The rural development ministry carried out the SECC in collaboration with the housing ministry, Registrar General of India, and state governments. In 2015, the NDA government compiled and released the economic data but withheld the caste data citing overlap and incorrect categorisation
False and acrimonious debates such as Modi versus Manmohan might allow for victories that are political and partisan.
But the real loser is the nation, India and Bharat, notes Arvind Subramanian, former chief economic advisor to the Modi government in its first term.
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"There is practically a consensus among academics and policymakers on the robustness and representativeness of the NSS survey methodology, which is replicated across other surveys such as the NFHS and the PLFS," a paper noted. The statistics ministry, in a reply in Lok Sabha, instead pointed out that they stood by the robustness of surveys and that the claims around survey problems were rooted in faulty approaches.
It is now appropriate to look at where we were till 2014 and where we are now, only for the purpose of drawing lessons from the mismanagement of those years, said FM Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the interim budget for the next financial year