NSO Current Affairs, GK & News
Retail inflation in India in April
According to the data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), retail inflation in April is 7.79%. Rural inflation surged to a near 8-year high of 8.38%, whereas urban inflation was at an 18-month high of 7.09%. What is inflation? Inflation is the general rise in the prices of goods and services in an economy. ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022
Topics: Consumer Price inflation • Core inflation • CPI inflation • Food Inflation • NSO
NSO First revised FY21 GDP estimates
The National Statistical Office recently released the first revised GDP estimates for the fiscal year 2021. According to the estimates, the GDP contracted by 6.6%. Earlier, the GDP had contracted by 7.3%. The contraction is mainly due to COVID pandemic and the lockdown imposed. What do the estimates say? The real GDP for 2020-21 is ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Advanced estimates • Agriculture • Economic growth • Fiscal Year • Fishing • Forestry • GDP • gross asset value (GVA) • GVA • manufacturing sector • Mining • mining and quarrying sector • National Statistical Office (NSO) • Nominal GDP • NSO • oil and natural gas • Primary Sector • Real GDP • Secondary Sector • Water supply
Enrolments in ESIC Social Security Scheme increases to 821,000
On May 23, 2020, the payroll data of the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) was released. The data says that around 821,000 new members have joined ESIC social security scheme. Highlights The data was released by National Statistical Office (NSO). According to the data the subscribers to the scheme in 2018-19 were 14.9 million and ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2020
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: COVID-19 • ESIC • ESIC scheme • NSO • PFRDA • Social Security • Social Security Scheme • universal social security code
Standing Committee on Economic Statistics Constituted
On December 28, 2019, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation constituted standing committee on statistics. The objective of the committee is to improve data of the government. The committee will be headed by Chief Statistician Pronab Sen. Highlights The committee is set to meet on January 6, 2020. There are around 28 members forming ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Topics: Central Statistics Office (CSO) • Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) • NSO • standing committee • Statistics • Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
GoI: Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2017-18 not to be released due to quality issues
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme implementation said that it is not releasing Consumer Expenditure Survey due to quality issues. The next Consumer Expenditure Survey is to be conducted in 2020-21 and 2021-22. Highlights According to the National Statistical Office (NSO) functioning under the Ministry, there was significant increase in the divergence in the consumption ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2019
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Consumption expenditure • Economy • GDP • Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation • National Statistical Office (NSO) • NSO
NSO to be headed by Chief Statistician
The newly created National Statistical Organisation (NSO) will be headed by Chief Statistician of India (CSI) cum Secretary (Statistics and Programme Implementation). Why the Confusion? The central government order which cleared the merger of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) and Central Statistics Office (CSO) to create the NSO had only mentioned Secretary (Statistics and Programme ..
Topics: Central Statistics Office • Chief Statistician of India • CSO • Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation • National Sample Survey Office • National Statistical Organisation • NSO • NSSO