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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Mar, 2019
Over 100 economists and scientists on Thursday expressed concerns over
"political interference" in the estimation of statistical data in India
and urged for institutional independence of statistical institutions.
A
statement signed by as many as 108 experts said that economic
statistics is a public good and necessary for policy-making in
democracies for informed public discourse.
They said the
involvement of NITI Aayog and the removal of back series GDP data from
the website of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) damaged the
integrity of NSSO and the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
They said NITI Aayog is a statistical body and does not have any expertise in statistical data collection.
They
said that India's statistical institutions never faced political
influence and enjoyed high-level of reputation due to the integrity of
their data for many years, which is now being ruined.
The experts
urged professional economists and statisticians to raise their voice
against the tendency "to suppress uncomfortable data" and force the
government to restore the integrity of Indian statistical institutions
and their estimated data.
The appeal comes in the backdrop of recent controversy of NSSO withholding employment data.
The
signatories of the statement include include Rakesh Basant of Indian
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Satish Deshpande from Delhi
University, Hema Swaminathan (IIM, Bangalore), Rohit Azad (Jawaharlal
Nehru University), R. Ramakumar (TISS, Mumbai), University of
Massachusetts at Amherst's James Boyce and Emily Breza from Harvard
University.
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