-Hindustan Times The NSSO report, findings of which were first published in Mint on Wednesday, found that 36% of the companies in the MCA-21 database maintained by the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) could not be traced or were wrongly classified. New Delhi: The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) has downplayed the controversy around India’s gross domestic product (GDP) data after a National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report raised serious...
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How India's statistical system was crippled -Pramit Bhattacharya
-Livemint.com The inside?story?of?the?decline?of a?globally renowned statistical system and its effect on Asia’s third largest economy New Delhi: Toothless. Powerless. Impotent. These are the adjectives used to describe India’s apex statistical organization, the National Statistical Commission (NSC). And these haven’t been hurled by its detractors but by three former members of the NSC who have been part of the commission at different points in time. The NSC shot to prominence in December last year after...
More »NSS report on services sector to be examined by committee: MoSPI
-PTI New Delhi: The statistics ministry Wednesday said an official committee will examine the NSS technical report on services sector enterprises, which has raised questions over the GDP data. The technical report of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has generated controversy following its observation that as much as 36 per cent units forming part of MCA-21 database, used in computing GDP, could not be either identifiable or traceable in the field. The...
More »Leaving out shell companies would seriously underestimate GDP: Former Chief Statistician -Dipak Mondal
-BusinessToday.com According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) there are around 9 lakh active companies are registered with the MCA after over 3.3 lakh companies were de-registered in two phases over 2017 and 2018 The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has found many holes in MCA-21 data used for GDP calculation, hinting that it probably overestimates the GDP. The former Chief Statistician of India Pronab Sen, though, has a completely different...
More »Not right to extrapolate no. of shell companies to GDP computation: Pronab Sen -KR Srivats
-The Hindu Business Line Such computation will underestimate GDP, says the former Chief Statistician The National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) recent study involving samples from the MCA-21 database has put the whole GDP computation methodology under fire, but on a wrong basis, according to former Chief Statistician of India Pronab Sen. The NSSO study had revealed that there are several more shell companies in the system than what the Centre realised. Having numerous...
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