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National Statistics day – June 29
June 30 , 2022
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- The government of India is celebrated on the birth anniversary of Mahalanobis.
- The theme for this year is 'Data for Sustainable Development’.
- It was first celebrated on 29th June 2007.
- The Day is celebrated to create awareness among youth about the role of statistics in socio-economic planning and policy formulation.
- Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is known as the father of Indian Statistics.
- He devised a measure of comparison between two data sets that are now known as the Mahalanobis distance.
- He gave a two-sector Input-output model for the Second Five Year Plan.
- It was later become known as the Nehru-Mahalanobis model.
- He founded Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in December 1931 in Kolkata.
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