Finance Commission says will 'reconcile data' after row over statistics

A group of more 100 top economists had earlier this year expressed concerns over 'political interference' in statistical data.

The 15th Finance Commission will "reconcile data" from several sources for its report, said N K Singh, the panel's chairman, responding after a controversy over India’s key economic data

Singh said senior Finance Commission officials will study data over the next two days, but their work will not be about computation methods.

"We will try to reconcile and come to a conclusion on what we would consider reliable data in the public domain," Singh told reporters, adding the exercise will be carried out with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Reserve Bank.

"We may or may not succeed, but at