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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-29012026-269634
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 16]
NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2026/MAGHA 2, 1947
MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 12th January, 2026
F.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:
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| (1) | Additional Director General, NSO, C&QCD, New Delhi | Chairperson |
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| (2) | Representative from NSO, C&QCD, New Delhi | Member |
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| (3) | Representative from NSO, HSD, Kolkata | Member |
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| (4) | Representative from NSO, EnSD, Kolkata (meetings with respect to | Member |
| | enterprise surveys) | |
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| (5) | Representative from NSO, FOD, New Delhi dealing with SE Survey | Member |
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| (6) | Directors, DESs-Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and | Member |
| | Mizoram | |
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| (7) | Concerned State Capital Regional Heads, NSO, FOD of these five | Member |
| | states | |
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| (8) | Deputy Director General, NSO, C&QCD, NEZ, Guwahati | Member Secretary |
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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
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Date: 2026.01.29 11:26:17 +0530