<p>Strengthening the administrative statistics in the data ecosystem of official statistics in India.&nbsp;Coordinating, managing and monitoring data sources used in Statistical Performance Indicator (SPI)&nbsp;released by the World Bank.&nbsp;Put in place a governance structure, i.e. policies, directives, guidelines, practices and tools that will&nbsp;support acquisition, management and efficient use of administrative data.&nbsp;Coordinating with other Departments/Ministries (through the Statistical Advisors) in examining the&nbsp;statistical potential of the administrative records held by those organizations to help in building&nbsp;statistical requirements into administrative system; then creation or redeveloping their administrative&nbsp;records system.&nbsp;Facilitating creation of repository of information including meta data about administrative datasets&nbsp;available with all the Ministries/Departments.&nbsp;Examining the legal framework that exist with regard to access of data from the custodial organisations.&nbsp;Released a concept paper on &ldquo;Administrative Data: Issues, Concerns and Prospects&rdquo; of using&nbsp;administrative data as a part of Official Statistical System.</p>
<p>Released National Meta Data Structure (NMDS) for Statistical Products. It is a set of guidelines for data&nbsp;producers to adhere to a basic minimum quality standard in order to establish and maintain the quality of&nbsp;data and enhance ease in sharing data.&nbsp;Evolving a mechanism for reconciliation of divergent datasets in the Central Government&nbsp;Ministries/Departments and the State Governments.</p>
<p>Facilitating the Central Government Ministries/Departments to use Collection of Statistics (CoS), Act,&nbsp;2008 to collect, process and disseminate data.&nbsp;Facilitating the Divisions of National Statistics Office (NSO), India to implement the Data privacy law, the&nbsp;Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP), Act, 2023.</p>
<p>Transfered to another Ministry</p>