Consider the following : 1. Demographic performance 2. Forest and ecology 3. Governance reforms 4. Stable government 5. Tax and fiscal efforts For the horizontal tax devolution, the Fifteenth Finance Commission used how many of the above as criteria other than population, area and income distance?

The Office of the Economic Adviser in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, which is a department of that ministry, compiles and releases the Wholesale Price Index every month, along with the index of eight core industries; the wholesale index covers primary articles, fuel and power and…

The index measures the short term change in the volume of production of the industrial sector and is published every month, with mining, manufacturing and electricity as its three sectors and a use-based classification into primary goods, capital goods, intermediate goods, infrastructure and construction goods, consumer durables and consumer non-durables.

It empowers the Union, the State and local governments to collect statistics on economic, demographic, social, scientific and environmental matters, obliges the informant to furnish the information asked for, and bars the disclosure of the information of an individual informant for any purpose other than statistics; it was amended in…

The commission headed by C. Rangarajan reviewed the Indian statistical system and recommended a permanent and autonomous body to lay down standards, so the National Statistical Commission was constituted in 2005 as an advisory body with a part-time chairperson, members and the chief executive officer as its secretary; the chief…

The survey was launched in 2017 in place of the earlier five-yearly employment and unemployment rounds of the National Sample Survey, and it reports the labour force participation rate, the worker population ratio and the unemployment rate on the three activity statuses, namely usual status, current weekly status and current…