and other notified commodities, pest control services, provide logistic services

and to promote subsidiary/associate companies to further the purposes of the Act.

The statistical Unit of CWC was established in 1967 in a full fledged manner with

statistical assistant and staff. Presently the Unit is headed by a Senior Statistical Officer of the

rank of Group ‘A’ Officer, assisted by a Storage & Inspection Officer, a Superintendent and a

Junior Superintendent. Unit is responsible for collection, compilation, scrutiny, interpretation

of data received from field. The primary duty of the unit is compilation of Monthly Business

Report of the Corporation comprising physical performance level i.e. storage capacity and its

utilization of warehouses. The working involves preparing various data reports through manual

processing and using computer software. The publications brought out by the Statistical Unit

are for internal purpose.

Statistical manpower in Central Warehousing Corporation is given below:

Professional: 2

Intermediate: 3

Primary: 0

Total 5


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10. CONTAINER CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD, NEW DELHI

Containers Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR) is a public sector undertaking under

the administrative control of Ministry of Railways. CONCOR was set up in 1988 to profitably

satisfy customer’s needs for high- quality, cost-effective logistics services. The objectives of

the corporation are to maximize productive utilization of resources and deliver high quality of

services. CONCOR has a network of more than 57 terminals, offering scheduled and on demand

rapid rail and road services between the hinderland and ports, and between major metros.

The statistical activities of the Corporation are taken care by Planning and Development

(P&D) Division. The functions of this Division are: planning, development of various ICDs/CFSs

including planning of necessary infrastructure and other allied activities; planning-business

and finance plan, requirement of rolling stock and containers, etc. in co-ordination with other

functional departments; special projects-JV agreement, MOU and; to compile data and

performance statistics and MCDO.

Statistical manpower in position in Container Corporation of India Ltd is given below:

Professional: 0

Intermediate: 1

Primary: 1

Total 2


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11. THE COTTON CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD., MUMBAI

The Cotton Corporation of India was set up in July 1970 as the Public Sector Undertaking

in the field of marketing of cotton. The Corporation is a Nodal Agency of Government of India,

for undertaking Price Support Operations. As per this Textile Policy of 1985, the specific role

assigned to the Corporation, in brief, is to undertake price support operations, whenever the market

prices of kapas touch the support prices announced by the Government of India, without any quantitative

limit; to undertake commercial operations only at CCI’s own risk, and to purchase cotton to

fulfill the export commitment.

The CCI Operations cover all the cotton growing states in the country comprising ofPunjab, Haryana and Rajasthan in Northern Zone; Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in Central

Zone; Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in Southern Zone; and West Bengal and Orissa in

East. It has Branch Offices in all the cotton growing states like; Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,

Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, and

West Bengal.

The Statistical Division of the Corporation maintains the statistical data on daily basis

in respect of acreage under cotton production, consumption, prices of Kapas(raw Cotton) and

lint Cotton, export and import of cotton both domestically and Internationally and submitted

to the top management for planning the operations of the Corporation as also to other offices

viz; Ministry, office of the Textile Commissioner, etc. The aforesaid data is also included in the

Cotton Profile.

Statistical manpower in position in the Corporation is given below:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 1

Primary: 3

Total 5


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12. ELECTRONICS CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, HYDERABAD

Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) is a public sector undertaking under the

administrative control of Department of Atomic Energy. ECIL was setup in the year 1967 with a

view to generating a strong indigenous capability in the field of professional grade electronics.

The initial accent was on total self-reliance and ECIL was engaged in the Design Development,

Manufacture and Marketing of several products with emphasis on three technology lines viz.

Computers, Control Systems and Communications. Over the years, ECIL has evolved as a multi-

product company serving multiple sectors of Indian economy with emphasis on import of

country substitution and development of products & services that are of economic and strategic

significance to the country.

There is no separate Statistical Unit in the Electronics Corporation of India Limited. The

statistics relating to human resource are compiled by the Management Information System

Section under Personnel Group. The statistics pertaining to the finances and financial

performance are compiled by Management Reporting Cell under Finance and Accounting Group.

The statistics relating to performance are compiled by Corporate Planning and Project

Monitoring Section under General Administration Division. There are no qualified or professional

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13. FERTILISERS AND CHEMICALS TRAVANCORE LIMITED, KOCHI

The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd. (FACT) is a public sector undertaking under

the Ministry of Fertilizers and Chemicals. The FACT was incorporated in 1943 and started

commercial production with the state of the art wood gasification technology in 1947 at its

fertilizer unit located at Udyogmandal in Kochi, Kerala. The company became a Public Sector

Unit in 1960 and a Central Public Sector Unit in 1962. The company’s main business is

manufacture and marketing of Fertilisers and Caprolactam, and providing Engineering

Consultancy and Fabrication of Equipment.

FACT has centralized Materials, Finance, Marketing and HR departments. There is no

separate Statistical Department in FACT. All records and data relating to transaction in various

departments are maintained by the individual departments itself and are available for perusal

and use whenever required. Depending on the importance of a record/data, individual

departments define the retention period for the records/data and ensure the preservation of

such data/records for the period prescribed. The responsibility for maintenance of records/

data vests with the individual departments.

