The 7th Economic Census is to begin from next month, providing insights into all economic activities and ownership patterns of businesses across the country. The survey fieldwork is scheduled to start in June.
The government has decided to use mobile applications for conducting the census which will eventually speed up the process of collection of analysis.
The introduction of the geo-tagging would result in finding out the distribution of economic activity in a particular place. To conduct the analysis, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is partnered with CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd (CSC SPV).
A CSC statement said, “The 7th economic census will be done using a mobile application. There will be two rounds of supervision to ensure the quality of the census”.
While on the same matter, MoSPI Secretary Pravin Srivastava said at an All India training of trainers workshop on census held at New Delhi, “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”.
The CSC run common services centres (CSC), which are the access points of social welfare services, delivery of essential public utility services, healthcare, education and agricultural services, financial, host of B2C (business to consumers) services to citizens in urban, rural and remote areas of the country.
“Conducting 7th economic census is very 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.
MoSPI DG (ES and Survey) Jyotirmoy Poddar on the occasion said, “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”
