New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) India’s experience shows that integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into state and local planning can boost ownership and speed up progress across sectors, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman K. Bery said on Tuesday.An international workshop on peer learning around Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) and SDG implementation pathways began in the national capital, bringing together policymakers, experts and government officials from India and abroad to discuss ways…
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New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The government has spent over Rs 20 lakh crore on more than 1,700 ongoing infrastructure projects across the country, the Parliament was informed on Monday.In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Rao Inderjit Singh, said a total of 1,702 central sector projects, each costing Rs 150 crore and above, are currently under implementation.The minister added that these pro…
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) recorded a 4.8 per cent year-on-year growth in January, supported by 4.8 per cent growth in manufacturing sector and 5.1 per cent growth in electricity sector, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said on Monday.The Quick Estimates of IIP stands at 169.4 against 161.6 in January 2025. The Indices of Industrial Production for the mining, manufacturing and electricity sectors for the month of January 2026 stood a…
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) With real GDP now estimated to grow by 7.6 per cent in FY 2025–26, the Indian economy is set to record strong and sustained expansion, according to an official statement.This robust performance reinforces India’s growth momentum and strengthens its trajectory towards achieving the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat’, marked by higher productivity, resilience, and inclusive development.To this accord, the revision of the GDP base year to 2022–23 marks a significant step i…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran on Friday said there is no doubt that India will become the third largest economy in the course of the next few years, as the country’s real GDP growth rate was estimated at 7.8 per cent for Q3 FY26 in the new series with 2022-23 as the base year, and 7.6 per cent for the full financial year.Answering an IANS question at a press conference here, Nageswaran said that our growth rate post-Covid has been probably one of the…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) India’s gross domestic product growth for the third quarter of the current financial year (Q3 FY26) will likely remain elevated at 8.3 per cent, driven by demand fuelled by goods and services tax (GST) rate cut despite an unfavourable base effect, a report has said.The report from Union Bank of India said that gross value added growth for Q3 FY26 likely improved to 8 per cent from 6.5 per cent in Q3 FY25, though it may be marginally slower than the 8.1 per cent recorde…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) As the new GDP series (with base year 2022–23) is scheduled to be released on Friday, a sub-committee set up by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has also recommended an enhanced use of GST data in the new series for GDP estimates.The report of the sub-committee forms part of the process launched by MoSPI to revise the base year of the National Accounts to FY 2022–23.In the 2011-12 series, GST data were used to compile the Quarterly Nati…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) A sub-committee set up by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has recommended enhanced use of GST data in the new series for GDP estimates with 2022-23 as the base year. The report of the sub-committee on the incorporation of new data sources, rates, and ratios, released on Tuesday, forms part of the process launched by MoSPI to revise the base year of the National Accounts to FY 2022–23.The new series (Base: 2022–23) is scheduled to be re…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The focus must shift from merely building data‑centre capacity to ensuring resources deliver public‑interest outcomes across health, education and agriculture, senior policy makers said on Friday.At the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ here, a working report on “Opening Up Computational Resources for New AI Futures,” was launched.The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the report and the session saw speakers stressing “demand aggregation…
Washington, Feb 17 (IANS) India is turning to artificial intelligence, expanded labour surveys, and tax data integration to modernise one of the world’s largest statistical systems, its chief statistician said, as demand grows for faster, more granular economic data. Saurabh Garg, secretary of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, in a recent interview podcast with the IMF, said the country continues to rely on door-to-door surveys but has shifted to tablet-based data col…