No publications on statistical data have been brought out by the company. There is no

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14. GAIL(INDIA) LIMITED, NEW DELHI

GAIL (India) Ltd. (erstwhile Gas Authority of India Ltd), India’s principal gas transmission

and marketing company, was set up by the Government of India in August 1984 to create gas

sector infrastructure for sustained development of the natural gas sector in the country. The

mission of GAIL is to accelerate and optimise the effective and economic use of Natural Gas

and its fractions to the benefit of national economy. The company aims to further expand its

core business of Natural Gas Transmission & Marketing, to capture larger share of the growing

market. Additionally, investments in petrochemicals and city gas distribution are being planned

to enhance margins and increase sources of revenue. The company is also exploring and

investing in international opportunities with a strategic rationale of gaining international

presence. Incorporating the new-found energy into its corporate identity, Gas Authority of

India was renamed GAIL (India) Limited on November 22, 2002. The Gail is Central Public Sector

Undertaking in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

GAIL does not have any exclusive department/section to look after statistical functions.

The respective departments/sections are required to collate, build and maintain data with

regard to their own areas of work on need basis for the purpose of submitting returns and

reports to different authorities and also for using all such data and information in day to day

decision making processes. GAIL does not recruit professionals exclusively for statistical

purposes. GAIL has been recruiting professionals from engineering/ management background

as per business requirements, who by virtue of their knowledge, build/maintain statistical

information. Such employees are also not exclusively earmarked for performing statistical

functions and they perform such jobs on need basis as part of their other day-to-day activities.

There is no statistical manpower in GAIL (India) Ltd.


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15. HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LTD., BANGALORE

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is central Public Sector Undertaking under the

Department of Defence Production, in the Ministry of Defence. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

(HAL) came into existence on 1st October 1964. The Company was formed by the merger of

Hindustan Aircraft Limited with Aeronautics India Limited and Aircraft Manufacturing Depot,

Kanpur. Today, HAL has 19 Production Units and 9 Research and Design Centres in 7 locations

in India. The Company has an impressive product track record - 12 types of aircraft manufactured

with in-house R & D and 14 types produced under license. The Hindustan Aeronautical has 13

divisions.

The main functions of the company are to manufacture hardware for India’s growing

space programs; to manufacture systems and accessories for various aircraft and engines and

attain self sufficiency; to manufacture a variety of Aircrafts under license; to cater to the aviation

electronics (AVIONICS ); to take up the production of Display Attack Ranging and Innertial

Navigation (DARIN) system for Jaguar International aircraft for Indian Air Force; to manufacture

advanced airborne avionic systems; to manufacture Orpheus turbo jet engines under license

from Rolls Royce; to manufacture R11-f2 turbo jet engine of MiG-21 FL aircraft under license

from the erstwhile USSR.; to manufacture the HS-748, a medium haul turbo-prop passenger

transport aircraft; to provide support in areas of Inspection, Spare Parts, Maintenance,

Equipment Overhauls & Assembly for Industrial & Marine Gas Turbines under license from

reputed manufacturers; to assemble and overhaul aircrafts under license, etc.

The Statistical activities in respect of each Division are handled by the Statistical Section

in its Personnel and Administration Department. Depending upon the size of the Division, the

number of officers and workmen vary from 1 to 3 in each statistical section of the Division. In

few cases, the officers assigned the statistical work are also looking after the other areas of

Personnel and Administration. At the Corporate Level, 2 officers, who are professionally qualified

in P& A discipline, are handling the Data Management.

Statistical manpower in Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. is given below :

Professional: 29

Intermediate: 22

Primary: 2

Total 53


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16. HINDUSTAN ANTIBIOTICS LTD., PIMPRI, PUNE

Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL), Pimpri, Pune, is a Public Sector Undertaking under

the administrative control of Department of Chemicals in the Ministry of Chemical and

Fertilisers. This is the first public sector undertaking in the Drugs & Pharmaceutical Sector. The

plant was commissioned in 1955-56. The undertaking, with its plant at Pimpri, Pune, is engaged

in the manufacture of bulk drugs, mainly Penicillins, Streptomycin and a number of

formulations.HAL has also four joint sector undertakings of which three units have been

promoted in collaboration with the respective State Governments and one with a private sector

company.

Statistical manpower in position in Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd . is given below:

Professional: 4

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 3

Total 7


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17. HINDUSTAN PHOTO FILMS MFG. CO. LTD. , OOTACAMUND

Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Company Limited (HPF) is a Public Sector

Undertaking under the Department of Heavy Industry in the Ministry of Heavy Industry and

Public Enterprises incorporated in the year 1960, with a vision to make India self reliant in the

field of Photo sensitised goods. The company manufactures and markets its fleet of products

under the brand name “INDU”, which in Sanskrit means Silver. The mainline products of HPF

are the medical diagnostic films viz. Medical X-ray, Medical Imaging Film, Mammographic film,

scanner film, etc.

The Statistical Quality Control Cell of HPF is the statistical cell of the company and its

main functions are to analyse and present reports for trouble shooting exercises; suggest

sampling plans to assess the Average Outgoing Quality of the materials produced and for

accepting the incoming raw materials; evaluate vendor rating for the incoming raw material

suppliers and also packaging materials suppliers; analyse the market complaints; and prepare

Weekly reports/Quality Reports/Half Yearly Reports and Annual Reports and give feed back

information to various Production Departments based on the rejection analysis of all the

products to enable them to take corrective measures.

