National Sample Survey (NSS)

  • MoSPI organised the 75th anniversary closing ceremony in Udaipur on 18 Nov 2025.
  • Released National Industrial Classification (NIC) 2025.
  • Established in 1950 based on recommendations of National Income Committee (1949), chaired by P.C. Mahalanobis.
  • NSS has four divisions: SDRD (Kolkata), FOD (Delhi/Faridabad), DPD (Kolkata), SCD (New Delhi).
  • Objectives: collect socio-economic data for policymaking, plan evaluation, and tracking poverty, employment, consumption, health, ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Buy January 2026 Issue

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Related Content

News Notes