(ET)
Niti Aayog, India’s key policy think tank, has begun work on a roadmap that will suggest steps to swiftly tackle quality issues confronting official data. NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar has chaired two rounds of high-level meetings to chalk out a roadmap to prevent leakages and establish credibility of data, which has seen a major dent in the past after government tried to suppress bad news. The move comes close on the heels of a controversy over the consumption survey that was subsequently junked by the government on data quality concerns.
It also comes amid a move by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) to address data quality issues of various surveys, introducing checks for data collection apart from increasing the sample size of surveys to improve accuracy.
