COOPERATION WITH NBS

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COOPERATION WITH NBS

• Ramesh Kolli
• Additional Director General
• Ministry of Statistics Programme Implementation

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Formal cooperation

• The CSO, India and NBS, China have no formal
  cooperation agreements
• NBS activities are much more broader as compared
  to the activities of CSO
• NBS activities cut across several offices in
  India
• CSO is largely a coordinating body in a
  decentralised statistical system, with the
  responsibility to compile national accounts,
  price indices and production index and
  establishing standards
• Delegations from NBS regularly visit their
  counterpart offices in India
• Since the cooperation activities are not
  centralised, there is no central database on the
  exchange of visits and topics of discussions

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NBS Visits to CSO

• Few delegations in the past 10 years
• At least one on national accounts
• In November, 2009 a delegation from NBS visited
  CSO
• Mr. Xie Hongguang, Deputy Commissioner, NBS
• Mr. Li Xiaochao, Director-General, Department of
  Comprehensive Statistics, NBS
• Mr. Zhu Yuli, Director-General, Logistic and
  Service Center of NBS
• Mr. Zeng Yuping, Director-General, China
  Information News, NBS
• Mr. Zhang Songqing, Director-General, Survey
  Office of the National Bureau of Statistics in
  Hunan
• Mrs. Song Shaoying, Deputy Director, Division of
  Bilateral Relations, Department of International
  Cooperation, NBS

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Contd

• The present delegation focused its discussions on
  
• Current economic performance
• Global financial crisis
• Data support to measure these issues
• The delegation was quite interested in knowing
  the way Indian national accounts are compiled

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Contd

• NBS officials exchange mails with the CSO on
  national accounts concepts and compilation
  procedures
• During the ICP 2005 discussions and meetings, the
  CSO and NBS officials regularly exchanged views
• A formal cooperation agreement between the two
  organisations could further the present informal
  exchange of visits
• This view was also expressed from both sides in
  the recent visit of NBS delegation to the CSO

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Thanks