Statistical manpower in position in the Statistical Quality Control Cell of HPF is as given

below:

Professional: 0

Intermediate: 2

Primary: 0

Total 2


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18. HMT LTD., BANGALORE

HMT Ltd. is a Central Public Sector Enterprise under the administrative control of

Department of Heavy Industry in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise.

Formerly known as Hindustan Machine Tools Ltd., it was started in 1953 for the manufacture

of center lathes in collaboration with Oerlikon of Switzerland. The company which was started

as a single product unit, diversified over the years into manufacture of Watches, Tractors, Printing

Machines, Metal Forming Presses, Die Casting & Plastic Processing Machinery, CNC Systems &

Bearings, becoming a multi-product, multi-technology, multi-location, multi-unit engineering

conglomerate. HMT has restructured its operations with the formation of subsidiaries based

on business/product lines. The Holding Company has retained the Tractor business in its fold

while all other businesses have been made into five Subsidiaries of the company viz. HMT

Machine Tools Ltd, HMT Watches Limited, HMT Chinar Watches, HMT Bearings Ltd. and HMT

(International) Ltd.

The Corporate Planning Department of the holding company is sphere heading the

Organizational Strategic Body which deals with the development of Company’s philosophy,

strategies, structure, business plans and monitors the overall functional results and directs the

strategic action plans for effective organizational growth prospects. Corporate Planning

Department also caters to the statistical data requirements of the company like; design, storage

and retrieval of macroeconomic data base, economic, and business Group Performance data

base, etc. This Corporate Planning Department is also responsible to collect, integrate, correlate

and evolve a methodic, systematic time variant data from all its subsidiary levels and also from

external environmental feed backs to bring in a statistical, indicative and qualitative Reporting

Systems.

Statistical manpower in the HMT Ltd. is given below:

Sl. No. Name of Undertakings Professional Intermediate Primary Total

1 HMT Limited –Holding

Company (Including Tractors) 5 2 1 8

2 HMT Machine Tools Limited 1 1 0 2

3 HMT Watches Limited 1 1 0 2

4 HMT Chinar Watches Limited 1 1 0 2

5 HMT (International) Limited 1 1 0 2

6 HMT Bearings Limited 1 1 0 2

Total 10 7 1 18


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19. NATIONAL FERTILIZERS LIMITED, NOIDA

National Fertilisers Limited (NFL) is a public Sector undertaking under the administrative

control of the Department of Fertilizers in the Ministry of Chemical and Fertilisers. It was

incorporated on 23rd August 1974 with two manufacturing Units at Bathinda and Panipat.

Presently, National Fertilisers Limited has four operating Plants located at Nangal and Bathinda

in Punjab, Panipat in Haryana and Vijaypur in Madhya Pradesh with Corporate Office at NOIDA.

The Company manufactures and markets, Kisan Urea, Bio-fertilizers and a wide range of

industrial products which include Methanol, Sodium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite, Nitric Acid, Sulphur,

Liquid Oxygen, Liquid CO2, Liquid Nitrogen, etc.

Statistical Information pertaining to departments is maintained by the respective

Departments/ Units. The work relating to Statistical information is taken care by the personnel

of the respective Departments apart from their other responsibilities.

Statistical manpower in the undertaking is given below:

Professional: 0

Intermediate: 1

Primary: 5

Total 6


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20. NATIONAL MINERAL DEVELOPMENT CORP. LTD (NMDC),

HYDERABAD

Incorporated in 1958 as a Government of India fully owned public enterprise, NMDC is

under the administrative control of the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. Since inception

involved in the exploration of wide range of minerals including iron ore, copper, rock phosphate,

lime stone, dolomite, gypsum, betonies, magnesite, diamond, tin, tungsten, graphite, beach

sands etc., NMDC has the only mechanised diamond mine in the country with a capacity of

1.00 lakh carats/annum at Panna (Madhya Pradesh State).

NMDC does not have a statistical department. However, statistical methods are used

under geographical activities to monitor the quality of ore at various stages of operation like

exploration, production and dispatches. Further, the Geostatistics cell of the Corporation uses

the exploration data to estimate total reserves, block reserves, simulating a deposit for

evaluating the mineral deposits. Geological surveys are also carried out by the Investigation

Division.

Statistical manpower in position in NMDC Ltd. is given below:

Professional: 4

Intermediate: 14

Primary: 14

Total 32


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21. NATIONAL SAFAI KARAMCHARIS FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

CORPORATION, NEW DELHI

National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation (NSKFDC), a

Government of India Undertaking under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment,’ was

incorporated under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956, on 24th January 1997 as a ‘company

not for profit’. The main objectives of the Corporation are to promote socio-economic upliftment

of Scavengers / Safai Karamcharis and their dependents by way of providing financial assistance

at concessional rate of interest for income generating activities and loans to students for

pursuing professional and technical education; and to provide technical and professional

training, quality control, technology upgradation, and common facility centers for carrying out

sanitation works.

