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Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
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Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
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Agency overview
Jurisdiction Government of India
Annual budget4,859 crore (US$580 million) (2018–19 est.) [1]
Agency executive
Child agencies
  • Department of Statistics
  • Department of Programme Implementation
Website mospi.gov.in

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is a ministry of Government of India concerned with coverage and quality aspects of statistics released. The surveys conducted by the Ministry are based on scientific sampling methods.

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History

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) came into existence as an Independent Ministry on 15 October 1999 after the merger of the Department of Statistics and the Department of Programme Implementation.

Departments

The Ministry has two departments, one relating to Statistics and the other Programme Implementation. The Statistics department having the National Statistical Office (NSO) which consists of the (i) Central Statistical Office (CSO). (ii) Computer center. (iii) National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The Programme Implementation Wing has three Divisions, namely, (i) Twenty Point Programme (ii) Infrastructure Monitoring and Project Monitoring and (iii) Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme. Besides these two wings, there is National Statistical Commission created through a Resolution of Government of India (MOSPI) and one autonomous Institute, viz., Indian Statistical Institute declared as an institute of National importance by an Act of Parliament.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation attaches considerable importance to coverage and quality aspects of statistics released in the country. The statistics released are based on administrative sources, surveys and censuses conducted by the center and State Governments and non-official sources and studies. The surveys conducted by the Ministry are based on scientific sampling methods. Field data are collected through dedicated field staff. In line with the emphasis on the quality of statistics released by the Ministry, the methodological issues concerning the compilation of national accounts are overseen Committees like Advisory Committee on National Accounts, Standing Committee on Industrial Statistics, Technical Advisory Committee on Price Indices. The Ministry compiles data sets based on current data, after applying standard statistical techniques and extensive scrutiny and supervision.

Responsibilities

National Statistical Office (NSO) is mandated with the following responsibilities:

  1. acts as the nodal agency for planned development of the statistical system in the country, lays down and maintains norms and standards in the field of statistics, involving concepts and definitions, methodology of data collection, processing of data and dissemination of results;
  2. coordinates the statistical work in respect of the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India and State Statistical Bureaus (SSBs), advises the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India on statistical methodology and on statistical analysis of data;
  3. prepares national accounts as well as publishes annual estimates of national product, government and private consumption expenditure, capital formation, savings, estimates of capital stock and consumption of fixed capital, as also the state level gross capital formation of supra-regional sectors and prepares comparable estimates of State Domestic Product (SDP) at current prices;
  4. maintains liaison with international statistical organizations, such as, the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO), the International Labour Organizations (ILO), etc.
  5. compiles and releases the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) every month in the form of ‘quick estimates’; conducts the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI); and provides statistical information to assess and evaluate the changes in the growth, composition and structure of the organized manufacturing sector;
  6. organizes and conducts periodic all-India Economic Censuses and follow-up enterprise surveys, provides an in-house facility to process the data collected through various socio economic surveys and follow-up enterprise surveys of Economic Censuses;
  7. conducts large scale all-India sample surveys for creating the database needed for studying the impact of specific problems for the benefit of different population groups in diverse socio economic areas, such as employment, consumer expenditure, housing conditions and environment, literacy levels, health, nutrition, family welfare, etc.;
  8. examines the survey reports from the technical angle and evaluates the sampling design including survey feasibility studies in respect of surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Organizations and other Central Ministries and Departments;
  9. dissemination of statistical information on various aspects through a number of publications distributed to Government, semi-Government, or private data users/ agencies; and disseminates data, on request, to the United Nations agencies like the UNSD, the ESCAP, the ILO and other international agencies;
  10. releases grants-in-aid to registered Non-Governmental Organizations and research institutions of repute for undertaking special studies or surveys, printing of statistical reports, and financing seminars, workshops and conferences relating to different subject areas of official statistics;

Programme Implementation Wing responsibilities

  1. Monitoring of the Twenty Point Programme (TPP)
  2. Monitoring the performance of the country's 11 key infrastructure sectors, viz., Power, Coal, Steel, Railways, Telecommunications, Ports, Fertilizers, Cement, Petroleum & Natural Gas, Roads and Civil Aviation (IPMD);
  3. Monitoring of all Central Sector Projects costing Rs. 150 crore and above (IPMD); and
  4. Monitoring the implementation of Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).

Administration Division

Functions as the Cadre Controlling Authority to manage the Indian Statistical Service and Subordinate Statistical Service including matters like training, career and manpower planning; and acts as the nodal Ministry for the Indian Statistical Institute and ensures its functioning in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Statistical Institute Act, 1959 (57 of 1959).

