7 th economic census

Government mulls creating national business register, may spend Rs 300 crore in economic census 

MoSPI has roped in CSC e-governance, also known as CSC SPV, for conducting the seventh economic census. 

NEW DELHI: The government plans to create a business enterprise register that will have details of all kind of businesses being run in the country as it gears up to conduct a nationwide economic census in 2019-20, a top official said Thursday. 

"We propose to build a business enterprise register which can be regularly updated and utilised by all stakeholders– state and central government," Pravin Srivastava, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), said at  .. 

Started in 1977, till date only six economic censuses have been done due to massive work involving in-depth survey and data compilation. Tyagi said that as per estimate there are 20 crore households across the country and an enumerator is expected to be paid between Rs 15-20 per household which implies that even at conservative estimate government expenditure on the economic census will be upward of Rs 300 crore.


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