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INTERIM REPORT Himachal
Pradesh
1.0 PREPARATORY WORK
The project started with a bran storming session for a week of all the
consultants at JPS Headquarters where in the questionnaire was given a
shape and a format of the inception report was agreed to. After the finalization
of the questionnaire it was informed that the letters have been sent by Shri.
K.V. Rao, DG, NSSO and JPS Associates regarding the scheme and asking
them to extend cooperation in collection of the required information and
helping the consultants as and when they visit to the field. JPS had also sent
enough number of questionnaires to the DESs requesting them to get the
same filled in by their own office their subordinate offices one or two and the
major line departments. The undersigned also sent a letter to the head of the
DES Himachal Pradesh announcing the visit of the undersigned and seeking
the cooperation of the persons concerned.
2.0 STATUS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE
2.1 On 5th of June the undersigned left for Simla and visited the DES on 6 th
morning. The head of the DES Smt. Had been on tour and was expected
back only by 13th or 14th. However Shri Chouhan Deputy Director was
entrusted with the work and had been placed to liaison on the issue. The DES
has not filled up the questionnaire by that time but had sent the same to 8 line
departments Education, Industry, Agriculture, Rural Development, Health,
Horticulture and Land Records. But they have not included the Animal
Husbandry Department among the eight. I suggested that they may also
request the Animal Husbandry Department and as per this suggestion a copy
of the preformed was sent by DES to the Directorate of animal Husbandry
too.
2.2 They have also received back the filled in formats in respect of the Education,
Industry, Health and horticulture departments though not very much
satisfactorily. At DES the staff of the State income unit were being deployed
for the work of collecting information and putting them in order besides Shri
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Chouhan himself taking interest in preparing notes for the purpose. As they
needed clarifications and explanations a briefing session was held in the
chambers of Shri Chauhan with the presence of all his staff deployed for the
work. They assured they will complete the format properly in time before I
leave Simla.
2.3 On going through the filled in questionnaires of the Departments, I felt that it
is necessary to visit them and get the gaps filled and seek clarifications on
various points. I also thought it may be useful to vest some of the offices for
which DES has sent the proforma but have not received any response. DES
also does not seem to have reminded them.
3.0 STATUS OF DES
3.1 The department is under secretary (Finance \) and not under Secretary
(Planning)... Any resource that comes to the State for DES comes in the
name of Planning and grabbed by Planning Department. The centre assumes
that DES is under the Planning whereas it is not so. This fact has been
brought to the knowledge of CSO and other Central Departments more than
once. But the situation has not been corrected. Recently under UNDP project
of strengthening the DES six computers have been given to the State, but all
of them have gone to the Planning Department and nothing has been
received by DES.
3.2 The DES suffers from inadequate staff and inadequate machinery in the
opinion of all the officials. There is no official Internet connection and there is
no official e-mail for the office. There are five computers in the DES two
purchased by them and three given by NAD, CSO. There is one computer ineach of the districts provided by the State to enter the NSSO data. Some
more computers have been promised and provided by ADG, NSSO and they
are on the pipeline.
4.0 VISITS OF CONSULTANT TO OTHER OFFICES
4.1 I also met Mr. Sadhu JD, NSSO, FOD, who expressed that pooling of data is
not at all being attempted. The personnel of the DES do go for training and
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get trained by DPD, NSSO, but the training is not being put to use at any
point of time. Data processing in DES is very much a weak area and needs to
be strengthened. A mechanism for data processing by establishment of
processing centre with NSSO and CSO are partners could be thought of. The
consultant also visited the line departments such as Agriculture, Animal
Husbandry, Education, Health, Industries, Rural Development, Land records
and two of the district offices of DES one from the progressive area and the
other from the not so progressive area viz., Kangra and Kinnaur
4.2 The consultant gained an impression that top bosses do not pay much
attention to such maters. They routinely pass on the matters to lower staff to
deal with. Personal involvement of top officials would have helped ore. If the
chief Secretary of the State / other secretaries are involved more involvement
at Director's level in various departments could have been there.
5.0 LOCATION OF THE STATE
The State of Himachal Pradesh is bordered by Jammu & Kashmir on North,
Punjab on West and Southwest, Haryana on South, Uttar Pradesh on
Southeast and China on the East.
6.0 SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION IN FIGURES
i) Number of Districts 12
ii) Area in Sq.Km. 55673.00
iii) Total Population 6,077,248
v) Population Density per Sq.Km. 109
vi) Sex-Ratio per thousand Males 970
vii) Percentage of Rural Population 90.21
x) Literacy 4,029,097(68.08)
xi) No. of Villages 20,118xii) No. of Tahsils 75
xiii) No. of Sub-Tahsils 34
xiv) No. of Towns 57
No. of Nagar Panchayats 28
No. of Gram Panchayats
[Dec.1997]2922
No. of Villages 19388
No. of Towns 48
No. of Lok Sabha Constituencies 4
No. of Assembly Constituencies 68
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7.0 THE STATISTICAL SYSTEM IN THE STATE
7.1 In Himachal Pradesh, Department of Economics and Statistics is the apex body for
all statistical activities. All the important departments have their independent
statistical cells which are generally headed by a Joint Director, Deputy Director or
Statistical Officer with staff strength of 3 to 10 persons in each district. The main
cells in the various line departments and their functions in nutshell are given below
along with some of the limitations in certain cases.
7.2 Agriculture
The main functions of the statistical cell in the Agriculture department are collection
of data regarding crop production, Irrigation facilities and other related items. Crop
cutting experiments are conducted for five major crops viz, Maize, Wheat Paddy
Barely and Potato
7.3 Land Records.
(a) The Statistical in the Department dealing with Land Records is engaged in
data collection with regard to land utilization, Area under crops, Area and
production various crops, Rainfall data and Livestock Census etc.
(b) Limitations: The poor quality of statistics and time lag in the release of data are
the main drawbacks. This is all because of (i) the failure of Patwari Agency
to devote adequate time and attention to Gridawari operations as they are
already burdened with various grass root assignments and (ii) the poor
performance in crop cutting experiments. The methodology for the
estimation of vegetables, fruits and oilseeds needs to be explored.
Collection of prices of Agricultural commodities is also of vital importance
to facilitate market intelligence to the producers and needs attention.
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7.4 Forest
The statistics wing in the forest wing collect the data on major and minor
forest produce. The data on major forest produce is collected on the basis of
extraction carried out by the forest Corporation. The data on minor forest
produce is collected through local permit holders who are issued permits for
the extraction of such minor produce. This system results in the under
estimation of various forest produce.
7.4.1 Health
The Statistical wing of the Health Department has a good network up to the village
level. The main fields on which data is maintained are birth and death statistics,
infantile mortality, family planning, deaths by causes and patients treated under
different diseases.
7.5 Education
The statistical cell in Education department compiles the data received from district
level officers who collect it from various educational institutions and Block Primary
Education Officers. The number of educational institutions being very large it is
very difficult for one statistical person posted in one district to ensure the full
coverage resulting in under reporting and in some cases repetition of data The
data collected by Education department includes data on enrolment, dropouts,
female education teacher pupil ratio etc.,
7.6 Industries
Industries Department has a separate statistical cell but no system has been
evolved to collect the industrial production in the State. The list of industrial units
maintained by the department is not reflective of real picture as there is no system
to deregister the defunct units.
7.7 Others
Besides above there also exist statistical cells in the departments of Labour &
Employment, Rural Development Horticulture and Urban Development etc, all
these cells work independently in the respective departments.
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8.0 MORE ABOUT DES
8.1 The nomenclature:
The Directorate is known as Department of Economics and Statistics
8.2 Functions:
Department of Economics and Statistics is the main Statistical body in the State
assigned with the following functions
(i) State Income Estimation *(Economic Growth and Per Capita
Income)
(ii) Public finance
(iii) Socio Economic surveys and Evaluation Studies and Surveys
(iv) Capital formation
(v) National Sample Survey
(vi) Preparation of Economic Survey and Budget in brief ( budget
documents)
(vii) Census of Himachal Pradesh Employees
(viii) Official Statistics
(ix) Price Statistics
(x) Labour Statistics
(xi) Factory Statistics
(xii) Statistical Training
(xiii) Coordination of Statistical activities of other Departments
(xiv) Housing & Building Statistics
(xv) Collection of all types of Statistics at Block level
(xvi) Index of Industrial Production(xvii) Presentation and dissemination of data through various
publication
(xviii) Functioning as the Nodal Agency to coordinate the statistical
activities of all the departments.
