MoSPI begins 7th Economic Census from Tripura
- Government has started the 7th Economic Census from July 29, 2019 from Tripura state. The purpose of Economic Census is to get a complete count of all economic units in India. It will be launched in other states and union territories in August and September. The results are expected to be available by March 2020.
- The census is conducted by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). This time it is being conducted after a gap of 5 years, the last one was done in 2013. The first Economic Census took place in 1977.
- Implementing Agency for 7th Economic Census: CSC e-Governance Services India Limited has been selected as the implementation agency for the development of ICT platform system and conduction of fieldwork for the 7th Economic Census. It is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) formed under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY).
- As per the 6th Economic Census that was conducted in 2013, there were 58.5 million establishments employing around 131 million workers.
- Definition of Economic Census from Wikipedia: Indian economic census is the census of the Indian economy through counting all entrepreneurial units in the country which involved in any economic activities of either agricultural or non-agricultural sector which engaged in production and/or distribution of goods and/or services not for the sole purpose of own consumption.