CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION - Government of Himachal Pradesh

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Existence of gaps in the availability of needed information.
Delays in publication of results – primarily because majority of the time
gets invested in collection & compilation of data.
Large and frequent revisions of published results – since validation of
data happen manually.
Generation of data from different desperate data sources thus leading to
gross discrepancies in official statistics from different sources.
Lack of scientific standard on the sources, methods and procedures of
statistics.
Enablement of staff on latest statistics tools.
Data collection and other allies aspects such as compilation, processing
and preparation of results are carried out for some of the sectors although
there is divergence across the states
For meeting the existing data gaps and improving the efficiency of the current
statistical system in the state there has to be a well defined goal which is to build-
an effective & efficient statistical data/information based Decision Support
System capable of providing analytical & timely information to the Planning
Department, Other Departments of the State & Central Governments,
Research Institutes and Academicians & Public at large.
8.6 Approach for the new System
The Government of India and the State Government have taken lot of e-Governance
initiatives and various Govt. departments have started implementing computerization
projects. Consequently, the challenges of the Department are not limited to data
collection and publishing reports. The computerization projects of various
departments with the centralized architecture shall lead to creation of electronic
repository of basic data as per requirements of the departments. This IT intervention
entails the Department to revamp its present functioning of merely collecting
secondary data from implementing departments and publishing reports. It is,
therefore, necessary to keep pace with the advent in the technology and develop
capabilities/capacities in advance statistical analysis of the data to face new
challenges. It is expected that in the near future basic data shall be available to
Department in the electronic format for further statistical analysis and as such the
Department shall become the central repository of an electronic data. As stated