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Economic data

While a centralised agency collects and compiles data in a nation such as China, it is self-contradicting to find that in India, the same information, from the same sector, for the same year (such as unemployment rates published by the NSS and the Economic Survey) is being compiled and collected by more than one agency.

Moreover, it is divergence and variation that one encounters when going through such data. Global-delusion apart, collection and compilation of such spurious data will have specious decisions taken and a not-so-good effect on the target groups.

G. Narasimha Raghavan

Chennai

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