8.3 The Nodal Agency
The department has been declared as the Nodal Agency to coordinate the
statistical activities of all the departments. Being the apex statistical body of
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the state this department is required to provide a strong and reliable statistical
database for effective Plan Programme and implementation.
8.4 Structure
Directorate of Economics and Statistics has been functioning since the year
1955-56. The chief Minister is the Minister in charge of the Department. The
additional Chief Secretary (Finance) is the Secretary of this Department and
the administrative department at the secretariat level is Planning Branch. The
Economic Adviser, Directorate of Economic and Statistics are the Head of the
Department. The Economic Advisor, Ms. M. Malhotra assisted by one Joint
Director, two Deputy Directors, two District Statistical Officers, 5 Research Officers
and Superintendent Grade I at Head
Division Staff in the Division
State Income Public Finance and Capital
formation
DD, ARO-2, SA-2
Employee Census RO, AO-1, SA-1, Inv –1
Prices and Labour Statistics RO ARO -1
SA-2
State Statistics and Planning RO, ARO-2 Inv-1
Surveys RO, ARO-1, SO-1, Inv-2
Housing and Building Construction RO, ARO-2, SA-1Publication
Maps and Library
Administration
8.5 Recruitment
The recruitment to the post of Deputy Director onwards is by promotion. For the
posts of District Statistical Officers, Research officers, Statistician Assistant
Research Officers, Statistical Assistant the recruitment is done adopting 75% by
promotion and 25% by direct recruitment. . The entry post on the technical side is
that of the investigator for which the recruitment is don by 100% by direct
recruitment
The qualification required for the all posts other than Investigator is MA in
Economics or M.Sc in Mathematics. For the post of Investigator the
qualification is BA in Economics or Mathematics
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8.6 Returns and Publications
The DES is receiving as many as 20 or more returns/reports only one of them
being adhoc and the rest being regular in nature. The department is bringing
out as many as 13 publications all of them annual and regular and not priced.
8.7 Information Technology
8.7.1 The DES is having only 6 computers out of which two are not working
properly and they computers are put to work on average for 8 hours a day.
They have got one laser printer, two inkjet printers and 2 data matrix
printers which are put to use from 6 –10 hours on an average per day.
They have a scanner which is not working. They also have a dial up
modem one CD writer and two Combo drives whish are also put to use at
the rate of 8 hours per day on an average. On the software side Window
XP, MS Office and Norton Antivirus are available. They have prepared
their own software for pay roll. They have got the annual maintenance for
the computers on call basis. There is no web server, website. However
dial up Internet connection is available. The staff could not talk about
volume of data stored by them
8.7.2 DES has no separate staff of IT. However from among the staff there are more
than a dozen people who are well versed in working with computer for data entry,
analysis presentation data base management and report writing. Their experience
varies from is normally about 5 years. One of them has only two year experience
where as one has 10 years experience.
9.0 ABOUT SUBJECTS IN LINE DEPARTMENTS
9.1 Agriculture
(i) The data regarding area and production of various crops is
supplied by Land Records Department with a gap two to three years.
(ii) Vegetable area and production figures are not reported
by revenue department Annual crop season report which now has
bees used as gathered from Agriculture department.
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9.2 Horticulture
(i) Variations in the prices supplied by the department and National
Horticulture Board.
(ii) Production and area of floriculture
(iii) Production and value of other left out fruits
9.3 Animal Husbandry
The two livestock census which were conducted after every five years have not
been conducted after 1997. Thus the two livestock figures are old. No figures are
available for feed and fodders in the state of its own. Prices from field are
unrealistic.
9.4 Local Level Development Statistics
To collect the Local Level data the 23 posts of Statistical Assistants were
sanctioned, but with out proper infrastructure made available to them. They are all
posted in district headquarters. To collect the data all the blocks may be provided
with these personnel.
9.5 Pooling of Central and State Samples of socio economic survey data
The decision regarding pooling of Central and State Samples of the State may be
taken up at Central Government Level. If it is not possible then relevant software
should be provided to States.
9.6 Estimation Sate and District Domestic Product.
Due to time lag in Agriculture, Forest and Manufacturing data the department I s
not able to compute advance estimates quarterly an half yearly estimates. The
department is estimating district domestic product regularly now.
9.7 Population Statistics and Uniform area codes
DES wishes to implement the NSC recommendations. The concerned
departments are yet to be requested
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9.8 Labour Statistics
Labour statistics returns as received from the Labour commissioner are sent to
Labour Bureau after scrutiny. The Labour and Employment department has
requested for the creation of statistical cell in their department
9.9 Health Statistics
All type of health statistics are collected and disseminated by health department.
But there are delays
9.10 Education Statistics
Being looked after by the education department. To improve the quality of
Statistics and reduce the time lag and data gap in the supply of educational
statistics, the department proposed for providing
9.11 Miscellaneous Statistics
Under this had Environment statistics is the major area of concern. An
environment Statistics cell is to b created in DES.
10.0 DISTRICT STATISTICAL OFFICES,
10.1 Kinnaur
10.1.1 The Office is situated in a couple of very small rooms in the office complex. It
is ill ventilated and ill lighted. The office is having no computer, no telephone.
There is only one typewriter. The District office is bringing out a number of
publications. The quality of the publication is very poor and needs
improvement
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10.1.2 There is no District Statistical officer posted here.
Designation Sanctioned In position pay scale
Assistant Research Officer 1 16400-10640
Statistical Assistant 1 - 5800-9200
Investigator 1 1 3120-5160Senior Assistant 1 - 5000-9200
Clerk 1 1 3120-5160
Peon 1 1 2620-4260
Chawkidar 1 1 2620-4260
10.1.3 Work being done
Economic Census
NSS Surveys
Publication of District abstract 2003
District at a Glance 004
Block level indicators 004
Block level abstracts 003
Tribal abstracts
Employee’s census every year
Constituency wise reports
Official Statistics
Shawls produced
Production of minerals
Registration of vehicles
Prices
House building construction rates
Weekly market prices of essential commodities
Monthly
Fortnightly
Livestock prices half yearly
House building statistics
Expenditure on construction maintenance repair of service by local bodies
Miscellaneous assignments given by deputy commissioners.
Other surveys
10.2 District Kangra
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10.2.1 Biggest district in Himachal and hence adviser has given due consideration to
this district
10.2.2 Staff Strength
District Statistical Officer 1 1 7880 – 11660
Assistant Research Officer 2 2 6400-10640
Statistical Assistant 5 5 5800-9200
Investigator 3 3 4020-6200
Senior Assistant 1 1 5800-9200
Junior Assistant 1 1 4400-7000
Peon 1 1 2520-4100
Chawkidar 1 1 2520-4100
10.2.3 Publications
District abstract Annual
District at a Glace Annual
Block level indicators Annual
Block Statistical Abstract depending on the availability of
Statistical assistant annually 2 or 3
blocks is taken.
10.2.4 Work done
Adhoc surveys by departments
Official Statistics Collection of different data
-Registered vehicles in dist from Subdivision magistrate
-Tractors on road
-Local bodies’ data-Sanitation and water supply services
-Road length maintained
Budgeting in brief of local bodies (for state income estimation)
Postal data
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1.0 PREPARATORY WORK
The project started with a brain storming session for a week of all the
consultants at JPS Headquarters where in the questionnaire was given ashape and a format of the inception report was agreed to. After the finalization
of the questionnaire it was informed that the letters have been sent by Shri.
K.V. Rao, DG, NSSO and JPS Associates regarding the scheme and asking
them to extend cooperation in collection of the required information and
helping the consultants as and when they visit to the field. JPS had also sent
enough number of questionnaires to the DESs requesting them to get the
same filled in by their own office their subordinate offices one or two and the
major line departments. The undersigned as well as JPS Headquarterscontacted the Joint Director Shri. Of the DES Jammu & Kashmir at their
Srinagar Office over phone announcing the visit of the undersigned and
seeking the cooperation of the persons concerned.
2.0 STATUS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE
2.1 On 20th of June the undersigned left for Srinagar and visited the DES on the
same day at noon hours and called on the head of the DES, it’s Director Shri.
Siddiqui. He was too busy with the Annual NSSO training conference of State
and Central Staff and was busy attending to Shri Jaydeb De, Director,
NSSO, DPD, Calcutta who had come as an observer for the conference and
the delegates to the conference to give any time. He was expressing his
predicament as the conference was to be held on 20th to 22nd of June and he
will be al the time engaged with the conference. However we have forced a
meeting with the officers of the DES especially Shri Ahangar and Shri S.S.
