About National Statistical Commission:
- It was set up in 2005 on the recommendations of Rangarajan Commission (2000).
- Mandate: It was established to serve as a nodal body for all core statistical activities of the country and also evolve, monitor and enforce statistical priorities and standards and to ensure statistical co-ordination.
- Composition:
- It consists of a part-time Chairperson, four part-time Members having specialization and experience in areas of statistics,
- CEO of NITI Aayog as an ex-officio Member.
- Chief Statistician of India is the Secretary of the Commission. (He is also the Secretary to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation).
- Functions of National Statistical Commission:
- To identify the core statistics, which are of national importance and are critical to the development of the economy;
- To constitute professional committees or working groups to assist the Commission on various technical issues;
- To evolve national policies and priorities relating to the statistical system;
- To evolve standard statistical concepts, definitions, classifications and methodologies in different areas in statistics and lay down national quality standards on core statistics;
- To evolve national strategies for the collection, tabulation and dissemination of core statistics, including the release calendar for various data sets
