Read the sentence
A. The National Statistical Commission was set up.
B. MoSPI has launched e-Sankhyiki Portal in June.
C. United Nations Statistics Commission (UNSC), established.
D. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) came into existence as an independent ministry.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → C, A, D, B
Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. However, none of the given options appears to be correct, because MoSPI became an independent ministry (D) before the National Statistical Commission was set up (A), so the true order is C, D, A, B, as explained below.
The options are orders of the four events, so the question asks for their chronological order. The date of each event:
C. United Nations Statistics Commission (UNSC), established — 1946. The UN Economic and Social Council set up the Statistical Commission in its first year; it met for its first session in 1947.
D. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) came into existence as an independent ministry — 15 October 1999, when the Department of Statistics and the Department of Programme Implementation were merged.
A. The National Statistical Commission was set up — by a Government of India resolution of 1 June 2005, on the advice of the Rangarajan Commission; it began work in July 2006.
B. MoSPI has launched e-Sankhyiki Portal in June — 29 June 2024, on Statistics Day, as a single portal for official statistical data.