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Services to Government

Training Government Officers, Govt funded  Projects, Serving as experts in High-power Committees, Dissemination of official Statistics in Backward areas

Training Government Officers

2017 (including forthcoming)

  1. TrainingProgramme in respect of 10 Officers of the Reserve Bank of India on “Statistical Theory and Applications - I”conducted from May 29 to June 30, 2017
  2. TrainingProgramme for 14 Officers of the Reserve Bank of India on “Statistical Theory and Applications - II” held during August 08 to September 08, 2017
  3. Training-Cum-Interaction Programme for District Statistical Officers of National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan held on 23 June, 2017
  4. Training Programme for ISS probationers ,Jan,2017
  5. International training Programme for Govt Officials:Feb-March,2017

2016

  1. "Basic Demographic Techniques" for ORGI-sponsored Programme,31 Mar-13 April 2016 at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
  2. "Sample Survey Methodology and Estimation" for ISS Probationer (38th Batch), 30 May-10 June 2016 at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
  3. Workshop on Local Level Statistics for policy with various State and Central Government departments (National Statistical Commission, RBI, NABARD, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, MOS&PI, Govt of Chhattisgarh, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Govt of Gujarat, IFMR), March 29, 2017.
  4. Post-Data-Capture Editing and Imputation ISS Probationers’ Training 23 January? 3 February 2016

2015

  1. “Sample Survey Methodology and Estimation” for ISS (Probationers), 36th Batch, NSSTA/MOSPI and SOSU, September 21 to October 2, 2015.
  2. Training in “Official Statistics” for Officers of RBI (DSIM), SOSU and RBI, December 2-11, 2015.

2014

  1. Training Program on “Sample Survey Methodology and Estimation (for ISS Probationary Officers – 34th Batch)”: SOSU, Kolkata, January 06-17
  2. Training Programme on “Basic Demographic Techniques for ORGI officers in eastern India”: SOSU,  Kolkata, January 13-24, 2014.

2013

  1. International Workshop on “Official Data”: SOSU, Kolkata, July 11, 2013. Course on “Research Methods (for Senior Government Officials)”: SOSU, Kolkata, August 5-10, 2013.
  2. Training Programme on “Sample Survey Methodology and Estimation Process” (for ISS Probationers): SOSU, Kolkata, January 21–February 01, 2013.
  3. Refresher Course on “Poverty Analysis and Mapping” (for ISS in-Service Officers): SOSU, Kolkata, March 18-22, 2013.
  4. Executive Training Programme on “Statistical Data Analysis (for teachers, educators and programmers from government colleges of Madhya Pradesh)”: SOSU, Kolkata, September 23-27, 2013.

Government Funded Projects

2012

  1. Name of the Project: Study of Corporate Social Responsibility,Principal Investigator: SandipMitra, Name of the Funding Agency: IISCO, SAIL

2013

  1. Name of the Project: Reviewing the Existing database management system of trade data, Principal Investigator: PrasantaPathak, Name of the Funding Agency: DGCI&S, Government of India, 2013
  2. Name of the Project: Comprehensive Handloom Development Programme in Dakshin Dinajpur District and Mushirdabad Mega Handloom Cluster, Principal Investigator: Diganta Mukherjee, Name of the Funding Agency: Directorate of Textiles, Government of West Bengal

2014

  1. Name of the Project: Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal: A pilot study on Gram Panchayats, Government of West Bengal, Principal Investigator: SandipMitra, Name of the Funding Agency: 4th State Finance Commission, Government of West Bengal
  2. Name of the Project: Reviewing the existing system of compilation of trade indices, Principal Investigator: Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Name of the Funding Agency: DGCI&S, Govt. of India
  3. Name of the Project: ISI-RBI collaboration research project, Principal Investigator: Diganta Mukherjee, Name of the Funding Agency: Reserve Bank of India (https://www.isical.ac.in/~diganta/WebpageonRBIproject.pdf)

2015

  1. Name of the Project: Estimation of Demand for Banknotes and Coins, Principal Investigator: Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Name of the Funding Agency: RBI

2016

  1. Name of the Project: Design and Concurrent Evaluation of Foreign Trade Policy, Principal Investigator: Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Name of the Funding Agency: DGCI&S, Govt. of India
  2. Name of the Project: Socio-Economic Impact of National Highways, Principal Investigator: NachiketaChattopadhyay, Name of the Funding Agency: National Highways Authority of India
  3. Name of the Project: Traffic Survey on Metro Railway Fare Structure, Principal Investigator: Diganta Mukherjee, Name of the Funding Agency: Metro Railway, Kolkata
  4. Name of the Project: All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS), rincipal Investigator: AlokKar, Name of the Funding Agency: NABARD

Serving as experts in high-power Committees

Diganta Mukherjee

  1. Member of the Core group within the Working group for the 72nd round of NSS, NSSO, 2013 – 2015.
  2. Member of the PratapNarain Committee on National Accounts, Indian Association for Research in National Income & Wealth, 2014.
  3. Member of Survey Monitoring Committee of SEBI, 2015 – 16.
  4. Member of the Working group for the 74th round of NSS, NSSO, 2015.
  5. Member of the Expert Committee on Disclosure Control, NSSO, 2015.

