Govt appoints GP Samanta as new Chief Statistician

The government has appointed G P Samanta as the new Chief Statistician of India for a period of two years. Samanta was till now an adviser in the RBI’s Department Of Statistics and Information Management. “The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Dr GP Samanta…as Chief Statistician of India (CSI)-cum-Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation…