Survey of India Current Affairs, GK & News
Annual Report of Periodic Labour Force Supply
On June 3, the National Statistical Office launched the Annual Report of Periodic Labour Force Survey. Key Findings According to the survey, the worker population ratio increased to 35.3% as compared to 34.7% in 2017-18. The unemployment rate fell to 5.8% in the period July 2018 to June 2019 as compared to 6.1% in the ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: domestic workers • labour • National Statistical Office (NSO) • Survey of India • Unemployment
RBI launches OBICUS
On April 16, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India launched OBICUS. This is the 49th round of survey by the apex bank for the period January to March. Highlights The Capacity Utilisation declined to 68.6% from 69.1%. What is OBICUS survey? OBICUS is Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilization Survey (OBICUS). The survey provides an ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: Capital • capital goods • inventory-based model • manufacturing sector • OBICUS • RBI • Survey of India
COVID-19: “Sahyog” Mobile application launched by Survey of India
The Survey of India has launched a mobile application called “Sahyog” to collect information about COVID-19 specific data sets through community engagement. Highlights The application will help to increase response activities of the GoI towards the pandemic. The data collected through the Sahyog application will be used to enhance other applications such as “Arogya Setu” ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Anganwadi workers • Arogya Setu • ASHA • contact tracing • Geospatial Technology • ICMR • mobile application • Public Awareness Campaign • sahyog • Survey of India
Unemployment Rate in India has increased to 23% due to Lock Down
The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) recently released a survey on the current unemployment situation in India. According to the survey, more than 20% of Indian Economy has lost their jobs since the lock down. Highlights The report said that the unemployment rate for the month of March is expected to be 8.7% as ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Business • CMIE • Construction sector • Economic slow down • India's Think Tank • manufacturing sector • Mining • Survey of India • Think tank • Unemployment
Madhya Pradesh to use drones for mapping villages
The state government of Madhya Pradesh recently announced that drones would be used in land surveys for mapping the villages. The Revenue department of Madhya Pradesh has signed agreement in this regard with the national mapping agency, Survey of India. The land survey work is being done manually or with the assistance of satellite images, ..
Topics: Drone • Government of Madhya Pradesh • Survey of India