Sasan the two Joint Directors at the Head Quarters, The Assistant Director
Coordination, the section officers and a couple of other officers. The letter
from the JPS was found in the file and the letter from the Department of
Statistics could not be readily traced. They have sent a note to the
administration to do the needful and nothing else has been done so far. All
the copies of the questionnaires were lying at the DES and not even a single
copy of the questionnaire has been sent to any of the line Departments.
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In the DES there seems to be some confusion with regard the work allotment
and responsibilities as to who would exactly attend to these issues. Earlier
perhaps the file was handled by Mr. Ahangar Joint Director (Evaluation) and
we had in fact spoken to him. In the meeting called far by the Director where
the contents and requirements of the data were explained by the consultant,
the over all responsibility for the work was handed over to Mr. S.S. Sasan,
Joint Director (Central) ad his team consisting of the Assistant Director
(coordination) and S.O. (Coordination). Through out the period it was found
that Joint Director (Central) was evincing the least interest in the matter and
he did not take the matter seriously and did not attend to the issue at all as a
result of which even after few days by which time the consultant has collected
information from the line departments, the DES proper has not compiled any
information and wished to have further time. Consultant had dugout some
information contacting various sections and asked them to send the rest of
the information by post. Later they had sent the information by post but
compiling them in haphazard manner.
The consultant got the letters prepared by the DES addressed to the line
Departments and took the letter along with blank copies of the questionnaire
and visited the line departments, handed over the letter from DES and the
blank questionnaire and explained them the requirement of the survey and
requested them to provide the information. Many of them provided the
information after a few days of persuasion.
3.0 THE CONSTRAINTS
In Srinagar the offices are working only from 10 am to 4.pm. The staff used to
come to the office only by about 11. Am. A majority of them used to leave theoffice by 12 or 12.30 and return back only by 2.30 or 3.00 p.m. Again many
of them used to leave by 3.30 pm or so. The offices were scattered in various
locations. Some of the offices are located in the DC office complex. Many are
in the compound of the New Secretariat. The entry to the New Secretariat is
regulated by passes and is also restricted during particular periods. The pass
has to be obtained every day for every visit. There are long winding path to
reach the main building pitted with several security checks.
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4.0 STATUS OF DES
4.1 The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) in Jammu and Kashmir
(J&K) has its own historical background. A nucleus Statistical unit consisting
of four persons, one Research Officer, One Research Superintendent and
two Senior Assistants was formed somewhere in 1950s in the Planning
Department. The first expansion took place in 1957 when a survey section
consisting of one Statistician, one Statistical Assistant and four Field
Investigators was set up. It was in due course of time further extended by
adding few more posts and was designated as “Statistical Bureau”. However
the total staff was not more than 20. The need for creating a sound Statistical
System led to the establishment DES. The centralized planning gave boost to
these activities and this organization was redesignated as Directorate of
Economics and Statistics. The DES came into being with the new
nomenclature in 1967-68. This is working under the Planning and
Development Department of the State Government. The DES is serving in the
Planning area as well as in the Area of Statistics evaluation. It is situated in
an isolated area in its own building. DES is more or less supposed to have
the control over all the statistical activities in the State.
4.2 The infrastructure of the DES is very poor. It has only two telephones and one
is often hooked to fax machine and thus to get them over telephone
practically becomes difficult. Suffers from inadequate staff and inadequate
machinery in the opinion of all the officials. There is no official internet
connection and there is no official e mail for the office. There are two
computer labs and few IT staff. One of the labs is used purely for training of
the staff in utilization of Computer. But still some of the officers were reporting
lack of computer for them for processing their information. It has also come to
notice that political influence plays a part in utilization or mis-utilisation of
infrastructure. Computers and vehicles are relocated at the place of the
political bosses depriving the DES the utilization of those resources.
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5.0 VISITS OF CONSULTANT TO OTHER OFFICES
5.1 The consultant met Mr. Jaydeb De, Director, NSSO, DPD, and Calcutta who
expressed that pooling of data is not at all being attempted, though the staff of
DES are being trained at Calcutta. . The personnel of the DES do go for
training and get trained by DPD, NSSO, but the training is not being put to
use at any point of time. Data processing in DES is very much a weak area in
spite of their having enough hardware and needs to be strengthened. A
mechanism for data processing by establishment of processing centre with
NSSO and CSO are partners could be thought of. The consultant also visited
the line departments such as Department of Agricultural Production,
Departments of Health, Education, Forest, Financial commissioner’s office in
the Revenue Department, Regional Joint Directors office of Kashmir Region,
District Statistical offices of Srinagar and Kargil District, Chief Planning
officer’s office at Srinagar and Kargil.
5.2 The consultant gained an impression that top bosses do not pay much
attention to such matters. They routinely pass on the matters to lower staff to
deal with. Personal involvement of top officials would have helped more. If the
chief Secretary of the State / other secretaries are involved more involvement
at Director's level in various departments could have been there.
6.0 LOCATION OF THE STATE
6.1 Strategically located Jammu and Kashmir State constitutes the northern most
extremity of India State is 22, 22,236 sq. kms. The State is bounded by
Pakistan, Afghanistan and China from the West to the East. The State ranks
6th in area and 17th in population among the States and Union Territories of
India. The State consists of 14 districts, 59 Tahsils, 119 blocks, 3
municipalities, 54 towns and notified area committee, 6477 inhabited villages
and 281 uninhabited villages.
6.2 A major portion of J&K State consists of the western Himalayas, which
besides many lofty mountain ranges with varying heights of 3000 to 6000
meters and above, also abounds in rivers, lakes, passes, glaciers, plateaus
and plains. The number of streams, brooks, hill torrents and rivers is also
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fairly large. The most important rivers are the Indus, Chenab, Jehlum and
Ravi.
Geographical zones of
1. Sub-mountain and semi-mountain plain known as kanji or dry belt,
2. The Shalala ranges,
3. The high mountain zone constituting the Kashmir Valley, Pir Panchal
range and it’s offshoots including Doda, Poonch and Rajouri districts
and part of Kathua and Udhampur districts
4. The middle run of the Indus river comprising Leh and Kargil.
6.3 Population of J& K is 10143700. Only one fifth of the population in J&K
resides in urban areas. The rate of literacy for the State is indicated as
55.52%. There are more than 17000 schools with an enrolment of about 2.0
million. Similarly, there are 33 colleges with an enrolment of about 0.45 lakh.
For higher studies, there are now three universities one in Jammu and others
in Kashmir. The total number of students in general education at the
university stage is about 0.4 lakh, which includes 14083 females.
7.0 SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION IN FIGURES
Capital: Summer (May-October) - Srinagar
Winters (November-April) - Jammu
Languages Urdu, Kashmiri, Hindi, Dogri, Pahari,
Ladakhi,
Population 10143700 (2001 census)
No. of Districts 14(2001 census)No. of Tahsils 59(2001 census)
No. of C.D.Blocks 121(2001 census)
No. of Panchayats 2661 (Provisional) (2001 census)
No. of Villages 6652(2001 census)
No. of Urban Areas 68(2001 census)
No. of urban agglomeration 7(2001 census)
Percentage growth of population
in 1981-2001
69.42
Percentage growth of population
in 1991-2001
29.98
Literacy Rate (Excluding 0-6 55.52 (2001 census)
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population)
Sex ratio 892 (Females per 1000 males) (2001
census)
Percentage of 0-6 age
population to total population
14.65(2001 census)
Sex ratio 90-6 population) 941(2001 census)
Area 2, 22,236 sq kms.
Population density 100 (persons per sq. km) (2001 census)
Birth Rate 19.20 Provisional (2002)
Death Rate 5.70 Provisional (2002)
Infant Mortality Rate 47 Provisional (2002)
Per Capita income at current
prices
Rs. 12399 (2000-01)
Urbanization ratio 24.81(2001)
Main workers to total population 25.71 % (2001 Census)
Total reported area 24.16 Lakh Hectares (2003-04)Net sown area 7.47 Lakh Hectares (2003-04)
Total area sown 11.02 Lakh Hectares (2003-04)
Average size of land holding 0.76 Hectares (2003-04)
Net irrigated area 3.07 Lakh Hectares (2003-04)
Food grain production 15.25 Lakh Qtls. (2003-04)
Live stock population 87.07 lakh (1992)
Total number of bank branches 841 (March 2004)
Average population per bank
branch
12061 (2003-2004)
Total bank deposits Rs. 13248.31 Crores (2002-03)
Outstanding advances Rs. 5.27.62 Crores (2002-03)
Post Offices 1,683 (2002-03)
Post offices with Telegraph
facilities
180 (2002-03)
8.0 THE STATISTICAL SYSTEM IN THE STATE
Additional District Registrars and other functionaries
8.1 General
8.1.1 In Jammu & Kashmir, There is a set up of Statistics cum evaluation
Service manned by
• Director Economics and Statistics
• Director perspective Planning
• Director Plan information and monitoring
•Director Project Appraisal
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• Director Area Planning.
