Chief secretary & chairman, state level co-ordination committee (SLCC) on 7th economic census, J. Alam convened a meeting to examine the provisional report of the 7th economic census in the conference hall of the secretariat, Kohima on Satruday.
According to a DIPR report, additional director & HOD, department of economics & statistics, Neidilhou Angami stated that the 7th economic census was conducted to enumerate establishments and entrepreneur units located in a geographical area which were involved in any economic activities including household enterprises, engaged in production or distribution of goods and services in non-farm agriculture sectors, with the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (SPI) as nodal department at ministry level.
Neidilhou briefed on the process and manpower involved in conducting the economic census. He stated that in Nagaland, the 7th economic census was launched in August 2019 and completed in April 2021.
The community service centres (CSC), e-governance service India Ltd., a platform of ministry of electronics & information technology has been selected as implementing agency by the ministry of SPI for developing ICT platform system and to conduct field work for the economic census.
For enumerators and supervisors, the CSC recruited enumerators for data collection for the whole district, and at the supervisor level there were two levels.
The first supervisor level was employed by the CSC and at the second supervisor level, it consisted of officials from the economics & statistics department and officials from the national sample survey office, ministry of SPI, to verify 10% of the data that was enumerated, Neidilhou informed.
Earlier, the chief secretary called for another meeting of the SLCC on 7th economic census. The meeting was attended by members of SLCC on 7th economic census.