A field force of 12,506 enumerators and 4,472 supervisors would go door to door with hand-held devices armed with a mobile application for taking up the Seventh Economic Survey in Telangana from September.
The mobile app is being used for the first time for the countrywide survey being taken up by the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) to know about the entrepreneurial units engaged in the production and distribution of goods and services.
As part of the survey, all the establishments – unorganised or organised and rural or urban – would be covered.
Data would be collected on the basic characteristics of the establishments like the nature their economic activity, number of persons engaged and the type of ownership.
The work has been assigned to CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd., a special purpose vehicle working under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
State-level workshop
This was disclosed at the state-level workshop conducted at Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy HRD Institute here on Tuesday. The MOSPI has already conducted six economic censuses so far with the first conducted in 1977 and the last in 2013.
The National Statistics Office (NSO) would monitor the survey with the support of the Department of Economics and Statistics, Government of Telangana, Department of Industries, MSME and other stakeholders.
Deputy Director General, NSO, D. Satish, Director of Directorate of Economics and Statistics A. Surdarshan Reddy, State head of CSC-Telangana J. Raja Kishore and others participated in the workshop.