All the Directors except Director Area Planning belong to the Statistics Cum
Evaluation Service and all of them function under the overall supervision of a super
time scale IAS officer, Finance Commissioner in the Planning and Development
Department of the State.
8.1.2 Department of Economics and Statistics is the apex body for all statistical and
planning activities. It has now statistical cells or divisions in almost every
department of Government of J&K for collection, compilation and interpretation
data emanating from day to day working of these departments and for conduct of
sample surveys evaluation studies and for monitoring of projects and programmes.
The Statistical personnel are now charged with preparation / coordination of the
district and departmental developmental plans also. In fact the Planning Machinery
at all levels is either manned fully or substantially by the statistical personnel.
Statistical cells or Divisions in all the important departments have are generally
headed by a Joint Director, supported by other staff. The functions of the main
cells in the various line departments are given below in nutshell along with some of
the limitations in certain cases.
8.2 Agriculture
The major statistical activities pertaining to agriculture are carried out by the office
of Joint Director with the Financial Commissioner’s office in the Ministry of
Revenue. The major work handled are General Crop Estimation Surveys, Crop
Area Enumeration system, Timely Reporting Schemes and Improvement of Crop
Statistics. Under the General Crop Estimation Surveys, three principal crops
Paddy Maize and wheat and three minor crops Rapeseed &mustard, linseed and
saffron and the vegetable Potato are covered. The revenue department also hasconducted Horticulture census in collaboration with Horticulture department and
Directorate of Economics. Minor Irrigation and Agricultural Census are also looked
after by the revenue department.
Reliability, timeliness, and effective mechanism of data collection have become
subject matter of criticism b governmental and non governmental agencies. The
infrastructure is week and inadequate and it affects the output. Several new crops
emerging out of new technology are not being properly enumerated. Horticulture
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crops remain un-enumerated. Timely reporting scheme has been affect by non
filling up of the posts. The depleted condition of Gridawari / jamabandhi registers
has also affected the work."Latha” the basic revenue record is not being properly
maintained. In the Improvement of Crop Statistics Schemes the Centre is not
participating due to insurgency problems though the state carries out its part of the
job. There is a dual control over the staff of the Improvement of Crop Statistics
scheme. Though they are posted in the Revenue Department somehow they are
being controlled by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics.
It is felt that Patwaris burden should be reduced. Statistical post should be created
at Tahsils level exclusively to look after the collection statistics
Besides the Revenue Department looking after the Agriculture work, there is an
Agriculture Production Department. The Statistics division here is headed by a
Joint Director (Planning and Statistics). Horticulture, Sericulture, Command Area
Development, and Cooperatives are looked after b this department.
8.3 Local Development Statistics
Surveys and evaluation studies are being conducted on various schemes of Rural
Development Department. There is a need for the staff to get acquainted with the
developments elsewhere and with latest techniques. The officers at various levels
looking after this work never had a chance of undergoing any training organized by
CSO.
8.4 District Domestic Product
Estimates of District Domestic Product have been worked out for the commodity
producing sectors for the years 2000-2002 and 2001 – 2002. Similar estimates for other sectors could not be prepared due to paucity of data and other administrative
difficulties including paucity of staff.
8.5 Rates and ratios
These are to be updated. The State is looking into this matter.
8.6 Population Statistics
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The civil registration system is in vogue for more than 30 years. But still the
registration of births and deaths is not taking place at the desired level. It remains
at about 60% and 50% respectively. The reasons are
• People in rural areas are not fully aware of the benefits and importance of
registration of births and deaths
• There is no separate staff for the work
At present the registration is being done by the Police in the rural areas of the
State and by the Municipalities in the urban areas.
It would be better if the work is assigned to Panchayats, Local bodies, Anganwadi
workers etc., of Rural Development Department
At present the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969 is controlled by the
Director General, Family Welfare in the Ministry of Health and immunization (who
acts as the Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths) in the J&K State. But the Director
Economics and Statistics have been actively involved in the compilation of
Statistics on registration of births and deaths and preparation of Annual Vital
Statistics Bulletin. The latest bulletin available is for the year 2002.
It has been reported that copies of the manual of registration of births and deaths
in local language is not readily available.
8.7 Labour Statistics
The statistics include
• No. of cases of closures retrenchments and lay offs
• Workers affected and man days lost due to lay-offs
• Employment, wages earning, industrial disputes accidents absenteeism
etc.,
The data in this regard is some times directly sent by the Labour Department of
the State to Labour Bureau Simla, Ministry of Labour Government of India and
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some times to the Directorate of Economics and Statistics for onward transmission
to the Labour Bureau.
8.8 Health Statistics
The Directorate of Health Services in the State is the main agency to provide data
to the DES which is the main agency to collect compile consolidate and analyze
the data.
8.9 Education Statistics
The data providers in this regard are the Directorates of School education,
University education etc, in the Education Department of the State. The data
presented in this sector are
• Number of educational institutions by categories
• Students on roll
• Trained and untrained teachers
• Teacher –pupil ratio
• Institution – pupil ratio
•
Enrolment• Input/outturn of professional/ technical institutions
• Board / University examination results
8.10 Industrial Statistics
At present the preparation of Index of Industrial production is restricted only to
mining, manufacturing and electricity generation sectors. The production data of
mining sector is obtained from the Indian Bureau of Mines, Nagpur. Information on
electricity is obtained from the Central Electricity Sector and is based upon the ASI
schedules obtained from NSSO. In he manufacturing sector, the monthly data
from selected nits is collected by the Directorate of Economics for IIP. The
manufacturing units in Jammu region only are considered for the collection of this
information.
The recommendations of the CSO for building up comparable State level IIPs is
yet to be implemented fully.
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various publications of the Directorate. It is used to assess the progress of
development of various sectors of the economy.
9.4 Structure
Directorate of Economics and Statistics has been functioning since the year
67-68 more or less in the present shape. The Finance Commissioner in the
Planning and Development Department is over all in charge of the
Department. The Director, Directorate of Economic and Statistics is the Head
of the Department. The organization has grown both vertically and
horizontally. With DES at the apex level, there are two Regional Joint
Directors at Regional level one each for Jammu Region and Kashmir Region.
Below that there are District Statistical Officers at district level and a ministatistical cell at Block level consisting of One Statistical Officer, One
Statistical Assistant and one Junior Assistant. The directorate as already had
been said has cells in all important departments of the Government, semi
Government organization at the Secretariat level as well as at regional and
lower levels.
The Director Shri. Siddiqui is assisted by two Joint Director, three Deputy Directors,
ten Assistant Directors, one administrative officer, one accounts officer one Assistant programmer. Each of he Regional joint Directors are assisted by three
Assistant Directors. At district level there is one Deputy Director Evaluation and
Statistics in each of the fourteen districts. Again in each of the 14 districts one
Deputy Director is posted as Chief Planning Officer and he is assisted by an
Assistant Director (Economics). There are two Statistical training Schools one
each at Jammu and Srinagar with a Deputy director each acting as Senior
instructor assisted by one Assistant Director each acting as Junior instructor. The
lower formation at the headquarters include 17 Statistical Officers, 23 Statistical Assistants, 27 Junior Statistical Assistants, 30 Ministerial Staff and 26 class IV
staff.
Division Officers in the Division
Official Statistics DD -1, AD -1
Evaluation JD -1, DD-1, AD - 1
Surveys DD -1, AD-1.
Coordination JD -1, AD-1
Prices AD -1
State Income AD -1
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Capital formation AD -1
Economic Analysis AD - 2
Vital Statistics AD -1
Administration Adm.Off-1, Accts.off -1
IT Asst Programmer -1
9.5 Functions at the Head Quarters of the Directorate
9.5.1 The Official Statistics Division
− Collection of Statistics from all departments on various sectors of the
economy
− Analysis of statistical data collected from various sources
− Preparation of Agricultural Index Numbers
− Tabulation of ASI data
− Input output matrix
9.5.2 Coordination Division
i) Coordination of entire Statistical data collected at the Directorate and
from District offices including statistical cells located in various
departments.
ii) Preparation of Statistical Publications.
iii) Training of Statistical Personnel in local training schools as well as outside
the state.
iv) Preparation of Annual and five year plan of the Directorate.
v) Editing and approval of the District Statistical Handbooks prepared by the
DSEOs
9.5.3 State Income Division
Preparation of Estimates of State Income
Preparation of Estimates of Capital Formation
Economic and functional classification of budget
9.5.4 Surreys and NSS
Conducting various adhoc surveys
Providing technical guidance to various departments in conducting sample surveys
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Integrated sample surveys for estimation major livestock products.