Nachiketa Chattopadhyay

  1. Member, NSSO 73rd round working group
  2. Member, RBI technical committee for Empanelment of Survey agencies
  3. Member, Advisory Committee for "Compilation of India's Import in FOB”, DGCI&S
  4. Member, Working group, Survey on Drug Abuse, NSSO

Prabir Chaudhury

  1. Member of the 4-member Group to look into divergences between NAS and NSS estimates of Private Final Consumption Expenditure. The Group submitted its report to the Government of India in January 2008.
  2. Currently serving as a Non-Official Member (appointed by the National Statistical Commission) of the Working Group for the NSS 75th Round (2017-18) survey on Consumer Expenditure, Health and Education.

Asit Baran Chakraborty

  1. Member, Govt. of India Working Group on Producer Price Index (2014-17)
  2. Member, Govt. of India Advisory Committee on National Accounts Statistics

Aloke Kar

  1. Working for Government of India: Served as members in the following Committees constituted by the National Statistical Commission (NSC) [since 2014]
  2. Working group for the NSS 73rd Round survey on Unincorporated Non-Agricultural Enterprises in Manufacturing, Trade and Other Services (excluding Construction)
  3. Core Group of the Working Group for the NSS 74th Round survey on Services Sector based on list frame as a prelude to conducting Annual Survey on Services.
  4. Committee on Real Sector Statistics.
  5. As a resource person for the Training on Understanding Estimation of Agriculture Share in GDP conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), 10-14 March 2014 at the Centre for Agricultural Statistics, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
  6. As a resource person of the International Labour Office (ILO) for the training workshop on tabulation plan and report writing held during 9-13 February 2015 for Government officials of Myanma involved in the survey on Labour Force - Child Labour and School-to-Work Transition Survey conducted jointly by the Department of Labour and Central Statistical Office of Myanmar with the assistance of ILO.
  7. As a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Consultant for conducting a short-term training programmeon Sampling Methodology (contextual to Agricultural and Rural Statistics), during 5 – 9 July 2015 at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Dhaka.
  8. As an External Collaborator of ILO for reviewing and checking validated dataset and draft tables of Child Labour Survey conducted by the ILO in Myanmar and finalizing the survey report – Aug. to Oct. 2015 (extended till Dec. 2015).
  9. As a consultant of the UN-ESCAP for working as a resource person for the Second Regional Training Course on Sampling Methods for Producing Core Data Items for Agricultural and Rural Statistics, 9 – 20 November 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  10. As an External Collaborator of ILO for reviewing and checking estimation procedure of Child Labour Survey conducted by the Intenational Labour Office (ILO) in Lebanon and finalizing the survey report – Feb. – Mar. 2016.
  11. As a resource person for Capacity Development of the National Statistical System of Myanmar – Survey Sampling – 24 March 2016 to 04 April 2016 appointed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
  12. As a consultant of the UN-ESCAP for working as a resource person for the Third Regional Training Course on Sampling Methods for Producing Core Data Items for Agricultural and Rural Statistics, October 2016, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  13. As a consultant of the UN-ESCAP for conducting the Regional Course on Integrated Economic Statistics to Support 2008 SNA Imlementation, 18 – 21 April 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.

Dissemination of Statistics in Backward areas
Workshops conducted in North Eastern States of India

  1. WORKSHOP in NITAP, YUPIA, Arunachal Pradesh, Nov 06 -12, 2017
  2. Workshop on` Application of Statistics in Social Sciences and Official Data at NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, Dec 05-11, 2016.
  3. Fourth Workshop on Official Statistics” in North-Eastern State, November 06-11, 2016 at Pachunga University College, Aizawl, Mizoram.
  4. Workshop on Application of Statistics in Social Sciences for North-East States in India, August 22-31, 2016 at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
  5. Third Workshop on “Official Statistics” in North-Eastern States, Nagaland Science College , November 2-5, 2015.
  6. Workshop on “Official Statistics” SOSU, Kolkata, held at Kohima Science College, Jotsoma, Kohima, Nagaland, November 1-4, 2015.
  7. Workshop on Data Analysis SOSU, Kolkata, held at Arya Vidyapeeth, College, Guwahati, Assam, November 4-7, 2015.
  8. Workshop on Data Analysis in North-Eastern States at Guwahati, 23-27 March 2015.
  9. Training on Basic Statistics Including Official Statistics and Use of Computer/IT for Statistical Work for DESMI, Sikkim at Gangtok, June 01-12, 2014.
  10. Official Statistics and related Methodology for officials of DES-Tripura, July 21-25, 2014.
  11. 1st Workshop on “Official Statistics in the North East India, Department of Statistics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, January 02-04, 2014.