Overview

• This year’s National Statistics Day was observed on June 29 with MoSPI-led lectures and seminars under the theme “75 Years of National Sample Survey.”
• MoSPI unveiled key statistical reports on nutritional intake and SDG indicators alongside the GoIStat smartphone app to improve public access to official data.
• ISI Kolkata marked Mahalanobis’s 132nd birth anniversary by garlanding his bust and planting a sapling as part of its internal commemorations.
• NSO regional offices in Shillong, Dibrugarh and Jammu held programmes emphasising the NSS’s contributions to socio-economic planning and UN SDG monitoring.
• Celebrations paid tribute to Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis’s legacy in founding the ISI in 1931 and launching the NSS in 1950 to underpin modern data-driven governance.