Participation of NSS rounds and preparation of reports based on State samples.
9.5.5 Economic Analysis division
• Analysis of various developmental projects
• Economic analysis of State Income and Capital Formation
• Preparation of Economic Survey Reports and Reviews.
• Economic analysis of trade and commerce data valuation and
diversification of import and export trade corresponding to changes on the structure of the
state’s economy.
• Preparation of Economic and Statistical atlas of J&K.
9.5.6 Evaluation Division
Conducting of various evaluation studies as per the demand of different
departments and Planning Department. An average of four studies is to be
conducted in a year.
9.5.7 Price Division
Collection of weekly whole sale prices of Agriculture commodities, for all districts in
the State and weekly prices of essential commodities for all the districts.
a. Examination of Price data collected in connecting with the compilation of Index
Nos of Industrial workers for Srinagar centre by Labour Bureau
b. Collection of prices of live stock products
c. Preparation of monthly quarterly price reviews of Agricultural and
other essential commodities for all districts
d. Collection of prices and building of common price index of Industrial workers for Jammu centre
e. Construction of Index No.s of whole sale prices
9.5.8 Vital Statistics Unit
a) Improvement in Registration of Births and Deaths by
way of
b) Intensive supervision
c) Arranging training of field supervisory staff
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d) Monitoring of supervision work conducted by District
Registrars, Additional District Registrars and other functionaries
e) Supervision of model registration
f) Compilation of Annual Return of Vital Statistics
g) Preparation of Report on the implementation of Births and Deaths
Registration Act.
9.5.9 Computer centre
Programming, data analysis and output reports. Computerization of all publications
/ reports of the department.
9.5.10 Administration
The Directorate administers the services of all non Gazetted personnel. It also
assists the Administrative Department in the administration of Gazetted cadre
9.6 Functions of Regional Statistical and Evaluation Offices
Guide and supervise the work of statistical cells located at Divisional and District
levels
To conduct special evaluation studies and physical audit of schemes at Divisional
level and preparation of reports thereof. This job is done through the two
Evaluation units in each divisional office.
To collect and compile data at Divisional level and bring out Divisional level
publications.
To discharge administrative functions pertaining to Statistical Staff such as Jr.
Statistical Assistant level in various Statistical Cells of the Division.
9.7 Functions of District Statistical and Evaluation Cells
Coordination of Statistics of all sectors at District level and collection / maintenance
of data thereof of Block wise / Tahsils wise / village wise list of items prescribed by
State / Central Government.
To advise District or Block offices in the matter regarding collection of data and its
presentation and Standardization of mannulisation of data
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Periodic liaison of offices concerned with collection and maintenance of statistics at
District and Block levels
To conduct regular and specific evaluation work entrusted to the agency by various
Government agencies including use of techniques such as PERT / CPM for
intensive Project monitoring
Physical verification of implementation of various development programmes
claimed by various departments in consultation with DES / Planning Department.
This will include regular evaluation of the Plan schemes, with a view to watch
closely their implementation
Preparation of yearly Economic Review of the District and its publication in the
shape of formal report
Preparation and Publication of District Statistical Handbook District at a Glance/
Village amenity Directory
To deal with cases of publicly of Planning and Development in the District through
the Information department
Providing the required information at each level as per needs to various agencies
Function as Additional District Registrar of Births and Deaths and implement model
registration scheme.
Conducting NSS Surveys evaluation and other surveys including surveys on
agriculture
Such other functions as they may be called upon to do by the DDC in respect of
Planning and Development activities at the District.
9.8 Functions of Statistical Training Institute
To impart training to the in service statistical Personnel (non Gazetted) on regular
basis.
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9.9 Recruitment
There is a common Statistical cadre in the State. Jammu and Kashmir Economic
and Statistical Service. The non Gazetted service is controlled by the directorate of
Economics and the Gazetted service is controlled by the Planning and
Development Department with the assistance of the Directorate of Economics and
Statistics. The staff strength of the service below the level of Director is as follows
Sl.N
o
Designation Sanctioned Strength
1. Junior Statistical
Assistant
4000-6000 962
2 Statistical Assistant 5000-8000 692
3. Statistical Officer 6500-10500 393
4 Assistant Director (P&S) 7500-12000 115
5 Deputy Director (P&S) 10000-
15200
59
6. Joint Directors(P&S) 14000-
19500
17
Director Economics and Statistics, Director Perspective Planning, Director Plan
information and monitoring and Director Project Appraisal with a pay scale starting
at 16000 also form part of the service.
Junior Statistical Assistant is appointed by Direct Recruitment, Statistical Assistantand Assistant Directors are appointed both by Direct Recruitment as well as by
Promotion. The appointment to all other posts is by promotion only. The
qualification for the post of junior statistical Assistant is B.A., B.Sc., or B.com and
for all other posts the qualification required is Post graduation
9.10 Returns and Publications
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The DES is receiving a number of returns from the DSEOs and from the
statistical cells in the line departments. The department is bringing out as
many as 10 publications at State level, one publication at District level and 4
publications at district level more or less regularly.
10.0 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
10.1 The DES is having 2 servers and a number of computers. It has got two
computer labs one exclusively meant for training of staff in computer applications.
There are a number of laser printers and dot matrix printers. Two desk jet printers
are also there. More than 50 UPSs are available. Most of these equipments are
working properly. Thee 3 scanners and 2 CD writers. Annual maintenance contract
is available for the maintenance of the equipments. On the software side Window
XP and Norton antivirus 10 copies of each are available. The Directorate is having
separate IT staff, Two Programmers, 4 Assistant Programmers, 46 key punch
operators, and four machine cleaners are available. Te post of Programmer and
Assistant Programmers are at present vacant. The minimum qualification for the
post of Programmer is MCA or M.Sc and for the Assistant Programmers BCA or
B.Sc. The qualification for the key punch operators is 10+2. All the key punch
operators’ posts are filled up. 20 of them have 15 years of experience and the rest
have 10 years of experience. The IT staff have not received any training.
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11.0 DISTRICT STATISTICAL OFFICES,
11.1 Srinagar
11.1.1 The Office is situated with in the compound of the DC’s office. The office has
got all the infrastructures such as the computer printer photo copier etc. The
District office is bringing out a number of publications. Some of them are
• Village Directory
• Statistical Handbook
• Economic Review
• District at a Glance.
11.1.2 There is no District Statistical officer posted here. Staff position is as below
Designation Sanctioned In position
DSEO 1 1
Statistical Officers 3 3
Statistical Assistant 6 6
Junior Statistical
Assistant
12 6
Orderly 2 1
At Block office level they have 4 blocks with the sanction of one Statistical
Officer, one Junior Statistical Assistant and one Junior Assistant. Most of
them are in position.
11.1.3 Work being done
• Economic Census
• NSSO Surveys
• Prices,
• Evaluation
• Publication
• Sarva Siksha Abhiyan work
• Total Literacy Campaign related work
• GIS work
• Checking of work related to statistics done by others in the field of CPO
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11.1.4 Others
There are no staff for the schemes other than NSS surveys. The staff
sanctioned for the NSS surveys are being used for doing the work of all other
schemes.
11.2 District Kargil
11.2.2 Staff Strength
Designation Sanctioned In position pay scale
DSEO 1 1 7500-12000
Statistical Officer 1 - 6500-10500
Statistical Assistant 1 1 5000-8000Senior Assistant 1 - 4000-8000
Jr. Accounts Assistant 1 - 5000-8000
Orderly 2 1 2500-3200
Practically there are only two staff in the office. They have a room in the DC
office complex not well furnished not well looked after. Eve among the only
two staff the lone Statistical Assistant is also under orders of transfer. This will
leave the DSEO all alone. Though the functions of he Office as enumerated
earlier has a long list of activities, many of them go unattended. There seems
to be more on paper than in action. He has got no email connection.
11.2.3 Publications
The following publications are brought out
• District Statistical Handbook
• District at a Glance
• Village Amenity Directory
• Evaluation Scheme studies
• GIS information system
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INTERIM REPORT HARYANA
1.0 PREPARATORY WORK
The project started with a brain storming session for a week of all the
consultants at JPS Headquarters where in the questionnaire was given a
shape and a format of the inception report was agreed to. After the finalization
of the questionnaire it was informed that the letters have been sent by Shri.
