Q. Consider the following statements regarding the National Data Bank (NDB) for Socio-Religious Categories:

1. It is maintained by MoSPI.
2. It was created on Sachar Committee advice.
3. It collects fresh primary field data daily.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 1 and 2 only
Notes: The National Data Bank (NDB) for Socio-Religious Categories is a centralized web portal: Statement 1 – Correct: The NDB is developed, hosted, and maintained by the Computer Centre of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). Statement 2 – Correct: Setting up a National Data Bank to store socio-economic and educational data for all socio-religious categories was one of the core recommendations of the High-Level Committee headed by Justice Rajinder Sachar (2006). Statement 3 – Incorrect: The NDB does not carry out daily primary field surveys. Instead, it serves as a single-window aggregation platform compiling existing secondary data from Census tables, NSSO sample surveys, District Level Household Surveys (DLHS), and Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) datasets.