The controversy around government surveys in India

A panel under the chairmanship of India’s former chief statistician Pranab Sen will review the conduct of all statistical surveys conducted by the government

The union government has made a committee under the chairmanship of India’s former chief statistician Pranab Sen to review the conduct of all statistical surveys conducted by the government. The decision follows a public debate initiated by at least three economists associated with the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) on the robustness of the existing survey-based data. To be sure, questions and doubts around government surveys are neither unprecedented nor unwarranted. However, it is important to look at them

Questions around govt surveys are neither unprecedented nor unwarranted and we dissect the same in a holistic manner here. (HT file photo)