(10 April 2023) Government Data Roundup: Reports By MoSPI, RBI, Draft NCF-2023 For School Education Among Those Released Recently - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
April 10, 2023
The 26th edition of the fortnightly government roundup covers reports released by MoSPI, RBI, Ministry of Labour, draft NCF-2023 released by the Ministry of Education among others.
In this 26 edition of the fortnightly roundup of government data, we look at some of the reports released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), RBI, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, and the RBI. We also look at draft National Curriculum Framework released by Ministry of Education.
Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective – January 2023
About the report
MoSPI has been releasing this report since April’2018 and provides employment related statistics in the formal sector covering the period September 2017 onwards.  This includes information on the number of subscribers who have subscribed under three major schemes – Employees Provident Fund (EPFO) Scheme, the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Scheme and the National Pension Scheme (NPS)
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Basic Statistical Returns: Outstanding Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks
About the Report
Basic Statistical Returns (BSR-1): Outstanding Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks is published by the Reserve Bank of India. The report captures the various characteristics of bank credit. This includes – occupation/activity of the borrower, type of account, interest rates, etc. The report is compiled from the data reported by 90 Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs), with the exclusion of Regional Rural Banks. The report is made available by RBI on its Database of Indian Economy (DBIE) portal.
Data from Basic Statistical Returns (BSR) system is a key part of the expansion of the Indian banking system and financial inclusion policies since 1972.
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Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers – February 2023.
About the Report
The Labour Bureau of Ministry of Labour & Employment, compiles Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month based on retail prices collected from 317 markets spread across 88 industrially important centres in the country. The report is released on the last working day of the next month. The latest contains the index for the month of February 2023.
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Index of Eight Core Industries
About the Report
Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) is compiled and released by the Office of the Economic Adviser (OEA), Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
It is a production volume index that evaluates the performance of each core industry, both individually and collectively. They are significant and have an influence on other industrial activities. These industries in the order of their weight in the index are Petroleum Refinery Industry (28.04%), Electricity (19.85%), Steel (17.92%), Coal (10.33%), Crude Oil (8.98%), Natural Gas (6.88%), Cement (5.37%), and fertilizers (2.63%). These sectors account for a combined 40.27% of the weighted average of all the items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).
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National Curriculum Framework for School education -2023
Government of India released a “pre-draft” of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for School Education (2023) on 06 April 2023. It has invited suggestions from various Stake holders i.e., students, parents, teachers, scholars etc. NCF was last revised in 2005.
The National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF) is developed based on the vision of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. It is aimed at addressing the education for the age group of 3 to 18 years across all the educational institutions in the country. NCF is across the four Stages in the 5+3+3+4 Curricular and Pedagogical restructuring of School Education as per NEP 2020.
Few of the significant recommendations in this draft NCF include: