CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION - Government of Himachal Pradesh

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on the departments, PRIs and ULBS will have to continue to
update the same. This unique ID will have to be displayed on
the assets with permanent mark. The expenditure for this
activity will have to borne by the department under the
administrative expenditure head of accounts
The progress will be monitored by the High Level State
Statistical Committee
10.4 Assessment of alternative strategic choices:
The strategies recommended to achieve the different goals can be broadly
classified into those requiring administrative actions, those requiring surveys,
domestic training through a designated training centre and provision of
manpower directly answerable to Government. Domestic training, a proposed
strategy as against external training, has no alternative. In domestic training
all the resources are under the direct control of the Economic Adviser, DES.
Therefore, utilizing this resource optimally, it would be possible to develop
the capabilities of the statistical personnel. External training may be used as a
supplementary in respect of very advanced areas of knowledge and skills
required.
Outsourcing to the private sector can be a good alternative strategy only in
cases where there is acute shortage of manpower and where diversion of the
regular staff from their routine activities is required. Such situations are now
prevalent in the statistical system in the states. Hence many of the studies and
type studies proposed need be outsourced to reputed external agencies
selected through a strict competitive process. As between administrative
reporting verses statistical surveys, the two will have to be deployed as
complementary strategies and not alternatives. Important statistics and data
should be generated regularly through the administrative process. An example
is birth and death statistics where it is necessary to improve the registration
system so that we can rely on the data generated by the registration process it
self and do not depend on the SRS data. Survey should be conducted only to
collaborate this data in cases where there is some doubt with regard to the
accuracy of the data. Surveys are useful in (1) checking on sample basis the