New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- With the objective of facilitating easy access to official statistics for all users, while implementing a basic requirement for official data (i.e. protecting confidentiality), so that the purpose of data-driven governance and inclusive development is better served, the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) recently prepared a draft of revised Guidelines for Statistical Data Dissemination and placed it in the public domain for comments.

As the theme indicates, this version proposes to revise MoSPI's 2019 guidelines "to provide seamless access of statistical data to all stakeholders including government, semi-government, private data users, or international agencies, and promote data-drive...