Our Correspondent
Imphal, Aug. 23 (EMN): The first-phase of the 7th Economic Census was launched at the district headquarters of Manipur on Friday.
The first-phase will cover Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Kakching and Jiribam while the second-phase which will be launched on September 9 will be cover Senapati, Kangpokpi, Tamenglong, Noney, Churachandpur, Pherzawal, Chandel, Tengnoupal, Ukhrul, and Kamjong.
The duration for the 7th Economic Census is three months.
The Economic Census is conducted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation after a gap of five years. The Ministry has selected Common Service Centre (CSC) e-Governance Services India Ltd., a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India as the implementing agency.
In the Seventh Economic Census, an IT-based digital platform for data capture, validation, report generation, and dissemination will be used. For the first time, the Economic Census will be paperless. The enumerators engaged by the CSC will do the enumeration of the establishments by using Mobile App and all the establishments will be geo-tagged,according to officials sources. The enumerators engaged by the CSC will visit door-to-door and collect information from all establishments.
