28^th Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (CoCSSO) to be held on 12th-13th August 2024 in New Delhi.

This Conference provides a platform for discussion and improved coordination between the Central and State Statistical agencies for enhancing the efficiency of the Indian Statistical System.

 “Use of Data for Decision Making- Strengthening State Statistical System” is the theme of 28^th CoCSSO.

Objectives

The objectives of the conference are:

• To provide a platform for discussion on the statistical issues of common interest to the Central and the State Statistical Organisations; 
• To provide an overall perspective to the development of statistical system and to make recommendations/suggestions on issues having bearing on the development of the statistical system; 
• To solve the technical issues relating to statistics; 
• To set up Working Groups on specific issues/tasks relating to official statistics; 
• To provide guidelines in the collection of statistics and maintenance of statistical standards and quality, besides uniformity in statistical standards; 
• To consider the Action Taken Report of the follow up action on the recommendations of the previous meetings(s) of CoCSSO;
• To review the role of the Statistical Advisers in the Central and States/UT Governments.

The publication, ‘Women and Men in India, 2023’ will be released by this Ministry during the conference.

The Conference of Central and State Statistical Organisations (CoCSSO) organized every year since 1971 when first CoCSSO was organised. Earlier it was supposed to be organized once in every two years. keeping in view the usefulness of the Conference, it has now been decided to have it every year.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation came into existence as an Independent Ministry on 15.10.1999 after the merger of the Department of Statistics and the Department of Programme Implementation. Central Statistical Organisation is the statistical arm of MoSPI.

This ministry is the nodal agency for the planned and organized development of the statistical system in the country and coordination of statistical activities among different stakeholders in Government of India, State Governments as well as meeting requirements of the International Agencies. 

The publication “Women and Men in India” is prepared with the objective to provide variety of available gender statistics at one place to serve as a single platform for accessing gender statistics. The publication provides critical information through gender-equality indicators to help fast track progress in the country for a more gender-equitable society including those indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).