National Training Workshop of Master Trainers for 7th Economic Census

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New Delhi : In the run up to upcoming 7^th Edition of Economic Census, a National Training Workshop of the Master Trainers was organised by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) at India Habitat Center in the national capital on May 14, 2019. The objective was to impart training to Master trainers (enumerators and supervisors) engaged in Seventh Economic Census (7^th EC).

The participants were trained on the key concepts and definitions, processes, digital platform and application to be used for the enumeration (data capture and supervision) in the field.  The workshop was attended by Secretary, MoSPI, DG MoSPI, CEO, Common Service Centres- Special Purpose Vehicle (CSC-SPV), and other senior officers of the ministry, State Governments and CSC-SPV.

The 7^th Economic Census -2019 is being conducted by MoSPI to provide disaggregated information on various operational and structural aspects of all establishments in the country. A comprehensive training strategy has been evolved to impart training to trainers engaged in the 7^th Economic Census. After the National Training Workshop of Master Trainers in New Delhi on May 14, similar exercise will be undertaken across the country. Over 6,000 State and District level training workshops will be organized during the month of May and June 2019, according to a PIB release.

MoSPI has partnered with Common Service Centres, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, as the implementing agency for 7^th EC. An IT based digital platform for data capture, validation, report generation and dissemination will be used in this Economic Census. The fieldwork for the 7^th EC will commence in June 2019. Six Economic Censuses (EC) have been conducted till date.  The first Economic Census was undertaken in 1977.