The first phase of 7th Economic Survey 2019 of Chhattisgarh began in all the 27 district headquarters on Saturday.
The survey will cover all the 20082 villages and 9364 urban enumeration blocks of the state’s 27 districts. At capital city Raipur, Raipur Municipal Corporation Commissioner Shiv Anant Tayal flagged off the process.
Earlier, from January 15, 2013 to March 31, 2013 the economic survey was conducted in 19567 villages, 10 municipal corporations, 32 municipal councils and 126 nagar panchayats under 6th Economic Survey.
According to that survey in Chhattisgarh there were 7,73,661 institutions and 10% of them were being run by women.
As per the survey, Rajnandgaon has 1649 villages, the highest in the state. Dantewada has the least, 223 villages. Of the other districts Raigarh has 1463 villages, Mahasamund 1145 villages and Kanker has 1017 villages. Raipur district has 491 villages where survey will be conducted.
Similarly, among urban areas Durg district with 1836 enumeration blocks and Raipur district with 1735 blocks, occupy first and second position respectively. Narayanpur district has least 21 urban blocks followed by Bijapur with 28 and Sukma district with 29.
The survey is being conducted with the help of mobile app.
The first economic survey was held in 1977 after which 6 surveys had taken place. Based on the results, National Business Register is made. It is then used for policy making and preparing developmental schemes.