Amid a raging debate on the quality of official data and the sampling methodologies followed, the government has renamed and expanded the scope of an existing standing committee headed by former chief statistician of India Pronab Sen.
The Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES) — constituted in December 2019 — has been turned into the Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS). It will have a two-year tenure for the chairman and its 16 members.
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