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COMPILATION OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS STATISTICS IN INDIA 113
allied subjects under the chairmanship of Dr. S.R. Sen. The Committee on Collection of
Data for National Income was reconstituted in 1970 under the chairmanship of Prof. V.M.
Dandekar with the members comprising Director (CSO), representatives from Indian
Statistical Institute(ISI), Planning Commission, RBI, NSSO, Directors of the Directorates
of Economics & Statistics, Maharashtra and West Bengal. The other Advisory Committee
on compilation and Analysis of National Accounts was reconstituted under the
chairmanship of Prof. M. Mukherjee and included Director (CSO), representatives of
RBI, ISI, Planning Commission and Ministry of Industrial Development and Ministry of
Finance as members.
Two more committees/working groups were set up for dealing with International
Comparison Project and Improvement of Data Base for State income and related aggregates.
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Advisory Committee 1986
On the recommendation of National Advisory Board on Statistics (NABS), it was decided in
1986 that the above mentioned committees might be merged into a single Advisory Committee
on National Accounts. Accordingly, the Advisory Committee was reconstituted under the
chairmanship of Prof. V.M. Dandekar with Prof. M. Mukherjee, Dr. A.K. Ghosh, Prof. S.D.
Tendulkar and representatives of RBI, ISI, Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance,
Ministry of Agriculture, CEO (NSSO) and 3 State Directors of Economics and Statistics with
a provision of rotation every 3 years as members.
Advisory Committee 1992
The Advisory Committee on National Accounts Statistics was reconstituted in May, 1992
under the chairmanship of Prof. C.H. Hanumantha Rao with Prof. M. Mukherjee, Shri V.V.
Divatia, Dr. S.G. Tiwari, Mrs. Uma Datta Roy Choudhury, Prof. Anita Banerjee and
representatives of RBI, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, Planning Commission,
Chief Executive Officer of NSSO and four state Directors of Economics and Statistics as
members. The terms of reference of the reconstituted Committee were (i) to advise the
Government for improving the coverage of national accounts statistics to include sectors like
large scale, small scale and cottage industries in private and public sectors, (ii) to address the
question of estimation of national income by rural and urban sectors on regular basis, (iii) to
examine the issues in the estimation of factor shares by industry in rural and urban sectors,
(iv) to provide guidelines on the estimation of consumption of fixed capital at the State level,
(v) to provide guidelines on technical matters relating to phase VI of the International
Comparison Project (ICP) for evolving a suitable methodology for establishing a system of
comparisons of real product and Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) of currencies and suggest
possible improvements on the methods adopted by United Nations Statistical Office (UNSO);
and (vi) to advise on any other mater referred to the Committee by the Department in respect
of National Accounts.
Advisory Committee 1996
The Advisory Committee was reconstituted in January, 1996 under the chairmanship of Prof.
Y.K. Alagh and the members of the committee included Prof. M. Mukherjee, Dr. S.G. Tiwari,