Dimapur, June 29 (EMN): The department of Economics and Statistics has a major task in preparing Nagaland’s indicator framework to meet the sustainable development goals in line with the national indicator framework.
It is one reason why the department must examine up to what extent the current statistical system in Nagaland caters to ‘the need for rational monitoring’ of the indicators to achieve the goals that have been set globally, officials of the department were told during the 13th National Statistics Day. The Day was observed on June 29 in Kohima.
The programme was organised by the directorate of Economics and Statistics’ Kohima division, updates stated.
The government publicity agency, the department of Information and Public Relations gave updates about the programme in its Saturday bulletin. National Statistics Day is an annual event that is observed every year since 2006 when the government of India declared June 29 the National Statistics Day.
The Day marks the birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, a Bengali scientist and applied statistician and considered the father of modern statistics in India.
Mahalanobis is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of independent India. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute in 1932 and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys.
Y Sacheo Ovung, director of Economics and Statistics, spoke at the programme on the subject of sustainable development goals. The officer urged his colleagues and staff to examine up to what extent the current statistical system in Nagaland caters to ‘the need for rational monitoring’ of the sustainable development goals indicators to achieve the goals set globally.
The agenda for 2030 for sustainable development are a set of 17 goals that aims at achieving a ‘better world by 2030 and was first adopted on 25th September 2015 by 193 countries at the 70th summit of United Nations,’ he said.
“The challenges of getting a comprehensive unified data to monitor the sustainable development goals indicators are enormous. High quality and accurate data are a requirement to measure the achievement of all sustainable development goals through the defined indicators.”
As the main department for all statistical activities in Nagaland, he said, preparing the state indicator framework for the sustainable development goals in line with the National indicator framework is the responsibility of the department; it is to upgrade the prevailing statistical system to meet the challenges and bring forth a reliable and unified data.
Ovung urged his staff in the department to reassess the existing set-up of collecting and analyzing data and plan a roadmap containing the actions to be initiated in providing a robust statistics to the various stakeholders implementing the sustainable development goals.
“As aptly coined by the United Nations ‘leaving no one behind’ let the intervention of our department translate progress of socio-economic development in our state to every region and for all citizens,” he said.