K.V. Rao, DG, NSSO and JPS Associates regarding the scheme and asking
them to extend cooperation in collection of the required information and
helping the consultants as and when they visit to the field. JPS had also sent
enough number of questionnaires to the DESs requesting them to get the
same filled in by their own office their subordinate offices one or two and the
major line departments. The undersigned wrote to the Economics and
Statistics Director of Haryana announcing the programme of visit of the
undersigned also spoke to hi over phone.
2.0 STATUS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE
2.1 On 27th of July the undersigned left for Chandigarh and visited the DES onthe same day in the morning session and called on the head of the DES, Shri.
R.C. Sharma, Economics and Statistics Advisor. The Office of the Economics
and Statistics Advisor is functioning under the Planning Department. Shri
Sharma has recently taken over charge as Economics and Statistics Advisor
in the month of April 2005. The consultant has also met the Additional
Economics and Statistics Advisor Shri Bishnoi and the Joint Economic s and
Statistics Advisor Mr. O.P. Dhankar who had been nominated as the liaison
officer for the project. The consultant also met with all the staff who have
compiled some information or the other till date. The DES has filled in the
proforma and got the proforma filled in by some of the lie departments though
not completely giving all the relevant information. They have not sent the
proforma to the District Statistical Offices (DSOs) and as such the proforma
has not been filled up by any of the DSOs. The officers in the DES and all the
staff, especially the section dealing with the coordination of collection of
information from various sources had been quite cooperative. The DES has
attempted to systematically collect and compile the required information. The
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Consultant had the discussion with various sections of the DES including IT
personal and the IT expert of our team also joined for the discussions with the
IT experts and some line departments.
The consultant got the assistance of the DES to go to line Departments and
get introduced to them as well as for further liaison with them.
3.0 STATUS OF DES
3.1 The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) in Haryana is known as
the Office of the Economics and Statistics Advisor and is functioning under
the over all control of the Planning Department. The Office is situated at
Chandigarh in the busy market place. The Economic and StatisticalOrganisation in Haryana is the central Organisation responsible for collection,
compilation, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of all types of
statistical data relating to the socio-economic development of the State. This
is a nodal agency for collection and supply of all types of statistical data in the
State. All types of statistical data required by the Central Government and
other State Governments regarding Haryana State is also supplied by this
Organisation.
3.2 The infrastructure of the DES is fairly good. (Describe the infrastructure).
They have separate IT section with separate IT staff.
4.0 VISITS OF CONSULTANT TO OTHER OFFICES
4.1 The consultant has visited the lie departments such as education health
Labour and transport.
4.2 The consultant gained an impression that top bosses do not pay much
attention to the programmes such as this project. They routinely pass on the
matters to lower staff especially in the line departments, to deal with the work
relating to such projects as the present one for supplying the necessary
information. Personal involvement of top officials would have helped more. If
the chief Secretary of the State / other secretaries are involved more
involvement at Director's level in various departments could have been there.
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5.0 THE STATE
Haryana emerged as a separate State in the federal galaxy of the Indian
Republic on November 1, 1966. With just 1.37% of the total geographicalarea and less than 2% of India’s population, Haryana has carved a place of
distinction for itself during the past three decades. Whether it is agriculture or
industry, canal irrigation or rural electrification, Haryana has marched towards
modernity with leaps and bounds. Today, it enjoys the unique distinction in
India of having provided electricity, metalled roads and potable drinking water
to all its villages within record time. Haryana is among the most prosperous
states in India, having one of the highest per-capita income in the country.
Haryana is located in the northwest part of the country and the climate is arid to
semi arid with average rainfall of 455 mm. Around 70 % rainfall is received during
the month from July to September and the remaining rainfall is received during
Dec. to Feb. There are two agro climatic zones in the state. The north western part
is suitable for Rice, Wheat, Vegetable and temperate fruits and the south western
part is suitable for high quality agricultural produce, tropical fruits, exotic vegetables
and herbal and medicinal plants.
The total geographical area of the state is 4.42 m ha, which is 1.4 % of the
geographical area of the country. The cultivable area is 3.8 m ha, which is 86 % of
the geographical area of the state out of which 3.62 m ha i.e 96.2 % is under
cultivation. The gross cropped area of the state is 6.32m ha and net cropped area
is 3.62 m ha with a cropping intensity of 177%.
About 80% population of the State is engaged in agriculture, directly or
indirectly. Apart from meeting its own requirement for food grains, Haryana
also contributes about 45 lakh tonnes of food grains to the Central Pool
annually
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6.0 SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION IN FIGURES
No Item Period Unit State
Position
1 DIVISIONS . No 42. DISTRICTS No. 20
3. SUB-DIVISIONS No. 47
4. TEHSILS No. 67
5. SUB-TEHSILS . No 46
6. BLOCKS No. 119
7. TOWNS No. 106 No. 106
8. VILLAGES (including un-inhabited) Census
2001
No. 6955
9. Geographical Area Census
2001
LakhSq.Kms
0.44`
10 Percentage of Area Under Forest &Tree Cover to Total Area
2002-
2003
% 7.4
11 Percentage of Net Area Sown to Total Area
2002-
2003
% 79.06(P)
12. Percentage of Net Irrigated Area to Net Area Sown
2002-
2003
% 85.8 (P)
13. Yield of Food grains 2002-
2003
Qtl. /Hect. 31.07 (P)
14. Yield of Wheat 2002-
2003
Qtl./Hect 40.53 (P)
15. Population (total) Census
2001
Lakh No. 211.45
(a) Rural Population Census
2001
Lakh No 150.29
(b) Urban Population Census
2001
Lakh No 61.16
(c) Percentage of Rural Population toTotal Population
Census
2001
% 71.1
(d) Percentage of Urban Population toTotal Population
Census
2001
% 28.9
(e) Percentage of Population in AgeGroup 0-6 to Total Population
Census
2001
% 15.77
(f) Decennial Growth Rate 1991-
2001
% 28.43
(g) Literacy rate (Overall) Census
2001
% 67.91
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No Item Period Unit State
Position
Male Census
2001
% 78.49
Female Census2001
% 55.73
(h) Birth Rate 2002 Per thousand
26.6 (R)
(i) Death Rate 2002 Per thousand
7.1 (R)
(j) Infant Mortality Rate 2002 Per thousand 62.0 (R)
(k) Life Expectancy-Male
-Female
2002-
2006
2002-
2006
Years
Years
64.64
69.30
(l) Population Density Census
2001
Person/Sq.Kms.
478
(m) Sex Ratio Females per 1000 Males Census
2001
Per thousand
861
(n) Sex Ratio (0-6) Females per 1000Males
Census20
01
Per thousand
819
(o) Sex Ratio Among Literates(Females per 1000 Males)
Census
2001
Per thousand
617
16. Per Capita Consumption of Electricity 2004-
2005
KWH 619
17. Consumption of Fertilizer 2004-
2005
Kg. /Hect. 169 (P)
18. Per Capita Availability of Milk 2003-
2004
Gm/per day 660
19. 1 Per Capita Income(a) At Constant (1993-94) Prices(b) At Current Prices
2003-2004
2003-2004
Rs.Rs.
15721 (Q)29963 (Q)
P – Provisional Q – Quick P- Provisional
7.0 The Statistical System in the State
7.1 The working of the Economic and Statistical Organisation can be broadly be
classified under three divisions viz., (a) Statistical, (b) Planning and (c) Evaluation.
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7.2 The Statistics wing is responsible for collection compilation, analysis and
dissemination of statistical data on all socio-economic aspects of the development
of the State of use of Administrators, Planners, Researchers and the like. It
prepares the State Statistical abstract, the Economic survey of the state annually.
It has organized itself into various sections to look after the statistics pertaining to
various sectors / aspects of the economy.
7.3 The Planning wing looks after all the work pertaining to planning.
7.4 There is an evaluation committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary
and all the Administrative Secretaries concerned with the plan as members. . It
suggests programmes schemes to be evaluated and the evaluation wing does the
evaluation work.
7.5 Besides the above the line departments in the state have their own statistical cells
and carry out statistical activities pertaining to their subject matters.
7.6 Agriculture Department
The Agriculture Department has a statistical cell manned by:
• One Additional Director (Statistics)
• One Joint Director
• One Deputy Director (TRS)
• One Economist
• One Assistant Statistician
• One Field officer Statistics
• Nine technical Assistants
• Sixty two Statistical Assistants
• Ten Senior Computers
• Ten Junior Computers
• Eight Agricultural Inspectors (Statistics)
The main functions of this cell are
To conduct crop cutting experiments on principal crops to provide reliable and
accurate estimates of average yield and production.
