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NR Bhanumurthy, professor of economics at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and author of the series presented in a report to the National Statistical Commission, interviewed by Abhishek Waghmare (Business Standard)

-Business Standard "Under the new GDP series, there has been reallocation of a few items from one sector to another, from services to manufacturing sectors" The back series data of GDP released recently by a panel of experts has evoked sharp reactions among political circles and experts. N R Bhanumurthy, professor of economics at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and the author of the series, presented in a report...

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GDP grew in double digits twice in UPA era -Asit Ranjan Mishra

-Livemint.com The estimates of GDP and other related aggregates for the period 1993-94 to 2013-14 have been calculated by an NSC committee using a so-called production shift method New Delhi: India’s economy grew in double digits twice during the previous United Progressive Alliance government (UPA) under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 10.23% in 2007-08 and 10.78% in 2010-11, according to back series calculations by a committee appointed by the National Statistical Commission. However, the...

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New EPF enrolment during Sep., 2017 to Apr., 2018 confined to a few industries & states, indicates data

  A document of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) dated 25th June, 2018 says that the number of members subscribing to the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) scheme gives one an idea of the level of employment in the formal sector viz. mostly employment in establishments employing 20 or more persons (though EPF is applicable for certain organisations, which employ less than 20 persons, subject to certain conditions and...

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The paradox of job growth -R Nagaraj

-The Hindu Besides the missing informal sector, over-estimation of output growth also offers clues Are the latest employment estimates by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) factually correct? No. They are off the mark, and confined to the economy’s organised or formal sector, accounting at best for 15% of the workforce. Is there a paradox in high output growth rates and the marginal effect on employment? Probably not, if one acknowledges that GDP...

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State's Forest Department's status report on 17,000 trees to be cut -Pankaj Jain

-India Today Noida: The Delhi High Court has put a stay till July 4 to not to cut any more trees in the Capital, putting on hold a controversial mega-project in the city to make way for government officers' houses and a commercial complex. India Today has the exclusive statistics of a status report prepared by the Forest Department officials of the Delhi Government on 17,000 trees to be cut for the...

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