The NSKFDC does not have any formal section for dealing with statistical activities. The

statistical activities of NSKFDC includes maintenance of annual accounts, loan accounting, bank

accounts, investment &Misc register/ledger, etc; maintenance record of sanctions, Loan

disbursement, utilization Certificates, number of beneficiaries, skill development training

programmes, etc. which are maintained by concerned Divisions.

No statistical publication is brought out by the NSKFDC. However, brochure, frequently

asked questions, lending policy & guidelines, etc, are prepared on need basis. Statistical

manpower in position in the Corporation is given below:

Professional: 4

Intermediate: 2

Primary: 9

Total 15


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22. NATIONAL TEXTILE CORPORATION LIMITED, NEW DELHI

National Textile Corporation Limited in the Ministry of Textile is a statutory body

established under an Act of Parliament in 1968 for managing the affairs of the sick textile

undertakings in the private sector, taken over by the Government. Presently, the entire activities

of NTC are being controlled from NTC Ltd., New Delhi with two Regional offices namely; NTC

Southern Regional Office, Coimbatore and NTC Western Regional Office, Mumbai. For the other

Regions, there are Sub Regional Offices.

All the statistical information pertaining to NTC Ltd., as a whole are collected from the

Regional Offices/Sub offices and are centrally monitored and processed at NTC Ltd., New Delhi

by the statistical unit under the MIS department.

Statistical manpower in position in National Textile Corporation Limited is given below:

Sl. No. Office Professional Intermediate Primary Total

1 NTC, New Delhi 1 3 0 4

2 Indore Sub Office 3 0 3 6

3 Kanpur Sub Office 0 4 2 6

4 Western Regional,

Office 1 0 2 3

Total 5 7 7 19


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23. NTPC LTD., NEW DELHI

NTPC Ltd. was incorporated on November 7, 1975 as National Thermal Power

Corporation Ltd. in Union Territory of Delhi. NTPC Ltd. is Public Sector undertaking under the

administrative control of Ministry of Power. The main objective of NTPC at the time of its

incorporation was to plan, promote and organize integrated and efficient development of

Thermal Power. With the passage of time, the objectives of NTPC have been enlarged. At present,

it is responsible to plan, promote and organize an integrated and efficient development of

Thermal, Hydel, Nuclear power and power through Non-conventional/Renewable Energy

sources in India and abroad.

NTPC does not have any Statistical Cell. It is working under SAP environment. Statistical

information are generated through Business Intelligence (BI) tools as per requirement. No

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24. NEPA LIMITED, NEPANAGAR

NEPA Limited (NEPA or the company) is a Public Sector undertaking under the

administrative control of the Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industry and

Public Enterprises. The company is located at Nepanagar in Burhanpur district of Madhya

Pradesh. Originally named “The National Newsprint and Paper Mills Limited”, its name was

changed to NEPA LTD. with effect from February 21st 1989. The company has three Regional

Offices at Delhi, Mumbai and Bhopal. Originally NEPA was a single product Company producing

standard Newsprint. NEPA is now able to meet the demand across all categories of Newsprint

customers. NEPA has also recently initiated the manufacture of Economy newsprint by using

old newspaper(ONP) and over issue newspaper(OINP), to cater to the requirement of the lowest

segments of the market at minimal of cost.

The Statistical activities of the company include furnishing Annual Survey of Industries

Return to NSSO, and to maintain the price index information. The Section does not bring out

any statistical publication. The Manager (Internal Audit) functions as the Statistical officer of

the company. There are no statistical posts as such in the company.


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25. OIL & NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LIMITED (ONGC),

NEW DELHI

In order to develop the oil and natural gas resources in the various regions of the country,

an Oil and Natural Gas Directorate was set up by the Government in 1955 as a subordinate

office under the then Ministry of Natural Resources and Scientific Research. In 1956, the

Directorate was raised to the status of Commission with enhanced powers within Govt. to

plan, promote, organise and implement programmes for development of Petroleum Resources

and the production and sale of petroleum and petroleum products. In February 1994, ONGC

was re-organized as a limited Company under the Company’s Act, 1956.

There is no dedicated E & S Section or Statistical Unit responsible for the job of data

collection, compilation and reporting as it is being carried out through SAP based on Line system.

The existing E&S personnel in ONGC have been merged into the Human Resources discipline.

There is no statistical manpower in ONGC Ltd. However data produced as part of

administrative activities is compiled by regular staff in addition to their normal duties.


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26. PEC LIMITED, NEW DELHI

PEC Ltd. was incorporated in April 1971 as Public Sector Undertaking under Ministry of

Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India. The company is engaged in export of engineering

equipment and projects specially from small and medium enterprises, besides export and import

of bulk items viz. agro commodities, edible oil, bullion, industrial raw materials, domestic trade,

etc.

PEC does not have a separate unit as a statistical unit of the Corporation. However, all

statistical data reports, MOU, etc. are prepared by a Specialized Section of Finance headed by

Chief General Manager (F). The Finance Division is mainly responsible for assisting the top

Management in fixation of annual turnover targets, organizing periodic reviews and monitoring

of performance by top Management against set out target as per MOU. For this purpose, data

is collected periodically from various divisions of the Corporations. The data thus collected is

then compiled and tabulated in the form of a corporate performance report brought out every

fortnight and made available to Management. MIS Section also coordinates with various

Ministries, trade bodies, Parliament etc. and provides them with the requisite information/

data pertaining to PEC. The Section also assists the top Management in formulation of corporate

policies on important matters.