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To conduct sample surveys under Timely Reporting Scheme for obtaining quick
estimates of area under different crops and also tentative production estimates
based upon partial receipt of crop cutting experiments.
To conduct adhoc regular sample surveys and other in depth studies to assess the
impact of various Agricultural developmental activities.
To conduct monitoring an evaluation surveys for assessing effectiveness of new
Agricultural extension system under T & V Programmes.
To carry out supervision of field work of Statistical surveys. Besides, under
Improvement of crop statistics and independent area check inspection of cop
cutting experiments is carried out
Agricultural situation
Weather Watch Group
Natural calamities
Crop Insurance
7.7 Industries Department
The Industries Department has a statistical cell manned by
One Assistant Director (Statistics)
One Planning Assistant
Two Statistical Assistants
One field investigator
One clerk
The main functions of this cell are
• Collection of Statistics relating to establishments of Small Scale Industries in
urban and rural areas, investment made, capacity installed and number of
workers employed in them
• Conduct of sample Surveys of Small Scale Industrial Units
• Preparation of annual administrative Report.
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7.8 Health Department
The Health Department has a statistical cell manned by:
• One Assistant Director (Demography)
• One Statistical Officer
• Nine Head Assistants Nosologists
• Sixty seven Statistical Assistants
• Four Senior Computers and
• One hundred and twenty computers.
The main functions of this cell are
(i) Civil registration system in the rural and urban areas of the State
(ii) Certification of causes of death
(iii) Collection of hospital data and preparation of hospital indices
(iv) Collection, compilation and analysis of family welfare and MCH performance
statistics
(v) Conduct of various surveys and studies.
7.9 Transport Department
The Transport Department has a statistical cell manned by:
(i) Deputy Transport Controller (Planning and Development)
(ii) One Statistical Officer
(iii) Twenty One computers (one each in each of the depots and one at Head
quarters)
(iv) Two Assistants
(v) Two clerks
(vi) Two stenographers.
(vii) Twenty Statistical Assistants one each in each of depots.
The main functions of this cell are
• To collect compile and analyse the operational and financial results of
roadways depots
• To collect and maintain various types of statistical information about
the operation of roadways
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• Preparation formulation of Annual five ear Plans of the Department
and also t watch their progress
• Preparation of annual Administration Report of the department
• Supply exchange of statistical information with other State Transport
Undertakings of State Government and Government of India and CIRT, Pune
• Preparation of notes to highlight the activities and achievements of the
department.
• To collect data regarding registration, licensing, permits etc., by 10
RTAs and SDO © in the state
• Preparation of important indicator regarding State Transport
• Advertising contract for Buses etc.
7.10 Education Department
The Education Department has a statistical cell manned by:
• One Research Officer
• One Assistant Research Officer
• Three Statistical Assistants
• Three Computers
The main functions of this cell are:
• Collection and compilation of Educational Statistics as prescribed by
Government of India
• Collection and compilation of other adhoc educational statistics
• Writing of Annual Administrative Report of the Department
• Publication of the list of educational institutions
• Supply of statistical information to other departments.
7.11 Rural Development Department
The Rural Development Department has a statistical cell manned by:
• One Project Economist
• Two Research Officers
• One Assistant Research Officer
• Two Investigators
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• Two Computers
• Three Computers
There is also a project Economist or Assistant Project Officer at each of the District
Headquarters.
The main functions of this cell are
Collect and compile statistical information regarding various development schemes
pf the Rural Development Department l like Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar
Yojana, Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana, Indira Awas Yojana etc.,
7.12 Directorate of Land Records
The Statistical Cell of the Directorate is headed by a Joint Director Statistics. He is
assisted by sixteen statistical assistants for field work. Besides the sere vides of a
large number of officials from the revenue department and agricultural department
are used.
This Directorate is responsible for collection, compilation analysis ad interpretation
of data relating to agriculture, livestock including fisheries, irrigation, etc., Crop
forecast and season and crops reports are also prepared and issued by this cell. In
addition to this, cell also conducts agricultural and livestock censuses. This cell is
also responsible for implementation of Computerisation scheme of Land Records
in the state.
7.13 Forest Department
The Forest Department has a statistical cell manned by:
• One Statistical Officer
• One Technical Assistant
• Five Statistical Assistants
• One Research Investigator
The main functions of this cell are
• To collect, compile statistics relating to forestry sector for preparing annual
report
• Social enquiries and surveys relating to forestry sector
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• Monitoring and evaluation of forestry
• Collection and compilation of Forest Statistics.
7.14 Animal Husbandry Department
The Animal Husbandry Department is headed by a Deputy Director who is
assisted by 63 statistical personnel both at the Head Quarters and in the field.
The main functions of this cell are:
• To prepare reports and returns and to secure reliable estimates of average
yield of milk, eggs, wool and meat through integrated sample surveys
• Cost of production of milk and eggs.
7.15 Cooperative Department
The Cooperative Department is headed by a Statistical Officer. He is assisted by:
• Another Statistical Officer
• Four Statistical Assistants
• One Inspector (Statistics)
• Two sub inspectors (Statistics)
• Other ancillary staff.
The main functions of this cell are
Compilation and tabulation of Annual Statistical data and national Bank for
Agriculture and Rural Development tables and submission thereof to State
Government and Government of India
Publication of Annual Administration Report of the Department with the approval of
the State government.
7.16 Department of Welfare of Schedule Castes and Backward Classes
The Department of Welfare of Schedule Castes and Backward Classes is having
two statistical sections viz., Employment cell and Research Branch.
Employment cell is headed by a Statistical Officer, ho is assisted by three Assistant
Research Officers, fourteen Statistical assistants, One Assistant, one Steno typist
and two clerks
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Research Branch is headed by one Research Officer, who is assisted by two
Statistical Assistants, one steno typist ad one clerk
The main functions of this cell are:
To collect reservation data from Heads of Departments / Corporations / Boards
etc.
To check the Roster Register Registers of various Government Offices /
Corporation / Boards
To deal with the representation of Government Employees working in other
departments regarding reservation in services etc.
To assist the Haryana Vidhan Sabha Committee for SC / ST pertaining to
reservation and other welfare activities for these communities.
Research ad Evaluation of the departmental schemes.
To give wide publicity regarding employment opportunities for the candidates of
SC/ST
To suggest measures for amendment for issuance of new orders regarding
reservation policy for SC and BC
To deal with the report of National Commission for SC / ST.
To deal with the cased for inclusion of different cases in the list of SC and BC.
Publication of Annual Administration Report of the Department with the approval of
the State government.
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8.0 Gaps, deficiencies, problems and suggestions for improvement in different
sectors
8.1 Agriculture sector
8.1.1 The latest data in respect of area and production of agriculture crops based on
season and crops report prepared by State Land Records Department is treated
as final for all proposes, but the Central Statistical Organisation uses the data basis
on final fore- cast report of State Agriculture Department supplied to them by the
Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. This results in the difference of SDP
estimates prepared by Central Statistical Organisation and DES. To narrow down
the difference I the SDP estimates prepared by Central Statistical Organisation
and DES, Central Statistical Organisation should use the data based on season
and crops report.
There is a time lag of about one and a half year when the final data or area and
production of agriculture crops is made available by the State Land Records
Department. The time lag for finalizing the area and production data of Agriculture
Cops by the State Land Records Department should be reduced.
8.1.2 In case miscellaneous and unspecified crops such as other cereals other pulses
and other oil seeds etc., The State Land Records Department provides only area
estimate under these crops. Production figures for these crops are not available. In
the absence of production data for these crops, direct method (value per unit of
area) for their evaluation is being used. For bringing improvement in the estimates
of Agriculture sector efforts shall gave to be made to estimate the production data
for these crops which is possible if these crops are covered under crop cutting
experiments being presently conducted for estimating the production agriculturecrops or some regular surveys may be conduced to work out the yield rats of these
crops.
8.1.3 For estimation of value of output from fruits and vegetables only area under fruits
and vegetables is obtained from State Land Records Department, but production
data for these crops is not available with this Department. Of late, State horticulture
Department as also started preparing the estimates of area and production for all
the fruits and vegetables in the State. But on comparison of data from these two
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sources it has been observed that there is wide variation in the area statistics for
finding out the reasons for these variations, both the departments were contacted.
Both these departments have claimed that the area statistics supplied by them are
correct. AT last it was decided that the area figures supplied b DLR maybe used
for estimating of state domestic product. They will also provide production data for
all the fruits and vegetables using yield rates as per Horticulture Department
Survey. But in this case he claim of Horticulture Department that the area and
production data of fruits and vegetables provided by them is final and is based on
actual survey conducted by their officers, has been ignored.
