Lok Sabha Question No. 6168 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-04-01
Subject: Digitalisation and Technological Upgradation of Statistical Systems
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: Dr. C M Ramesh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 6168 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.04.2026

## DIGITALISATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL UPGRADATION OF

## STATISTICAL SYSTEMS

## 6168. DR. C M RAMESH:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION be  pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  undertaken  digitalisation  and technological  upgradation  of  the  Official  Statistical  System  to improve data collection, validation, processing and dissemination and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the details of digital initiatives launched including the revamped Microdata Portal, adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and  Machine  Learning  (ML)  tools  and  modern  data  management systems;
- (c) whether  these  initiatives  aim  to  enhance  transparency,  realtime accessibility and reliability of Official statistics and if so, the manner in which these objectives are being achieved;
- (d) the measures taken to ensure data security, privacy protection  and  cybersecurity  safeguards  in  view  of  increased digital integration; and
- (e) the  financial  outlay,  implementation  timeline  and  expected outcomes of these technological reforms?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY  OF STATISTICS  AND  PROGRAMME  IMPLEMENTATION; MINISTER  OF  STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF  PLANNING  AND  MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF CULTURE [RAO INDERJIT SINGH]

- (a) to  (e)  :  Yes  Sir,  Digitalisation  and  technological  upgradation consisting of various modules related to data collection, processing, analysis and dissemination have been undertaken for

improvement  of  the  Official  Statistical  System  by  the  Ministry. Further, Data Innovation Lab component under Capacity Development Scheme has been launched for incorporating emerging  technologies  including  Artificial  Intelligence  (AI)  and Machine  Learning  (ML)  in  Official  statistical  systems.  Six  use cases  of  AI  &  ML  have  been  deployed.  Through  these  intiatives, the  access to Official statistics has been made seamless for the stakeholders. The data dissemination, in machine readable format through  API,  has  reduced  the  timeline  between  publication  and access of data. Security  by  design  principles  have  been  incorporated  at  the development stage. All the guidelines issued by National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on cyber security are being implemented.    Moreover,  MoSPI  has  onboarded  an  agency  for ensuring compliance with the cyber security guidelines by different  users.  Ministry  has  also  appointed  Chief  Information Security  Officer  (CISO)  for  the  purpose.  All  the  applications  are deployed  after  security  audit  and  Secure  Sockets  Layer  (SSL) certification. Technological reforms are  continuous in nature and are made part of  annual  action  plan  on  need  basis.  The  expected  outcomes  of these reforms would be improvements in data collection, validation, processing and dissemination.

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