-IANS It didn't take long for fake notes of 2,000 rupees to start circulating after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation in November 2016, with one of its stated aims being to kill counterfeit currency, official Data show. According to the National Crime Records Bureau's (NCRB) latest report released on November 30, a total of 2,272 fake notes of Rs 2,000 denomination were seized in 2016. Since the Rs 2,000 note --...
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No Delhi Data on car fumes
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Pollution may be at alarming levels in Delhi but the state transport department does not have annual Data on the number of "Pollution Under Control " certificates issued by it, the Central Information Commission has lamented. The CIC has pulled up department officials for "sheer indifference" and directed them "to compile and publish" the numbers of PUC certificates after verifying that the vehicles meet emission norms. An RTI applicant,...
More »RTI Response Raises Serious Questions About Security, Handling of EVMs -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Discrepancies between Election Commission and Electronics Corporation of India Limited Data on number of ballot units and control units manufactured have also been revealed. New Delhi: The response by the Election Commission (EC) and two electronic voting machine (EVM) manufacturers – Electronics Corporation of India Limited and Bharat Electronics Limited – to an Right to Information (RTI) query relating to a petition filed following the Uttarakhand polls has revealed administrative and...
More »TCA Anant, Chief Statistician of India and Secretary -- MoSPI, interviewed by Vikas Dhoot and TCA Sharad Raghavan (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The Chief Statistician of India on the economy, the meaning of the new series of GDP data, and the need to wait for the impact of demonetisation to unfold T.C.A. Anant is the Chief Statistician of India, and Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. He has been in charge of several notable changes in the way economic Data has been recently presented, including the new GDP and Gross Value...
More »Why crime Data do not always add up to the complete picture -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express Low crime rate numbers often don’t mean citizens are safer, and ‘rape capital’ and ‘crime capital’ could both be unfair assessments. In reports such as the one published by the National Crime Records Bureau last week, the quality of Data is important, as is its placement in the right context. New Delhi: “It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts...
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