Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

Publication of the Draft Notification regarding reconstitution of the Committee to monitor fund flow and to assess the overall impact and execution of NSS work of central sample in North East Zone.

Issue Date: 01 August 2025 Published: 02 August 2025

Gazette ID: CG-DL-E-02082025-265181 Download PDF

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Core Purpose

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation re-constitutes the Monitoring Committee for National Sample Survey work in the five North-Eastern States, superseding previous notifications.

Detailed Summary

This notification, issued by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on July 23, 2025 (No. 240/ZO/NEZ/MCM/DES/2022-23), re-constitutes the Monitoring Committee for National Sample Survey (NSS) work in the North-Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, and Sikkim. This re-constitution supersedes earlier notifications, specifically No. O-120011/1/2004-Admn. III. dated 01.08.2007 and No. N-11011/15/2018-NSSO(CPD) dated 12.07.2018, which had originally constituted the committee to ensure systematic, time-bound, and economical survey conduct. The re-constituted committee's mandate extends beyond reviewing funds flow to assessing the overall impact and execution of NSS work in the NE Region. Its membership includes officials from various divisions of the National Statistical Office (NSO) such as C&QCD (NEZ, Guwahati and New Delhi), HSD (Kolkata), EnSD (Kolkata), FOD (New Delhi), Directors of Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DESs) of Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, and Mizoram, and Concerned State Capital Regional Heads, NSO, FOD of these five states. The Additional Director General, NSO, C&QCD, NEZ, Guwahati serves as Chairperson, and Director/Joint Director, NSO, C&QCD, NEZ, Guwahati as Member Secretary. The committee's terms of reference include reviewing grants-in-aid utilization, assessing further grant requirements, preparing action plans for survey activities, assessing training and infrastructure needs, reviewing survey progress, planning quality field inspections and data scrutiny, planning resource deployment for survey work, data processing, tabulation, and dissemination of state sample data, and monitoring expenditure flow. The committee is required to meet at least once a quarter and submit status reports and recommendations to the Central Government. The notification is signed by M. S. Subramanya Rao, Dy. Director General.

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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-02082025-265181 EXTRAORDINARY PART I-Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025/SHRAVANA 10, 1947 MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 23rd July 2025 No. 240/ZO/NEZ/MCM/DES/2022-23— The issue of conducting surveys of National Sample Survey in the five North- Eastern States namely- Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and Sikkim in a more systematic, time bound and economical way had been considered by the Government some time during 2007. Accordingly, a Monitoring Committee for each of the States had been constituted vide a notification No. O-120011/1/2004-Admn. III. dated 01.08.2007 & No. N-11011/15/2018-NSSO(CPD) dated 12.07.2018. 2. The mandate of Monitoring Committee is not only to review the funds flow but also assess the overall impact and execution of NSS work in NE Region. With this wider prospective and in supersession of earlier notification, the Monitoring Committee is re-constituted as under: | (1) Additional Director General, NSO, C&QCD, NEZ, Guwahati | Chairperson | | (2) Representative from NSO, C&QCD, New Delhi | Member | | (3) Representative from NSO, HSD, Kolkata | Member | | (4) Representative from NSO, EnSD, Kolkata (meetings with respect to enterprise surveys) | Member | | (5) Representative from NSO, FOD, New Delhi dealing with SE Survey | Member | | (6) Directors, DESs-Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram | Member | | (7) Concerned State Capital Regional Heads, NSO, FOD of these five states | Member | | (8) Director/Joint Director, NSO, C&QCD, NEZ, Guwahati | Member Secretary | 3. The broad terms of references of Monitoring Committee are as under: a. Reviewing the utilization of grants-in-aid received from Central Government for survey work; b. Assessing the requirement of further sanction of grants-in-aid by the Central Government with reference to the survey requirements; c. Preparing action plan for surveys activities; d. Assessing training and infrastructure needs for carrying out survey work in an effective manner; e. Reviewing progress of surveys work periodically and taking remedial steps; f. Planning quality field inspections and quality scrutiny of survey data; g. Planning deployment of resources for survey work, data processing and tabulation; and dissemination of state sample data; h. Monitoring the flow of expenditure periodically; 4. The Committee is expected to meet at least once in a quarter and submit status report and recommendations to the Central Government from time to time. M. S. SUBRAMANYA RAO, Dy. Director General Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. GORAKHA NATH YADAVA Digitally signed by GORAKHA NATH YADAVA Date: 2025.08.02 11:13:56+05'30'

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