State-level training for 7th Economic Census 2019 held in Kohima

KOHIMA: A State-level training of trainers (SLTOT) for the 7th Economic Census 2019 was held in Kohima on Monday. During the inaugural program, Assistant Director of NSSO, Chinneivah Haokip, said the census will be conducted in a span of three months starting from June. It'll cover the entire nation including organized and unorganized sectors.

“In this census, we will be using an ICT platform developed by Common Service Center (CSC) under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology that means the validation, super scrutiny and scrutiny by supervisors will be done through the mobile apps itself. Therefore in less time we will be able to publish the figures.”

She said CSC is the implementing agency in developing the platform, NSSO and the Directorate of Economics and Statistics will assist with capacity and manpower. She added that obtaining quality data should be the utmost importance considering the inexperienced field workers under CSC.

Joint Director and Nodal Officer for 7th EC, Neisatuo Puro highlighted on the functions of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, CSC E-Governance Services India Limited, Field Operations Divisions, State Government, District Magistrate, etc., in regard to the 7th Economic Census.

After the SLTOT for the census, training workshops in all the districts and sub-divisions will be organized during the month of May and June, stated a DIPR release.

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