MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDET CHARGE), MINSTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME
IMPLEMENTATION AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS
AND FERTILIZERS (SHRI SRIKANT KUMAR JENA)
(a) to (c) : No Sir. However, the Government plans to conduct Sixth Economic
Census in order to provide up-to-date information on total number of establishments
according to their economic activity classification and total number of persons
employed therein upto village/ward level of the country for developing a frame of
these establishment to conduct further follow up surveys based on it. It is to
be conducted in collaboration with Directorates of Economics and Statistics in
the State and UT Governments. The services of National Institute of Design (NID)
has been hired only for designing the three Schedules viz. House and Establishment
Listing Schedule; Establishment Abstract and Directory of Establishment Schedule
to be used during Sixth Economic Census.
(d) & (e) : Yes Sir. The above said three schedules have been translated in
15 languages as per State/UT requirements. The languages covered are as under:-
Hindi, English, Assamese, Konkani, Manipuri, Oriya, Tamil, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati,
Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi
(f): The Scheme envisages releasing all-India report within one year of completion
of field work by all States and UTs. The start of field work of the Sixth Economic
Census is linked to the completion of ongoing Socio-Economic Caste Census in the
country and at present, the field work of the census is proposed to be undertaken
between Sep/Oct 2012 to Feb/March 2013.
