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The deficiencies found in the MCA-21 database of the corporate sector, where more than a third of the sample companies were either untraceable, out of coverage, or closed, will not have a major impact on the calculation of GDP and GVA, according to prominent statisticians closely associated with the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
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A recent report by the National Sample Survey Organisation titled &amp;lsquo;Technical Report on Service Sector Enterprises in India&amp;rsquo; found that nearly 38% of the companies it surveyed using the MCA-21 database were unusable for data collection purposes. About 21% were designated &amp;ldquo;out of coverage&amp;rdquo;, 12% as untraceable, and 4.5% as closed. The government has started using the MCA-21 database to calculate the Gross Domestic Product and the Gross Value Added. The deficiencies in the database have alarmed a section of economists, who pointed out that this weakens the integrity of the national accounts data. However, noted statisticians The Hindu spoke to said this was not the case.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;In the sample we took from the MCA-21 database, about 36% of the firms don&amp;rsquo;t exist,&amp;rdquo; Pronab Sen, former Chief Statistician of India said. &amp;ldquo;That doesn&amp;rsquo;t surprise me one bit. The reason is we know that the MCA-21 contains shell companies. But, when you have shell companies in the MCA-21, and they are submitting their balance sheets regularly, they are very much a part of what I am measuring.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;The question is whether this is wrong, and the answer is no,&amp;rdquo; Mr. Sen added. &amp;ldquo;Because, if I don&amp;rsquo;t measure their output, I am not capturing a part of GDP. Shell companies are benami companies where you have a legitimate company doing a legitimate business, but for tax purposes is routing a lot of transactions through the shell company. The value creation is happening. If I ignore that, I am saying value creation is not happening, which is wrong.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;Not being able to reach a company at a particular address means that the address is wrong, not that the production is not happening,&amp;rdquo; a senior government official associated with the Ministry of Statistics explained. Also, as growth rates are measured over a period of time, the major factor that would affect them is the regularity with which the companies being measured file their returns, the official added.&lt;br /&gt;
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The deficiencies found in the MCA-21 database of the corporate sector, where more than a third of the sample companies were either untraceable, out of coverage, or closed, will not have a major impact on the calculation of GDP and GVA, according to prominent statisticians closely associated with the subject.<br />
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The deficiencies found in the MCA-21 database of the corporate sector, where more than a third of the sample companies were either untraceable, out of coverage, or closed, will not have a major impact on the calculation of GDP and GVA, according to prominent statisticians closely associated with the subject.<br />
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&ldquo;In the sample we took from the MCA-21 database, about 36% of the firms don&rsquo;t exist,&rdquo; Pronab Sen, former Chief Statistician of India said. &ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t surprise me one bit. The reason is we know that the MCA-21 contains shell companies. But, when you have shell companies in the MCA-21, and they are submitting their balance sheets regularly, they are very much a part of what I am measuring.&rdquo;<br />
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&ldquo;The question is whether this is wrong, and the answer is no,&rdquo; Mr. Sen added. &ldquo;Because, if I don&rsquo;t measure their output, I am not capturing a part of GDP. Shell companies are benami companies where you have a legitimate company doing a legitimate business, but for tax purposes is routing a lot of transactions through the shell company. The value creation is happening. If I ignore that, I am saying value creation is not happening, which is wrong.&rdquo;<br />
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&ldquo;Not being able to reach a company at a particular address means that the address is wrong, not that the production is not happening,&rdquo; a senior government official associated with the Ministry of Statistics explained. Also, as growth rates are measured over a period of time, the major factor that would affect them is the regularity with which the companies being measured file their returns, the official added.<br />
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Please <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/mca-21-missing-companies-will-not-affect-gva-growth-calculation/article27071211.ece">click here</a> to read more. <br />
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Shell companies in MCA-21 submitting balance sheets regularly very much part of measurement, says former chief statistician

The deficiencies found in the MCA-21 database of the corporate sector, where more than a third of the sample companies were either untraceable,...'
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'Firms missing from database will not affect GDP calculation' -TCA Sharad Raghavan

-The Hindu Shell companies in MCA-21 submitting balance sheets regularly very much part of measurement, says former chief statistician The deficiencies found in the MCA-21 database of the corporate sector, where more than a third of the sample companies were either untraceable, out of coverage, or closed, will not have a major impact on the calculation of GDP and GVA, according to prominent statisticians closely associated with the subject. A recent report by the National Sample Survey Organisation titled ‘Technical Report on Service Sector Enterprises in India’ found that nearly 38% of the companies it surveyed using the MCA-21 database were unusable for data collection purposes. About 21% were designated “out of coverage”, 12% as untraceable, and 4.5% as closed. The government has started using the MCA-21 database to calculate the Gross Domestic Product and the Gross Value Added. The deficiencies in the database have alarmed a section of economists, who pointed out that this weakens the integrity of the national accounts data. However, noted statisticians The Hindu spoke to said this was not the case. “In the sample we took from the MCA-21 database, about 36% of the firms don’t exist,” Pronab Sen, former Chief Statistician of India said. “That doesn’t surprise me one bit. The reason is we know that the MCA-21 contains shell companies. But, when you have shell companies in the MCA-21, and they are submitting their balance sheets regularly, they are very much a part of what I am measuring.” “The question is whether this is wrong, and the answer is no,” Mr. Sen added. “Because, if I don’t measure their output, I am not capturing a part of GDP. Shell companies are benami companies where you have a legitimate company doing a legitimate business, but for tax purposes is routing a lot of transactions through the shell company. The value creation is happening. If I ignore that, I am saying value creation is not happening, which is wrong.” “Not being able to reach a company at a particular address means that the address is wrong, not that the production is not happening,” a senior government official associated with the Ministry of Statistics explained. Also, as growth rates are measured over a period of time, the major factor that would affect them is the regularity with which the companies being measured file their returns, the official added. Please click here to read more.