National Statistics Day 2022: Remembering about the iconic PC Mahalanobis
This year's National Statistical Day celebration marks the 129th birth anniversary of the Professor
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This year's National Statistical Day celebration marks the 129th birth anniversary of the Professor
There was a time in India’s post-Independence economic history when Calcutta conquered Delhi. PC Mahalanobis, the professor from Calcutta’s Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), saw early the potential of big data — seven decades before the term became fashionable — in planning
Every census in Independent India from 1951 to 2011 has published data on SCs and STs, but not on other castes Will a caste census trigger a disaster or settle the demand of many political parties? While it plays such a dominant role in our social, economic, and political life, it is strange that
India’s nearly 15 crore farmers and 42 crore people in the unorganised sector together contribute nearly 72% of the country’s GDP. The share of agriculture was at 19.9% in 2020-21 while the unorganised sector contributed 52% of the GDP in FY-2018. The long spell of the pandemic has hit these two sectors; it has created hunger and unemployment on a massive scale. Financial