DC Rajouri inaugurates workshop on 7th Economic census -2019
RAJOURI JUNE,04: Deputy Commissioner, Mohammad Aijaz Asad, today inaugurated a one-day workshop on 7th Economic Census for the Village Level Enumerators from the district.
During the workshop, the participants would be trained on the key concepts and definitions, processes, digital platform and application to be used for the enumeration (data capture and supervision) in the field.
The DC, while highlighting the importance of data collection, said that identification of the target group is must and it should be omission less because this data form the basis of the any social scheme.
He advised the participants to conduct a house to house survey for identification of establishments/target groups/households besides asking them to go through the manual so that first hand and reliable data should be collected.
Senior Statistical Assistant NSSO, Sunil K Khar, said that the census would cover all entrepreneurial units in the district which are involved in any economic activity of either agricultural or non-agricultural sector which are engaged in production, distribution of goods and services not for the sole purpose of own consumption.
It is pertinent to mention here that an IT based digital platform for data capturing, validation, report generation and dissemination will be used in this Economic Census.
The task would provide detailed information on operational and other characteristics such as number of establishments, number of persons employed, source of finance, type of ownership etc. and this information would be utilized for micro level planning and to assess contribution of various sectors of the economy in the GDP.
Prominent among others present in the workshop included Additional Deputy Commissioner, Sunderbani, Vinod Kumar Bengal, District Statistical and Evaluation Officer, Chaffer Singh, Assistant Director , District Consultant CSC Shahid Mehmood Malik, District Manager CSC, Atul Kapoor, District Manager CSC Supriya Talwar, Officer from the DSEO office.
