The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for
Statistics and Programme Implementation Shri Srikant Kumar Jena has said
that the economic census has not been conducted so far after it was
conducted in the year 2005, which happened to be the fifth economic
census. This census is conducted generally once in five years.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha he said, to provide
up-to-date information on number of non-agricultural establishments,
number of agricultural establishments excluding crop production and
plantation and also number of workers engaged by such establishments, as
well as their distribution by State, District and Village/Ward level
for comprehensive analysis of the structure of the Economy, it has been
decided to conduct the Sixth economic census during October 2012- June
2013. The conduct of Sixth economic census has been approved with an
outlay of Rs.763.49 crore.
He said, the Sixth economic census is to be conducted in collaboration
with all the State Governments and Union Territory Administrations, who
are to engage enumerators and supervisors for conducting the field
work. For monitoring of field work, data processing and validation, and
writing of reports, it has been envisaged to create an economic census
cell in each State/UT and also at the Centre. Accordingly Government has
approved creation of 30 posts at the centre and 235 posts in the
States/ UTs for the purpose.
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