CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION - Government of Himachal Pradesh

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DESHP Himachal Pradesh State Strategic Statistical Plan 252 includes the Registration of Birth and Death Act of 1969. Many of these laws are outdated and require a relook. The Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 covers only limited areas of data collection and facilitate the collection of statistics relating to industries, trade, and commerce. The Act specifies that the Central or a State Government may appoint a Statistics Authority, who in turn may serve on the owner of an industrial or a commercial concern or an individual, a notice requiring him to furnish certain listed information about the concern. It confers the right of access to relevant records or documents and restricts publication of any information disclosing the identity of the concern. It also provides for certain penalties for wilfully refusing to furnish, or, the furnishing of false information. However, this law has so far been sparingly used for collecting data under Annual Survey of Industries, to collect information on input, output and employment from a limited segment of the industrial sector. A very large segment of industries remains uncovered and even the penalty clause has not been successful in avoiding nonresponse. Though clauses 3(a), (b) and (c) of the Collection of Statistics Act (1953) on the one hand gives the State Governments the right to name a Statistical Authority, it seems to be substantially negated by subsequent provisions of the Act under the same clause. The Statistics Authority for the Annual Survey of Industries has always been the Head of the Field Operations Division of the NSSO, while the DES has also been engaged in collection of data on Annual Survey of Industries, without any such legal support. To strengthen the attempts of the DES to collect industrial statistics, particularly through the Annual Survey of Industries, provision of the appropriate legal authority is necessary. As such these existing laws are not broader enough to serve our data requirements. Hence there is a need for a State to enact specific laws to ensure the speedy execution of statistical activities. Statistical legislation is a fundamental pre-requisite for an effective statistical system. The statistical legislation defines the statistical system and roles and responsibilities of the various players in the system and safeguards the system and regulates collection and management of official statistics. Presently legislative
DESHP Himachal Pradesh State Strategic Statistical Plan 253 support is available for the registration of births and deaths, labour and employment, factories etc. As part of the process of implementing the recommendations of the National Statistical Commission the Central Government has enacted the Collection of Statistics Act 2008 and repealed the Collection of Statistics Act 1953. The new Act enhances the scope of data collection in the official statistical system of the country. It covers all types of data providers, namely, households, enterprises and establishments, unlike the 1953 Act which covers only industrial and commercial concerns. The new Act provides for modern methods of data collection like E-filing. It empowers not only the Central and State Governments, but also the local governments in data collection. It provides for more decentralized data collection activities, as it enables the appointment of statistical officers in any given geographical unit for this purpose. It also has provisions for using the data only for statistical purposes and for disclosing the data to potential users only, after suppressing the identification details of the concerned data providers. The new Act helps in avoiding unnecessary duplication of survey efforts. The Central Government is empowered to make rules under this new Act. For this purpose the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) is in the process of consultion with other Central Government departments, State Governments and UT Administrations for suggestions to the draft rules under preparation by the Central Government. It is expected that the Act and rules will come into force within a short course of time. There is need for the State Govt. to adopt such legislation on statistics for improvement in the statistical system of the State
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