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No Plan to Grant Autonomy to National Statistical Commission: Union Government - The Wire

The Union government told the Rajya Sabha on Monday (July 31) that it has no plans to empower the National Statistical Commission (NSC) using a legislation.

Minister of state for statistics and programme implementation Rao Inderjit Singh was answering a question on whether the government is planning to empower the NSC by insulating the selection process from political bias.

Singh responded that said the chairman and members of the NSC are selected on the basis of the recommendations of a search committee constituted by the government from time to time. “In view of this, at present, there is no such proposal under consideration,” he said, according to the Business Standard.

There are also no proposals on providing the NSC with financial autonomy and creating a technically equipped entity with statutory powers to oversee the statistical system, he added.

India’s data collection and release mechanisms have come under criticism under the Narendra Modi government, as government has sought to keep several reports under wraps because of unflattering data. The 2021 Census, postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, has still not taken place.

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