Statistical manpower in position in Management Information Service Section (MIS) of

the Finance Division is given below:

Professional: 2

Intermediate: 2

Primary: 0

Total 4


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27. RASHTRIYA ISPAT NIGAM LTD., VISHAKHAPATNAM

The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited was set up as a company in Feb. 1982 for constructing,

commissioning and operating the steel plant at Vishakhapatnam. It is the first coast based

steel plant of India with modern technologies. It has an installed capacity of 3 million tonnes

per annum of liquid steel & 2.656 million tonnes of saleable steel. In order to meet the stringent

demands of discerning customers within India and abroad, there is emphasis on total

automation, seemless integration and efficient upgradation for wide range of long and structural

products.

The Nigam does not have a Statistical Department. All officers are required to apply

statistical techniques in their own areas as per the need. About 500 non- statistical officers

have been trained on the application of statistical techniques at Training Development Centre.

Statistical manpower in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited is given below:

Professional: 2

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 0

Total 2


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28. SPICES TRADING CORPORATION LTD (STCL ), BANGALORE

Spices Trading Corporation Ltd. is a Govt. of India undertaking functioning under the

administrative control of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and also a wholly owned a

subsidiary of the State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. STC Ltd was originally incorporated as

Cardamom Trading Corporation Limited in the year 1982, and was renamed as Spices Trading

Corporation Limited in 1987. The Company is engaged in trading of agricultural and non-

agricultural commodities including minerals and metals in the domestic as well as international

markets. STCL is a premier organization involved in Exports, Imports and Domestic trading of

diverse range of commodities. STCL’s main objective is to extend to the world, the age-old

excellence of Indian quality products as well as to make available quality products to Indian

consumers by importing from global source markets.

STCL being a trading Company has a full-fledged finance division and maintains the

accounts including quantitative details of purchase and sales in a computerized accounting

system. The company is not having separate statistical office and all statistical information,

generated by Finance and Accounts Departments, is maintained by the Department itself.

Statistical manpower in position in the Corporation is given below:

Professional: 0

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 15*

Total 15

*:- Administrative/Finance Division staff, also engaged in statistical compilation of administrative

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29. STATE TRADING CORPORATION OF INDIA (STC) LIMITED,

NEW DELHI

The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. (STC) was set up in 1956 primarily with a

view to undertake trade with East European Countries and to supplement the efforts of private

trade and industry in developing exports from the country. It is registered as an autonomous

company under the Companies Act, 1956 and functions under the administrative control of

the Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India. STC undertakes exports, imports and domestic

marketing operations in a large number of items and has, over the years, played a crucial role

in developing the foreign trade of the nation.

The Management Services Group (MSG) of STC acts as a statistical unit of the

Corporation. The MSG is presently headed by a Chief General Manager. It comprises of

Management Service Division, Computer Cell and Market Research and Information Division.

These Divisions are broadly responsible for collection of data periodically from various divisions/

branches of the Corporation, and its compilation/tabulation in the form of a corporate

performance report brought out every fortnight and made available to STC to assist the

Management in fixation of annual turnover targets, organizing periodic reviews and monitoring

of performance by the top Management against set out targets; Collection of international

market intelligence (Such as demand, supply, prices etc.) on commodities of particular interest

to STC continuously through Reuter’s Video Monitor and dissemination of the same to the STC

Management and respective Ministries of the Govt. of India for facilitating strategic decisions

with regard to purchase and sale, and ; exploring possibilities of entering into new items of

exports and imports or new markets by collecting necessary data/information from internet,

books, periodicals etc. and preparing commodity/country specific reports for use by various

trading divisions of STC.

Statistical manpower in position in the STC Ltd. is given below:

Professional: 13

Intermediate: 02

Primary: 02

Total 17


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30. WESTERN COALFIELDS LIMITED, NAGPUR

Western Coalfields Limited is one of the eight Subsidiary companies of Coal India Ltd.

The company came into existence on 1st November, 1975, after re-organization of the

Nationalized Coal Industry. Later, keeping in view the tremendous growth potential, it was

bifurcated, with effect from January 1986, into South Eastern Coalfields Limited and the present

Western Coalfields Limited (WCL). The present WCL has mining operation spread over in the

States of Maharashtra (in Nagpur, Chandrapur & Yeotmal District) and in Madhya Pradesh ( in

Betul and Chhindwara Districts).

There is a Statistical Section in the company which is responsible for collection of coal

related data on the basis of Daily/Monthly performance reports from the areas and; detailed

Monthly/Annual data on Production, Despatches, Pit Head Vendible Closing Stock etc. This

section provides detailed data on Coal Grades, Number of mines, production, dispatches, Pit

head Vendible Closing stock and productivity in terms of OMS (output per Manshifts) with

respect to mines and appropriate level viz. Area, State and Company level. The Section brings

out Daily Production Reports, Monthly Performance Reports, Annual Performance Reports,

and Over Views.

