HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND OF THE DEPARTMENT
The
Department of Statistics was extended to Mizo District in 1958
with the appointment of District Statistical Officer, One
Inspector of Statistics, two Primary Investigators, four Field
Assistants, one L.D. Assistant and one Typist. Due to outbreak
of disturbances in March, 1960 the main function of the District
Office was entirely suspended. At the end of 1970 the Office was
under the dual charge of the Statistical Officer, Cachar,
Silchar. After the inauguration of the Union Territory on 21st Jan,
1972 the Office was looked after by one Sub-Deputy Collector in
addition to his normal duties.
On 1st March,
1973, Statistical Officer who was deputed by the Arunachal
Pradesh Administration, took over charge from the Sub-Deputy
Collector. Since then, the Department began to function in full
swing under direct supervision of the Development Commissioner,
Mizoram, who acts as an Ex-Officio Director of Economics &
Statistics, Mizoram.
(A)
Introduction
Directorate of
Economics & Statistics (DES) is now organized as a full- fledged
major department functioning as the apex body in the statistical
system of the state under the administrative control of Planning
& Programme Implementation Department, Government of Mizoram.
(B) Salient features of the Department
i)
Functioning
as the apex body in the statistical system of the state,
Directorate of economics &
Statistics (DES) coordinates all statistical activities in the
state.
ii) It undertakes various kinds of
surveys and censuses (including nation-wide surveys and censuses) to provide basic data required by various sectors of
the economy, for estimating state income and to fill the large
gaps in the data essential for formulating effective plans.
iii)
DES is mainly engaged in collecting,
processing and publishing of various official statistics on a
number of variables of relevance to State and Central Government
for the purpose of developmental planning programmes and
policies and for various other official uses and records.
iv) DES also
maintain liaison with Central Statistical Organisation, National
Sample Survey Organisation of the Central Government and
Statistical Cell/wing in other line departments under State
Government.
(C)
Organizational set up
The Directorate of Economics &
Statistics is headed by a full-fledged Director drawn from the
service of ‘Mizoram Planning, Economics & Statistical Service (MPE&SS),
Mizoram. He is also appointed as Addl.Chief Registrar of Births
and Deaths, Mizoram.
Under the direct supervision of the Director, the Directorate is
further organized into different wings, namely :-
1.
Establishment Wing
2.
General Statistical Wing
3.
National Sample Survey Wing
4. Registration of Births & Deaths Wing
5.
Price & Market Intelligence wing
6. Agriculture Census Wing
7.
Economics Census Wing
8. State Income Wing
1. ESTABLISHMENT WING
:
This Wing
is held responsible for all administrative matter within the
Directorate. It deals with the service matters of all staff,
accounts, transfer and posting, stationeries and indents,
vehicles, office machine and equipments, furniture and
furnishing, receipts and dispatch of daks and general office
maintenance. Superintendent is the officer in charge of this
wing.
At present
there are altogether 97 nos. of employees working in the
Directorate of Economics and Statistics out of which 11 are
Gazetted Officers.
Since all
subordinate Statistical Staff are placed under a common cadre,
quite a number of these personnel are posted in the Statistical
Cells of various departments of the State Government who are
under the administrative control of the Directorate of Economics
& Statistics. The present strength of these statistical
personnel posted in different departments are as follows :-
1.
Inspector of Statistics - 121
2.
Sub-Inspector of Statistics - 15
Total - 136
2.
GENERAL STATISTICAL WING
This wing
mainly deals with official statistics of the State by
collecting, processing and analyzing various official statistics
pertaining to different sectors of the economy to provide
statistical materials and to build up data base needed for
policy making, plan formulation, implementation and monitoring
by the State Government. This wing is at present manned by a
Deputy Director with other necessary officers and subordinate
statistical staff.
At the
same time, this wing has been maintaining liaison with
statistical cell in different department of the State Government
and also with Directorate of Economics and Statistics of all
other states in the country.
General
Statistical Wing also organizes census and special survey at the
State level from time to time as and when necessary with a views
to fill up data gaps. It is now associated with regular surveys
and census such as :
a.
Employees Census
b.
Industrial Survey
c.
Farm Harvest Price Survey
d.
Building & Construction Survey
To develop
better and easy access to data and evolve a better informed
society this wing has also been continuously striving to
disseminate various socio-economic data by bringing out
publication from time to time and also creating website. As
desired by the Central Government, the wing is also looking
forward to bringing out E-Publication in the near future.
Publication brought out and held by this wing are as follow :
Name of Publication
Frequency
1.
Statistical Handbook Started since
1974 and continued
publishing on alternate year basis.
Latest – 2006
2.
Employees Census Since 1998
continued as annual
publication upto 2005
3.
Rainfall Statistics Adhoc
latest – 2006
4.
Block Statistics Adhoc latest – 2005
5.
Hospital Statistics Latest –
2003
6.
Employment exchange statistics Latest – 2005
7.
Socio-Economic Review Adhoc latest 2002-03
8.
Statistical Abstract To be
published shortly.
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