8.2 Manufacturing sector
8.2.1 The estimates of SDP in case of registered manufacturing sector are based on
Annual Survey Industries. This survey provides data regarding gross value of
output input gross value added, consumption of fixed capital k net value added and
number of workers. But there is a time lag of about one year when the results of
the survey are made available. There is no data available at State level for
preparing the quick estimates of SDP from registered manufacturing sector. The
time schedule of ASI must be advanced so that the survey results should be
available in time.
8.3 Construction Sector
8.3.1 For the private sector construction the estimates of SDP are prepared separately
for household and on household sectors.
8.3.2 Household sector covers residential and residential buildings of individual
household both for urban rural areas. The estimates for this sector are based onthe results of the All India Debt ad Investment Survey 1991-92. The survey
provides data regarding fixed capital expenditure and expenditure incurred and
normal repairs maintenance by the household separately for residential and
nonresidential buildings both in rural and urban areas. These estimates of
expenditure on new construction and repairs and maintenance based on ADIS
1991-92 are moved backward forward wit the help of different indicators to get the
SDP estimates for different years. All India Debt and Investment Surveys are
conducted after a gap of 10 years which is very log span of time. It would be
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prudent if All India Debt and investment Surveys are conducted after every 5
years.
8.3.3 In the case of the non-household sector ASI returns are only source for
compilation of Gross Capital Expenditure on buildings etc., as no data is made
available by the Registrar of Companies regarding corporate sector.
8.3.4 Registrar of Companies should be perused to make the information on corporate
sector made available.
8.4 National Accounts.
8.4.1 Revised System of National Accounts 1993 recommends preparation of completer
sequence of accounts for various institutional sectors for which lot of additional
data are to be colleted. DES does not have funds to undertake any additional work
of conducting special surveys. Response from institutions other than Government
is very poor. The data from public o financial and financial institutions is also
received after a gap of 2 to 3 years.
8.4.2 In the unorganized services sector there is a problem of maximum concealed
income. Unorganized sector estimates are now based upon the surveys
conducted by National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO.). These surveys do
not reveal the real income of the persons. To get the income different approaches
such as the standard of living consumption expenditure etc could be used. The
concealed income can also be taken from Income Tax Department who conducts
raids to unearth concealed income.
8.5 Input output tables.
This work could not be taken up by the states in true perspective due scarcity of
resources. Resources are needed for creation of exclusive cell for this purpose.
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8.6 Index of Industrial Production.
525 registered units from a total frame of 5264 units covered by Annual Survey of
Industries have been identified in the year 1993-94 for the purpose the index. But
the Reponses are being received from only a fraction of the units that is leas than
50% of the units selected. In terms of number of items too the response had been
less than 50%. .The system needs to be strengthened.
8.7 General
There is no act empowering Statistics Department to take action against persons
supplying wrong Informtion. This is one of the reasons for the poor quality of data
collected through the various surveys.
9.0 More about DES
9.1 The nomenclature :
The Directorate is known as the office of the economic and Statistical advisor.
9.2 Sections.
Department of Economics and Statistics functions through various Sections as
below
(xxix) Compilation
(xxx) Prices
(xxxi) State Income
(xxxii)Public finance and regional accounts(xxxiii) Capital formation
(xxxiv) Agriculture
(xxxv) National Sample Survey
(xxxvi) Index of Industrial Production
(xxxvii) Training
(xxxviii) Improvement of Social Statistics.
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9.3 Functions
• The Major functions of the Office of Economic and Statistical Office are
• To collect, compile analyses the date relating to various socio economic
aspects of the State
• To serve as a store house for all types of Statistics required for planning
and formulation of development programmes
• To undertake surveys and enquiries regarding various socio economic
problems of the State
• To coordinate statistical activities of various departments of the State
Government
•
To advise the government on economic and Statistical matters
• To work in liaison with Central Statistical Organization, Government of
India and various State Statistical bureaus
• Formulation and Implementation.
9.4 Staff
The Advisor Shri Sharma, Economic and Statistical Advisor is assisted by two
Additional Economic and Statistical Advisors, Two Joint Economic and Statistical
Advisors, twelve Deputy Economic and Statistical Advisors, One Deputy Plan
Advisor, One Manpower Employment and Coordination Officer and other Junior
officials. At district level there exists a District Statistical Office headed by a District
Statistical Officer in each of the 19 districts of the State. He is assisted by one or
two Assistant District Statistical Officers / Statistical Assistant / Field Assistant /
Field Investigators etc. The number of supporting staff in each district varies
according to the size of the distinct and special / adhoc surveys take up in the
districts.
9.5 Functions of the different sections at the Head Quarters of the Directorate
9.5.1 Collection Compilation
This section collects compiles and publishes the statistical information on social
and economic aspects of the State. The major publication is the Statistical
Abstract. The book on the economic status 2005 has been prepared. It is also
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engaged in the collection information for survey on Government employees. I t
collects retail prices on agricultural labourers and Rural retail prices. It has also
conducted a pilot study on Basic statistics for Local Level Development. With
100% Central Assistance.
9.5.2 Prices
Collection of weekly retail prices and wholesale prices and preparation of working
class consumer Price index are the responsibilities of this section. Working Class
Consumer price Index is being prepared with base year 1982 = 100 at 6 centres.
The wholesale price index for agricultural produce is being prepared wit the base
year 1980-81 = 100.
9.5.3 State Income
Estimates of State Domestic Product and per capita income on current and
constant prices are prepared. . The base year for these estimates is 1993-94. The
estimates have been prepared up to the year 2002-2003. Quick estimates for the
year 2003-2004 have also been released. The methodology has been explained in
the publication specially brought out for the purpose. Estimates of Household
production have also been done up to the year 2004.
9.5.4 Public finance and regional accounts
Economic and functional classification of State budget, budgets of urban local
bodies analysis of state finance are the main work carried out in these section. The
economic and functional classification for the year 2003-2004 has been completed
in the case of State budget and for the year 2001-2002 in the case of urban localbodies.
9.5.5 Capital formation
The estimates of fixed capital formation being prepared annually. The estimates
are prepared with base year 1993-94 for all the 13 sectors of the economy. The
work has been completed for the year 2002-2003.
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9.5.6 Agriculture
It brings out two publications every year one on the economic status of the
agriculturists of the State, and the other on the family budget of the agriculturists of
the state. The reports for the year 2002-2003 have been released.
9.5.7 National Sample Survey
9.5.8 Index of Industrial Production
It prepares the index of industrial production annually. The indices have been
prepared for the year 2002-2003. The base year adopted is 1993-94. Monthly
indices are also being prepared and the work in this case has been completed up
to the year 2003-2004. In the case of the Sample Scale Industries, the figures of
output, input, depreciation, value added and number of workers have been
finalized for the year 2002-2003.
9.5.9 Training
This section organizes the trailing programmed for the middle and lower level
statistical employees. The training is being organized at the divisional
headquarters. I t prepares the Economic Survey of the state and publishes the
same. The report for the year 2004-2005 has been published.
9.5.10 Improvement of Social Statistics
It prepares various socio economic indices on different aspects of the social life of
the people of the state for in inclusion in the state statistical abstract. Such indices
have been prepared for the year 2003-2004.
9.5.11 Planning Wing
• It has five sections.
• It prepares the five-year plans and annual plans and monitors the
implementation of the various schemes. It has district-planning units as part of
decentralized planning. To approve the work programmes at district level under the
decentralized planning, District local area development boards have been constituted. A
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quarterly report of the decentralized planning is being prepared. Under the scheme the
special component plan is being prepared by the Scheduled Tribal and Backward Classes
welfare board.
• It evaluates all development works and schemes. .
• Perspective planning work is being carried out by this section
• Manpower and employment related work is also looked after. This section
estimates the demand and supply of the technical personnel. It studies the issues related
to employment and unemployment.
10. Main functions of District Statistical Agencies.
a) To collect, compile and maintain all types of statistics relating to socioeconomic conditions in the districts
b) To guide and supervise the reporting agencies in the matter of collection
compilation of statistics
c) To render necessary assistance in connection with surveys and enquiries
undertaken at the district level
d) To coordinate the statistical activities of the virus departments at the district
level
e) To conduct periodical training of officials concerned with collection andmaintenance of statistical data in various offices.
11. Recruitment
There is no common Statistical cadre in the state.
12. Returns and Publications
The DES is receiving a number of returns from the DSEOs and from the
statistical cells in the line departments. The department is bringing out a
number of publications. Almost all of them not priced.
13. Information technology