-The New Indian Express The Survey of India plans to use drones to create a high-resolution map of every inch of India. It comes with unprecedented privacy and security challenges The Survey of India (SoI) has embarked upon an ambitious project of using drone imaging to create an ultra-high resolution spatial and topographic map of India. Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, calls it the biggest endeavour in Indian...
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Bias exists in Survey responses, but also in government's own telling - PC Mohanan
-The Indian Express The immediate cause for suspecting the genuineness of Survey responses is the divergence in the estimates of households with access to toilets. Differences between Survey estimates and comparable data from administrative sources are not surprising. The Survey data are believed to present a more realistic view, especially when it relates to access to public goods and services. Generally, the distrust is more on administrative data from implementing agencies. While...
More »Birth certificates are citizenship proof, Govt says. But 38% under-5 children don't have one -Swagata Yadavar & Disha Shetty
-India Spend New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Any document related to the date and place of birth can be submitted to prove citizenship for National Register of Citizens, the government has said, but a large number of Indians, especially older citizens, do not possess birth certificates, an IndiaSpend analysis shows. Three in five children (62.3%) under the age of five had their births registered and possessed a birth certificate in 2015-16, according to National...
More »No documents need to be produced for NPR: Union Home Ministry
-The Hindu “Details given by people to enumerators will be accepted,” Union Home Ministry spokesperson says. The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday clarified that no person needs to submit any documents during the house-to-house Survey for updating the National Population Register and that information provided by individuals would be accepted and recorded. Through a series of tweets, the Ministry sought to deny the thrust of a report in The Hindu headlined NPR trial...
More »MoSPI constitutes Standing Committee on Economic Statistics headed by Pronab Sen
-PTI The first meeting of the SCES is scheduled on January 6, 2020 The statistics ministry has constituted a 28 member Standing Committee on Statistics (SCES) chaired by former Chief Statistician Pronab Sen to improve quality of data amid criticism of the government over political interference. “The first meeting of the SCES is scheduled on January 6, 2020. The agenda would be very broad based. We will come to know about that only...
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