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…
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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…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) As India launched the Consumer Price Index (CPI) series with 2024 as the base year, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran has said the change better reflects household spending patterns, makes poverty estimates more accurate, adding that the new findings reveal income growth and productivity gains.The new CPI series found rising service consumption, as the share of food in domestic budgets declined and more accurate data will help fiscal and monetary policy …
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) does not expect a significant change in India’s GDP growth estimates after the release of the revised national accounts series in February next year, MoSPI Secretary Saurabh Garg said on Tuesday.“Too early to say on its impact on GDP numbers. In general, we don’t expect much change from our previous expectations,” Garg told journalists here.The government is set to release the new GDP series along wi…
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is organising the second pre-release consultative workshop on the base revision of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Index (CPI), and Index of Industrial Production (IIP) at the Bharat Mandapam here on Tuesday.The primary objective of the workshop is to share the proposed methodological and structural changes in the ongoing base revision of the GDP, the CPI, and the IIP for seeking feedback an…