The Reserve Bank has constituted an Expert Committee to: (a) benchmark the statistics regularly disseminated by it against global standards / best practices; (b) study the quality of other regular data, where such benchmarks do not exist (e.g., sectors of national priority); and (c) provide guidance on the scope for any further data refinement. Following is the composition of the Expert Committee: | 1 | Dr. Michael Debabrata Patra
Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India | Chairman | | 2 | Dr. R. B. Barman
Former Chairman, National Statistical Commission | Member | | 3 | Prof. Sonalde Desai
National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi and University of Maryland, USA | Member | | 4 | Dr. Partha Ray
Director, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune | Member | | 5 | Prof. Bimal Roy
Former Chairman, National Statistical Commission; and Former Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata | Member | | 6 | Dr. Paul Schreyer
Former Chief Statistician, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Member | | 7 | Shri Sudarshan Sen
Former Executive Director, RBI | Member | | 8 | Dr. Bruno Tissot
Head of Statistics and Research Support, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) | Member | | 9 | Shri Muneesh Kapur
Executive Director, RBI | Member | | 10 | Dr. O.P.Mall
Executive Director, RBI | Convenor | The Committee will submit its report by the end of November 2024. The Reserve Bank’s Department of Statistics and Information Management (DSIM) will provide the necessary secretarial assistance to the Committee. (Puneet Pancholy)
Chief General Manager Press Release: 2024-2025/879 |
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