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Labour bureau to release new working-class inflation index on October 21
In the new series, the base year for calculating the CPI-IW will be updated from 2001 to 2016. The new series has been necessitated by changing consumption habits, relative prices of various commodities and spending patterns of the country’s workforce in regular jobs
India’s unemployment rate hit 45-year high in 2017-18: Report
The survey has become a political issue after the acting chairman and another member of the body that reviewed the job data resigned saying there was delay in its release.
Updated on Jan 31, 2019 02:06 PM IST
New Delhi | Reuters
Members never discussed concerns, says govt over National Statistical Commission resignations
The government on Wednesday sought to control the fallout of the resignation of the chairman and an external member of the National Statistical Commission (NSC) by clarifying that the reasons given by them for their exit were never discussed in meetings.
Published on Jan 30, 2019 11:00 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Whose data is it anyway?
We need strongly independent bodies such as the National Statistical Commission which can bravely present data and context without worrying about what this says about which government
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 06:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
After exits from statistics body, govt clarifies on job report, GDP data
The ministry of statistics and programme implementation said the members didn’t express any concerns in any of the meetings of the commission in the last few months.
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 03:57 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent