Cooperate with agri survey, appeals statistics director

Thiruvananthapuram: Economic and statistics department director has appealed to people to cooperate with the survey conducted by the department. With the campaign against NRC in the background, enumerators fear assault from people, said sources in the department.
The director in a statement made it clear that the survey had nothing to do with NRC. The survey is being done to create the consumer price index as part of the scheme mooted by the Centre for establishment of an agency for reporting agricultural statistics.
This scheme is a component of the main scheme ‘improvement of agricultural statistics’, which is implemented by the ministry of agriculture and cooperation, Government of India.
Department of economics and statistics is the nodal agency of this scheme in the state. Agricultural statistics is collected through sample surveys covering the entire state, excluding regions declared as reserve forests. At present, under this scheme, 811 investigator zones are functioning and 100 clusters are selected randomly from each zone.
The major findings in the publication “agricultural statistics” prepared by this department in every agriculture year are used for implementing various governments decisions. The survey is conducted by classifying land into wet and dry land.
Also, the geographical area of the state has been classified according to 13 different patterns of land use such as bearer and uncultivable land, building and courtyard, other non-agricultural uses. Along with this survey, details for preparing the index for sustainable development and domestic tourism will also be collected.