Lok Sabha Question No. 1831 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-21
Subject: DGCIS
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangre, Ranjeetsingh Naik Nimbalkar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1831 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 st   SEPTEMBER, 2020

## DGCIS

## 1831.  SHRI SUDHAKAR TUKARAM SHRANGARE: SHRI RANJEETSINGH HINDURAO NAIK NIMBALKAR:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ( वािण�य एवं उ�ोग मं�ी ) be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is planning to make available the entire data of Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics(DGCIS) to the public;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the current status of the proposal;
- (c) whether DGCIS is charging for the data and has generated revenue from the sale of such data during the last ten years and if so, the details thereof, year-wise;
- (d) the details of funds allocated and spent for the data collection by DGCIS in the last ten years and the current year; and
- (e) whether the Government is making service export data from States and Union Territories public or is it notifying databases in line with DGCIS for commodities exports and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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## THE MINISTER OF  COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

(a) & (b): As per Data Dissemination Policy of DGCIS, only country-wise, commodity-wise and port-wise information along with State-wise export are disseminated to public. At present, there is no proposal to change this policy.

- (c): Private users of trade data are charged @ Re 1.00 for each record/row of data and subscription charges for annual bulk data for Indian users are Rs. 350,000/- per year and US$ 7500.00 per year for foreign users. The amount collected from private users during the last 10 years and current year is given below:
- (d): There is no separate fund allocation for data collection. However,  expenditure of DGCIS for the last 10 years and current year is given below:
- (e): At present, only aggregate services exports data from RBI releases is being provided to public.

| Year-wise collection of amount from Domestic Buyers   | Year-wise collection of amount from Domestic Buyers   |
|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| Financial Year                                        | Value (INR)                                           |
| 2010-11                                               | 14,05,106                                             |
| 2011-12                                               | 9,03,425                                              |
| 2012-13                                               | 25,25,121                                             |
| 2013-14                                               | 23,28,905                                             |
| 2014-15                                               | 26,06,421                                             |
| 2015-16                                               | 21,53,321                                             |
| 2016-17                                               | 24,53,839                                             |
| 2017-18                                               | 29,30,543                                             |
| 2018-19                                               | 43,19,702                                             |
| 2019-20                                               | 55,43,363                                             |
| 2020-21 (upto 15 th Sept, 2020)                       | 25,92,947                                             |
| Total Total                                           | 297,62,794 297,62,794                                 |

| Year-wise collection of amount from Foreign Buyers   | Year-wise collection of amount from Foreign Buyers   |
|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| Calendar Year                                        | Value (US$)                                          |
| 2012                                                 | 62.34                                                |
| 2013                                                 | 17.20                                                |
| 2014                                                 | 92.25                                                |
| 2015                                                 | 17,603.14                                            |
| 2016                                                 | 17,725.29                                            |
| 2017                                                 | 17,738.41                                            |
| 2018                                                 | 20,254.21                                            |
| 2019                                                 | 45,061.33                                            |
| 2020 (upto Sept, 2020)                               | 22,500.00                                            |
| Total                                                | 1,41,054.17                                          |

|   S. No. | Financial Year    |   Expenditure ( In Rs. Crore) |
|----------|-------------------|-------------------------------|
|        1 | 2011-12           |                         22.65 |
|        2 | 2012-13           |                         24.64 |
|        3 | 2013-14           |                         26.64 |
|        4 | 2014-15           |                         33.38 |
|        5 | 2015-16           |                         32.05 |
|        6 | 2016-17           |                         38.08 |
|        7 | 2017-18           |                         41.57 |
|        8 | 2018-19           |                         45.14 |
|        9 | 2019-20           |                         38.78 |
|       10 | 2020-21(upto Aug) |                         13.47 |