-TheWire.in In the last five years, India’s exports of agricultural commodities have gone down from $43.25 billion in FY 2014 to $39.20 billion in FY’2019. The run-up to the RCEP leader summit in Bangkok last week was truly amazing. While farmers and trade union activists from both the Left and Right were opposed to India signing the RCEP, the Government seemed to be in two minds. Indeed, senior ministers were reluctant...
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Consumption expenditure survey: Government to scrap report over bad data -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times On Friday, Business Standard released leaked findings from the 2017-18 CES which showed that inflation-adjusted average monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) declined by 3.7% in the country between 2011-12 and 2017-18, a first in four decades. The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MOSPI) has decided “not to release the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) results of 2017-2018” in view of “data quality issues”, it said in a statement. On Friday,...
More »Govt scraps NSO's consumer expenditure survey over 'data quality' -Somesh Jha
-Business Standard The findings of the report, published by Business Standard on Friday, showed consumer spending falling for the first time in over four decades in 2017-18 The Government has decided to scrap the National Statistical Office’s (NSO’s) consumer expenditure survey conducted in 2017-18 over “data quality”. “In view of the data quality issues, the Ministry (of Statistics and Programme Implementation) has decided not to release the consumer expenditure survey results of 2017-2018....
More »Centre withholds consumer expenditure survey citing data quality issues
-PTI Government's statement comes after a report has claimed the survey results were put on hold owing to its "adverse" findings. The Statistics and Programme Implementation Ministry (MOSPI) on Friday said it has decided not to release the Consumer Expenditure Survey results of 2017-18 due to data quality issues. The MOSPI also mentioned that an expert panel has recommended that 2017-18 would not be an appropriate fiscal to be used as a base...
More »eNam should not be forced on farmers, says Sanjay Kaul -Suresh P Iyengar
-The Hindu Business Line Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s advice to State Governments to dismantle the Agricultural Produce Market Committees and move on to eNAM (electronic National Agriculture Market) has raised many eyebrows as the three-year-old nascent online platform is still facing teething troubles. Addressing the sixth World Congress on Rural and Agricultural Finance earlier this week, Sitharaman said, “I want to place emphasis on eNAM. We are trying to get the...
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