Govt to use mobile app for 7th
Economic Census beginning next month
Partners with CSC e-Governance services India Ltd to
conduct the census.
The
Statistics Ministry has decided to use a mobile phone application for conducting
7th economic census beginning next month, which will speed up the process of
data collection and analysis.
The census will provide insights into all economic activities and ownership patterns
of businesses across the country. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation (MoSPI) partnered with CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd (CSC
SPV) to conduct the census.
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“The 7th the economic census will be done using a mobile application. There will be two
rounds of supervision to ensure the quality of the census,” a CSC statement said.
The CSC
run common services centers (CSC), which are the access points for delivery of
essential public utility services, social welfare schemes, healthcare,
financial, education and agriculture services, apart from a host of B2C (business
to consumers) services to citizens in urban, rural and remote areas of the
country.
“We are
planning to start the economic survey fieldwork in June and are expecting more
than 6,000 training workshops to take place within a month for CSC enumerators.
We are starting with a state level workshop in Madhya Pradesh and gradually
will be spreading across all the states with the district level workshops,”
MoSPI Secretary Pravin Srivastava said at an All India training of trainers
workshop on census held at New Delhi.
Geo-tagging
The
ministry is also introducing geo-tagging which will help to find out the
distribution of economic activity in a certain place, Srivastava said in the
statement.
“We have
proposed to start the survey fieldwork from June 1 and the field work will be
finished in 3 months only from the date of commencement and simultaneously
results will be out in the phased manner. Nine lakh enumerators and 3 lakh
supervisors will be involved in performing the survey,” informed MoSPI DG (ES
and Survey) Jyotirmoy Poddar on the occasion.
Village-level
entrepreneurs have different skills and capabilities, and they have proved it
time and again. VLEs have sold more than 30 lakh Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi
Pension Yojana (PMSYM) in short span of time and this has created momentum at
the local level. They do advocacy and campaigning for providing government services to the people, CSC SPV CEO Dinesh Tyagi said.
“Conducting The 7th economic census is unique and will set a precedent for the entire
country for carrying out a large-scale survey work like this. We have already
done one round of training at the block level and I ensure that we will do best
of our commitment,” he added.
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