The State Government has constituted a state-level committee for smooth operation of the 7th Economic Census 2019 in the state. In the Committee constituted under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, the Principal Secretary Planning, Economic and Statistics has been made State Nodal Officer and Commissioner Economic and Statistics is Member Secretary.
Additional Chief Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development and principal secretaries of Labour, Industrial Policy and Investment Promotion, Finance, Urban Development and Housing and Revenue Department have been made members in the 11-member committee. Deputy Director General, Regional Office National Sample Survey Organisation and State Head Common Service Centre will also be members of the committee.
The Committee will monitor preparations, progress and obstructions in the work of census at the state level. The responsibilities of the committee will include ensuring the full coverage of the existing database like the Business Register of the State, preparing the report on the authenticity of the figures on the basis of supervision by the observers of the State and regional offices, calculation of the feedback obtained from the District Level Coordination Committee and redressal of the difficulties being faced in census work.
The Committee will also make general public and business organizations aware of census work. The committee will also endorse the state-level provisional census results. The Committee will present its report to the Planning, Economic and Statistics Department. The tenure will be till the end of the 7th Economic Census work.