Statistical manpower in position in the Western Coalfields Limited is given below:

Professional: 1

Intermediate: 0

Primary: 7

Total 8


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Appendix-I

Statistical Personnel inCentral Ministries/Independent Departments/ Organisations

Number of Statistical Personnel

Sl. No. Ministries Professional Intermediate Primary Total

1. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

1.01 Department of Agriculture and Cooperation

1.01.01 Agriculture Census Division 4 3 2 9

1.01.02 Directorate of Economics and Statistics 14 18 3 35

1.01.03 Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices 1 4 1 6

1.01.04 Directorate of Marketing and Inspection,Faridabad 2 2 5 9

1.01.05 Directorate of Cashewnut and CocoaDevelopment 0 1 0 1

1.01.06 National Oilseeds and Vegetable OilsDevelopment Board 1 0 0 1

1.01.07 Directorate of Rice Development, Patna(Agri & Coop) 0 0 1 1

1.01.08 Horticulture Division 1 0 0 1

1.02 Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying andFisheries (DADF) 12 3 6 21

1.02.01 Coastal Aquaculture Authority

1.03 Department of Agricultural Research and Education(DARE)

1.03.01 Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Orissa 1 0 1 2

1.03.02 Indian Institute of Horticulture Research,Bangalore 1 2 0 3

1.03.03 Central Research Institute for Dry landAgriculture, Hyderabad 1 1 0 2

1.03.04 Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute,Barrackpore, West Bengal 4 2 5 11

1.03.05 Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute,New Delhi 88 98 10 196

1.03.06 Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore 2 2 0 4

1.03.07 National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources,Lucknow, U.P. 1 0 0 1

1.03.08 National Academy of Agricultural ResearchManagement, Hyderabad 2 1 1 4

1.03.09 Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad 2 0 0 2

1.03.10 Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar,UP 6 5 2 13

1.03.11 Central Plantation Crops Research Institute,Kasargod, Kerala 3 2 0 5

1.03.12 National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources,New Delhi 3 0 0 3

Total 149 144 37 330


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2. MINISTRY OF CHEMICAL AND FERTILIZER

2.01 Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals

2.02 Department of Pharmaceuticals 1 1 4 6

2.03 Department of Fertilizer 2 1 0 3

Total 3 2 4 9

3. MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION

3.01 Directorate General of Civil Aviation 5 4 0 9

3.02 Bureau of Civil Aviation Security

3.03 Airports Authority of India 6 6 2 14

Total 11 10 2 23

4. MINISTRY OF COAL 2 3 16 21

5. MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

5.01 Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion 2 1 5 8

5.01.01 Office of the Economic Adviser to GOI 2 3 2 7

5.01.02 Office of Controller General, Patents, Designsand Trade Marks (known as IntellectualProperty Office-IPO)

5.02 Department of Commerce

5.02.01 Directorate General of Foreign Trade 4 7 4 15

5.02.02 Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals 3 3 28 34

5.02.03 Directorate General of Commercial Intelligenceand Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata 17 55 278 350

5.02.04 Marine Products Export Development LAuthority (MPEDA) 2 1 0 3

5.02.05 The Rubber Board 11 1 13 25

5.02.06 Spices Board 3 0 6 9

5.02.07 Tea Board of India 3 4 16 23

5.02.08 Coffee Board 1 2 0 3

5.02.09 Tariff Commission 1 1 0 2

Total 49 78 352 479

6. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY

6.01 Department of Posts 1 0 5 6

6. 02 Department of Telecommunication 1 1 3 5

6. 03 Department of Information Technology

6.03.01 National Informatics Centre

Total 2 1 8 11

7. MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLICDISTRIBUTION

7.01 Department of Consumer Affairs 0 2 4 6

7.01.01 National Test House

7.01.02 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

7.02 Department of Food and Public Distribution

7.02.01 Directorate of Sugar


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7.02.02 Directorate of Vanaspati, Vegetable Oils and Fats 0 1 1 2

7.02.03 National Sugar Institute, Kanpur 1 0 0 1

Total 1 3 5 9

8. MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS 3 2 8 13

9. MINISTRY OF CULTURE 1 3 0 4

9.01 National Achieves of India

9.02 Archaeological Survey of India

9.03 Anthropological Survey of India Kolkata 1 3 7 11

Total 2 6 7 15

10. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 17 18 50 85

10.01 MIS Cell in Acquisition Wing

10.02 Army Headquarters

10.03 Naval Headquarters

10.04 Air Headquarters

11. MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERNREGION

11.01 North Eastern Council Secretariat

12. MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES

12.01 Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) 15 31 31 77

13. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS 1 0 0 1

13.01 Indira Gandhi Forest Academy, Dehradun

13.02 National Museum of Natural History

13.03 Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 0 0 3 3

13.04 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun

13.05 Indian Council of Forestry Research andEducation(ICFRE), Dehradun 1 3 0 4

13.06 Forest Survey of India 13 24 128 165

Total 15 27 131 173

14. MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

15. MINISTRY OF FINANCE

15.01 Department of Economic Affairs

15. 02 Department of Expenditure 1 2 4 7

15. 03 Department of Revenue

15.03.01 Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) 8 7 33 48

15.03.02 Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)

