The Sixth Economic Census operations have been initiated with the launching of two-day Master Trainers’ Training Programme from Monday. The operations are to be completes in two months.
The progress regarding the operations was reviewed at a high-level meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary BK Patnaik today where Secretary of Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Dr TCA Ananta and State Development Commissioner JK Mohapatra were present.
The present census would provide a framework to access contributions of various sectors of economic activities to follow up surveys. All establishments located in the State would be counted in the census. It has been planned to cover around 96,000 enumeration blocks within May and -June.
As many as 24,000 Enumerators and Supervisors have been identified mostly taken from departments like Education, Agriculture, Panchayati Raj anf ST & SC Development and the Directorate of Economic Survey. The Collectors have been designated as District Economic Census Officers. It has been decided to use the ICR Technology for processing of schedules.
The Chief Secretary advised the functionaries to collect data from primary sources covering various sectors of economic activities and livelihood operations.