The first phase of 7th Economic Survey 2019 of Chhattisgarh will commence from August 16, which will cover all the 20082 villages and 9364 urban areas in 27 districts.
The survey will be conducted on primary basis first in 8446 villages and 3765 urban enumeration blocks. It will be carried out by trained enumerators appointed by commence service centre. Supervision will be done for quality work by National Statistical Office’s senior statistical officers and officers of Directorate of Economic and Statistics, Government of Chhattisgarh and officers of District Business Centres.
Already training has been imparted to the enumerators for the work. A state-level coordination committee has been constituted under chief secretary for coordination of the survey. It will review the preparation, progress and try to remove any hitch during the process. The committee will also compare the last year’s data with present data obtained through 7th survey.
Additional to it, district level coordination committee has been formed under district collector. During the survey as per the rules each family and commercial establishment data will be collected. Data will be kept confidential. For first time instead of formats and paper based data collection, mobile application will be used. Roshan Lal Sahu, Deputy Director General, National Statistical office will chair the state-level steering committee.
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 developmental schemes.