Plans

The Ministry is looking at allotting a 16-digit Business identification number to each business establishment. Apart from helping the government create and maintain a comprehensive database on businesses, the unique number will also simplify a business' dealings with various governmental agencies by reducing chances of duplicate entities, resolving identity issues and saving time when going for future registrations or licences. [2]

Cabinet Ministers

No.PortraitMinister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency
Term of officePolitical partyMinistryPrime Minister
FromToPeriod
1 Atal Bihari Vajpayee tribute image (cropped).jpg Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for Lucknow

(Prime Minister)
13 October
1999
1 September
2001
1 year, 323 days Bharatiya Janata Party Vajpayee III Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2 Jagmohan.jpg Jagmohan
(1927–2021)
MP for New Delhi
1 September
2001
18 November
2001
78 days
3 Maneka-Gandhi.jpg Maneka Gandhi
(born 1956)
MP for Pilibhit

(MoS, I/C)
18 November
2001
30 June
2002
224 days
(1) Atal Bihari Vajpayee tribute image (cropped).jpg Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for Lucknow

(Prime Minister)
1 July
2002
22 May
2004
1 year, 326 days
3 Oscar Fernandes at launch of the Pilot Project for Cashless Treatment of Road Accident Victims on Gurgaon-Jaipur Stretch of NH-8.jpg Oscar Fernandes
(1941–2021)
Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka

(MoS, I/C)
23 May
2004
29 January
2006
1 year, 251 days Indian National Congress Manmohan I Manmohan Singh
4 GKVasan.jpg G. K. Vasan
(born 1964)
Rajya Sabha MP for Tamil Nadu

(MoS, I/C)
29 January
2006
22 May
2009
3 years, 113 days
5 Shriprakash Jaiswal delivering speech 2007 (cropped).jpg Sriprakash Jaiswal
(born 1944)
MP for Kanpur

(MoS, I/C)
28 May
2009
19 January
2011
1 year, 236 days Manmohan II
6 M. S. Gill 2020.jpg M. S. Gill
(1936–2023)
Rajya Sabha MP for Punjab
19 January
2011
12 July
2011
174 days
7 Srikant Kumar Jena addressing in New Delhi on November 18, 2013 (cropped).jpg Srikant Kumar Jena
(born 1950)
MP for Balasore

(MoS, I/C)
12 July
2011
26 May
2014
2 years, 318 days
8 Rao Inderjit Singh taking over as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Planning in May 2014 (cropped).jpg Rao Inderjit Singh
(born 1951)
MP for Gurgaon

(MoS, I/C)
27 May
2014
9 November
2014
166 days Bharatiya Janata Party Modi I Narendra Modi
9 India's Minister of State for External Affairs Vijay Kumar Singh (15760995677) (cropped).jpg (General)
V. K. Singh (Retd.)
PVSM AVSM YSM ADC
(born 1950)
MP for Ghaziabad

(MoS, I/C)
9 November
2014
5 July
2016
1 year, 239 days
10 D.V. Sadananda Gowda.jpg D. V. Sadananda Gowda
(born 1953)
MP for Bangalore North
5 July
2016
30 May
2019
2 years, 329 days
(8) Rao Inderjit Singh taking over as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Planning in May 2014 (cropped).jpg Rao Inderjit Singh
(born 1951)
MP for Gurgaon

(MoS, I/C)
31 May
2019
9 June
2024
5 years, 79 days Modi II
10 June
2024
Incumbent Modi III

Ministers of State

No.PortraitMinister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency
Term of officePolitical partyMinistryPrime Minister
FromToPeriod
1 Bangaru Laxman
(1939–2014)
Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat
13 October
1999
22 November
1999
40 days Bharatiya Janata Party Vajpayee III Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2 Arun Shourie cropped.jpg Arun Shourie
(born 1941)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
22 November
1999
1 September
2001
1 year, 283 days
3 Vijay Goel (cropped).jpg Vijay Goel
(born 1954)
MP for Chandni Chowk
1 July
2002
29 January
2003
212 days
4 Satyabrata Mookherjee speaking at a three-day Global Symposium on Taming the Future through Project Management in 2003 (cropped).jpg Satyabrata Mookherjee
(1932–2023)
MP for Krishnanagar
29 January
2003
22 May
2004
1 year, 114 days
(3) Vijay Goel (cropped).jpg Vijay Goel
(born 1954)
Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan
3 September
2017
30 May
2019
1 year, 269 days Bharatiya Janata Party Modi I Narendra Modi

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