BUREAU OF APPLIED ECONOMICS & STATISTICS

Activities of Department                

The main activities of this district office are to conduct field operations for various statistical survey work as required by the government Estimation & Report writing  works are done at  state Head quarter. Among those works some are periodic & some non-periodic.

Periodic Works : 

(i)                  Crop Cutting Experiments (CCE) for 19 major crops  in  4 seasons of the year under EARAS Scheme, viz, Bhadui, Winter, Rabi, & Summer for crop yield estimation. Harvest Time Survey (HTS) work is also conducted to prepare Irrigation Statistics. 

(ii)       The field work for improvement of crop statistics:-

                   A sample check on  area survey conducted by the Amins of DLRS alongwith  same for CCEs 
                   are conducted parallely with  N.S.S.O  (G.O.I.).throughout all seasons in every year as per  
                   requirement of improvement of Crop Statistics Scheme, GOI.  

        (iii)     Cereal Consumption Survey Work:-

                   A survey  to determine marketable  surplus of Rice, Wheat are  conducted in every year.   

        (iv)     Secondary data collected from all municipalities for preparation of municipal statistics as well 
                   as  estimation of state domestic product every year. 

        (v)      Basic secondary data on climate, education, health, agricultural statistics, land, transport 
                   tourism, revenue collection etc. are collected from various govt. / semi govt. / govt. 
                   undertakings / local bodies  for publication of district statistical Hand Book, Statistical Abstract, 
                   Economic Review every year. 

        (vi)     Various Socio-economic survey works are conducted for State sample for various rounds of 
                   Surveys of N.S.S.O.(G.O.I) as per their schedule & instructions.    

      (vii)      Annual  Survey of Industries to determine basically gross value added (GVA) of industries are                   conducted for State sample  parallely with N.S.S.O.(G.O.I) in every year from selected factories.

      (viii)      Market price of daily use commodities, e.g., different food items, clothings etc. are 
                    collected  in every fortnight from selected markets. Market price of cattle are collected once in 
                    a month. Production data are collected from selected factories every month for preparation of 
                    Index of Industries Production (IIP) as per requirement of C.S.O. (G.O.I.) 

                  Non-periodic works :-

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