CENTRAL
TRAINING FACILITY FOR STATISTICS PERSONNEL
The Minister of State
for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Shri Vijay Goel,
has said that the Government will set up a Central Training Facility
for training the statistics personnel in the country. He also
said that the Government would take steps for correcting the deficiencies
and revamping the current statistical system.
Shri Goel was
inaugurating the two-year training programme of the 26th
batch of the Indian Statistical Service (ISS) Officers here today.
The Minister
emphasised the important role of statistics for planning the economic
development of the nation. He advised the Statisticians to reduce
the time gap between collection of data and the final output.
He said that the recommendations of the National Statistical Commission
were under active consideration of the Government.
The Indian Statistical
System is decentralised by territory and subject. At the Centre,
the various Ministries are responsible for official statistics
on their subjects. The Officers of ISS, manning the Directorates/Statistics
Cells in the Central Ministries, organise the collection, compilation
and dissemination of statistics.
