The State Government on Monday kick-started the seventh Economic Census with the release of a special IT application (app) for collection and integration of data. Launching the programme and releasing a mobile application in Lok Seva Bhavan here, Development Commissioner Suresh Chandra Mohapatra said, “An IT-based digital platform for data capture, validation, report generation and dissemination along with features of geo-tagging and back-end integration with other data sources like GST will be used for the first time in this Economic Census.”
Another new aspect of the seventh Economic Census is collaboration with Common Service Centres (CSC), one of the mission mode projects under Digital India programme for delivering services to people in rural areas, for conducting household surveys using the mobile app, he said.The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has partnered with CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, a special purpose vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, as the implementing agency for the seventh Economic Census.