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Best of BS Opinion: Restore data credibility, Indo-US ties, and more

From Indo-China economic gap, Trump's game plan for Indo-Pacific to unemployment in India, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day.

Restore data credibility

Govt move to set up new panel of statisticians welcome

Unravelling India's growth story

Major structural reforms are needed to raise growth rates to the highs achieved between 2003 and 2008

1.24 mn jobs created in Oct, marginal rise from Sept: ESIC payroll data

Gross enrolments of new subscribers with ESIC were 1.49 crore during the entire financial year 2018-19, the National Statistical Office (NSO) said in a report

Who will approve and release official surveys? Draft NSC Bill stays silent

However, while the Rangarajan commission had recommended making the NSC a 'nodal and empowered body for all core statistical activities of the country',

Not in favour of scrapping consumer survey report: NSC's Bimal Kumar Roy

The government's concern is that the estimate does not look realistic. We are trying to examine the issues, says Bimal Kumar Roy

Statistical Commission to discuss junked consumer spending report on Dec 4

The NSC is an autonomous body overlooking the country's statistical system and is headed by cryptologist Bimal Kumar Roy

Rural India open defecation free? Not quite, shows NSO survey report

In 2014, NDA govt had set a target of making rural areas open defecation free by October 2, 2019 by launching the Swachh Bharat Mission to "provide access to toilet facilities to all rural households"

Over 200 global economists seek junked NSO report details from govt

Chorus to make junk NSO report public grows

Govt to give legislative backing to National Statistical Commission

NSC does not have any member at present after its acting chairman PC Mohanan and member JV Meenakshi resigned in January over allegedly being sidelined on key statistical decisions

Parties should take note of economists' data concerns: Ex-NSC chief Mohanan

In January, Mohanan had resigned as acting chairman of the Commission along with another member amid reservations over the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation regarding jobs data

India's data blues

Statistical Commission resignations point to a deeper problem

Members who quit NSC never expressed reservations during meetings: Govt

The statement comes in the wake of two independent members of the NSC, P C Mohanan and J V Meenakshi, quitting the Commission over disagreements with the government

NSC members feel 'sidelined by govt', resign on row over jobs, GDP data

PC Mohanan, who was the acting chairman of the NSC along with member JV Meenakshi resigned on Monday, leaving behind no external members in the body