Statisticians two days conference begins tomorrow at Panaji

Centre and states' official statisticians will exchange views and discuss common issues related to statistical activities during a two day long conference scheduled to begin tomorrow.
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is organizing the Conference of Central and States Statistical Organizations (COCSSOs) at Panaji in Goa on January 23-24, a press statement said.
This Conference is being organised in collaboration with Goa Government.
As per the recommendations of the National Statistical Commission, the statistics ministry organizes a Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (COCSSOs) every year, which provides a platform for the Central and State Statisticians to exchange views and discuss common issues relating to statistical activities.

This is a major forum for coordination between the Central and State Statistical agencies with the objective of putting in coordinated efforts for making available reliable and timely statistics to planners and policy makers, not only in government but also in private corporate sector for objective decision making.
During the conference, important issues such as Labour and Employment Statistics, Annual Survey of Service Sectors, IT initiatives in Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and Local level Statistics would be discussed.
Besides, Green National Accounting for India, 13th Finance Commission's Recommendations, progress on 6th Economic Census, India Statistical Strengthening Project (ISSP) and the working of Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 will also figure in the deliberations.

Members of the National Statistical Commission, National Sample Survey Organisation's officials, Centre Statistical Organisation, and other senior officials of the ministry and other central ministries, states government officials and the heads of the directorate of economics and statistics (DESs) from the states and UTs would participate in the conference.