In an order last week, the Department of Personnel and Training assigned additional charge of MoSPI Secretary to Garg, who currently holds the charge of Secretary, Department of Social Justice & Empowerment.
According to Chairperson Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar, while the National Statistical Commission has a broad mandate, it has only become an advisory body in practice
The statistics ministry will release Consumer Price Index inflation for February and the Index of Industrial Production for January at 5:30 pm on March 12.