15.03.03 Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) 1 0 0 1

15.03.04 Directorate of Enforcement

15.04 Department of Disinvestment

Total 10 9 37 56

16. MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES 1 0 0 1

17. MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

17.01 Department of Health and Family Welfare 14 30 0 44

17.01.01 Central Bureau of Health Intelligence 1 3 0 4


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17.01.02 National Institute of Communicable Diseases 2 2 6 10

17.01.03 All-India Institute of Hygiene and PublicHealth (AIH&PH), Kolkata 8 8 0 16

17.01.04 National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore 3 5 4 12

17.02 Department of AYUSH 2 2 2 6

17.03 Department of Health Research

17.03.01 National Institute of Medical Statistics 13 16 18 47

17.04 Department of AIDS control

Total 43 66 30 139

18. MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES AND PUBLICENTERPRISES

18.01 Department of Heavy Industry

18.02 Department of Public Enterprises

19. MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

19.01 Department of Home

19.01.01 Office of the Registrar General of India 185 297 1983 2465

19.01.02 National Crime Records Bureau 1 2 0 3

19.01.03 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

19.01.04 Central Industrial Security Force

19.01.05 Directorate General of Indo-Tibetan BorderPolice (DG-ITBP)

19.01.06 Directorate General of National SecurityGuards (DG-NSG)

19.02 Department of Official Languages

Total 186 299 1983 2468

20. MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTYALLEVIATION 5 9 0 14

21. MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 4 7 4 15

21.01 National Council of Educational Research and Training(NCERT) 8 2 3 13

Total 12 9 7 28

22. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING 2 16 42 60

22.01 Office of Registrar of Newspapers of India 0 0 2 2

Total 2 16 44 62

23. MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT 4 2 3 9

23.01 Directorate General of Employment & Training 1 2 30 33

23.02 Directorate General Factory Advice Service and LabourInstitute , Mumbai 2 1 1 4

23.03 Labour Bureau, Shimla 14 48 201 263

23.04 Director General of Mines Safety, Dhanbad 3 11 7 21

Total 24 64 242 330

24. MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

25. MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES 6 48 100 154

25.01 Khadi & Village Industries Commission 4 21 24 49


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25.02 Coir Board

Total 10 69 124 203

26. MINISTRY OF MINES

26.01 Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) 2 21 4 27

26.02 Geological Survey of India

27. MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS

28. MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

29. MINISTRY OF OVERSEAS INDIAN AFFAIRS

30. MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ

31. MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS

32. MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES ANDPENSIONS

33. MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 0 2 1 3

34. MINISTRY OF POWER

34.01 Central Electricity Authority 0 1 5 6

35. MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 29 491 934 1454

36. MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGH WAYS 3 2 8 13

37. MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

37.01 Department of Drinking Water Supply 1 0 6 7

37.02 Department of Land Resources 0 0 0 0

37.03 Department of Rural Development 2 2 7 11

37.03.01 National Institute of Rural Development(NIRD) 5 0 0 5

Total 8 2 13 23

38. MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

38.01 Department of Bio-Technology (DBT) 1 0 0 1

38.02 Department of Science and Technology 4 1 3 8

38.02.01 National Atlas and Thematic MappingOrganisation (NATMO) 2 4 0 6

38.03 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR)

38.03.01 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 28 19 8 55

Total 35 24 11 70

39. MINISTRY OF SHIPPING 3 2 8 13

39.01 Chennai Port Trust 3 4 2 9

39.02 Cochin Port Trust 2 6 4 12

39.03 Mormugao Port Trust 1 2 8 11

39.04 Mumbai Port Trust 5 9 24 38

39.05 Paradip Port Trust 1 1 3 5

39.06 Vishakhapatnam Port Trust 5 7 13 25

Total 20 31 62 113

40. MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT 1 0 0 1

41. MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMMEIMPLEMENTATION


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41.00.01 Central Statistical Organisation 75 66 57 198

41.00.02 National Sample Survey Organisation 148 1190 1538 2876

41.00.03 Programme Implementation 4 0 0 4

Total 227 1256 1595 3078

42. MINISTRY OF STEEL 9 28 0 37

43. MINISTRY OF TEXTILES

43.01 Office of the Development Commissioner forHandicrafts 1 0 0 1

43.02 Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms

43.03 Office of the Jute Commissioner 0 1 0 1

43.04 Office of the Textile Commissioner 9 14 37 60

43.05 Central Silk Board

Total 10 15 37 62

44. MINISTRY OF TOURISM 4 4 8 16

45. MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS 4 0 0 4

46. MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

47. MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES 9 1 0 10

47.01 Central Soil and Materials Research Station

47.02 Central Water Commission 10 15 19 44

47.03 Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune 3 0 1 4

47.04 Central Ground Water Board 1 0 0 1

Total 23 16 20 59

48. MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2 0 0 2

48.01 Central Social Welfare Board 2 0 0 2

Total 4 0 0 4

49. MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS

49.01 Department of Youth Affairs

49.02 Department of Sports

INDEPENDENT DEPARTMENTS

50. DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY

51. DEPARTMENT OF SPACE

52. PLANNING COMMISSION

52.01 Labour, Employment and Manpower Division 1 1 0 2

52.02 Perspective Planning Division (PPD) 1 0 0 1

52.03 Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO) 3 3 1 7

Total 5 4 1 10

53. RESERVE BANK OF INDIA 249 $ 0 153 402

54. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

55. CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION

56. COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA 1 0 0 1

57. UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Total 1196 2763 5970 9929

$: Also Includes Intermediate personnel.


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Appendix – II

Statistical Personnel in DES of States / UTs

Sl. States/UTs Statistical Personnel in DES Statistical Personnel in Line Departments Grand

No. Total

Professional Intermediate Primary Total Professional Intermediate Primary Total

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

1. Andhra Pradesh* 203 365 874 1442 430 1872

2. Arunachal Pradesh 10 34 170 214 33 47 46 126 340

3. Assam* 621 162 783

4. Bihar* 654 15 669

5. Chattishgarh* 195 263 458

6. Goa* 171 171

7. Gujarat* 152 361 513

8. Haryana 69 143 89 301 286 265 186 737 1038

9. Himachal Pradesh* 115 574 689

10. Jammu & Kashmir 477 654 615 1746 0 1746

11. Jharkand 0 233 53 286 22 147 64 233 519

12. Karnataka* 191 496 380 1067 657 1724

13. Kerala* 1788 686 2474

14. Madhya Pradesh 56 266 344 666 143 734 511 1388 2054

15. Maharashtra* 1696 693 2389

16. Manipur* 323 0 323

17. Meghalaya 22 25 33 80 35 86 116 237 317

18. Mizoram 14 22 63 99 26 103 24 153 252

19. Nagaland 11 201 231 443 0 443

20. Orissa 1836 1478 3314

21. Punjab 43 50 234 327 23 57 495 575 902

22. Rajasthan$ 233 731 781 1745 0 1745

23. Sikkim* 23 75 28 126 0 126

24. Tamil Nadu* 116 215 1109 1440 0 1440

25. Tripura* 172 145 317

26. Uttar Pradesh 206 1778 788 2772 289 309 1361 1959 4731

27. Uttarakhand 6 94 22 122 1 68 126 195 317

28. West Bengal 53 243 628 924 26 131 829 986 1910

Total-States 1733 5625 6442 21523 884 1947 3758 12053 33576

Union Territories

29. A&N Island 12 81 14 107 107

30. Chandigarh 1 1 5 7 14 12 11 37 44

31. D&N Haveli 2 4 0 6 2 5 0 7 13

32. Daman & Diu 2 2 5 9 3 8 11 22 31

33. NCT of Delhi 4 15 69 88 18 152 416 586 674

34. Lakshadweep 1 4 9 14 2 16 6 24 38

35. Puducherry 17 34 14 65 21 71 41 133 198

Total - UTS 39 141 116 296 60 264 485 809 1105

TOTAL 1772 5766 6558 21819 944 2211 4243 12862 34681

* Breakup for statistical personnel in different categories is not available separately for both DES and LineDepartments $ : includes 141 statistical personnel of Line Departments


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Appendix – III

Statistical Personnel in Central Public Sector Undertakings

Sl. No. Public Sector Undertakings No. of Statistical Personnel in Position

Professional Intermediate Primary Total

1 2 3 4 5 6

1. Airports Authority of India, New Delhi 6 6 2 14

2. Andrew Yule & Co. Ltd., Kolkata 0 10 11 21

3. Bharat Coking Coal Ltd, Dhanbad 2 0 0 2

4. Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limted.,Chennai 1 0 1 2

5. Bharat Pumps & Compressors Ltd., Allahabad 1 1 0 2

6. Central Coalfields Ltd., Ranchi 1 2 0 3

7. Central Electronics Ltd., Shahibabad 1 1 3 5

8. Central Mine Planning & Design Institute LLimited, Ranchi 1 0 0 1

9. Central Warehousing Corporation, New Delhi 2 3 0 5

10. Container Corporation of India Ltd.,, New Delhi 0 1 1 2

11. Cotton Corporation of India Ltd., Mumbai 1 1 3 5

12. Electronics Corporation of India, Hyderabad 0 0 0 0

13. Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited, Kochi 0 0 0 0

14. Gail (India) Ltd., New Delhi 0 0 0 0

15. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Bangalore 29 22 2 53

16. Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd., Pimpri, Pune 4 0 3 7

17. Hindustan Photo Films, Ootacamund 0 2 0 2

18. H.M.T. Ltd., Banglore 10 7 1 18

19. National Fertilizers Ltd., Noida 0 1 5 6

20. National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. ,Hyderabad 4 14 14 32

21. National Safai Karamcharis Finance andDevelopment Corporation, New Delhi 4 2 9 15

22. National Textile Corpn. Ltd. , New Delhi 5 7 7 19

23. National Thermal Power Corporation Limited,New Delhi 0 0 0 0

24. NEPA Ltd. , Nepanagar 0 0 0 0

25. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., 0 0 0 0

26. PEC Limited, New Delhi 2 2 0 4

27. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. , Vishakapatnam 2 0 0 2

28. Spices Trading Corpn. Ltd., Bangalore 3 2 13 18

29. State Trading Corporation of India Ltd., New Delhi 13 2 2 17

30. Western Coalfields Ltd., Nagpur 1 0 7 8TOTAL 93 86 84 263

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