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The government of India celebrated National Statistics day on the twenty-ninth of June on the delivery anniversary of Prof. P C Mahalanobis. The Day is celebrated to create focus among early life about statistics in socio-economic planning and policy formulation. The Day to popularize the use of Statistics in everyday life and sensitize the public about how Statistics helps shape and frame policies.<\/p>\n

End Hunger, Achieve & Improved Nutrition<\/a> and Promote Agriculture<\/a>-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture<\/a>“>Sustainable Agriculture<\/a> (Sustainable Development<\/a> Goal or SDG 2 of the UN<\/a>) is the theme of this years National Statistics Day.<\/p>\n

Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is known as the father of Indian Statistics. He used to be born on 29 June 1893, an Indian statistician and scientist. He devised a measure of evaluation between two statistics sets that are now known as the Mahalanobis distance.<\/p>\n

He was once a member of the Planning Commission<\/a>(1956-61), and he gave a two-sector Input-output model for the Second Five Year Plan<\/a>, which later grew to become regarded as the Nehru-Mahalanobis model. He founded Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in December 1931 in Kolkata. Those are Padma Vibhushan (1968), Weldon Memorial Prize from the University of Oxford (1944), Fellow of the Royal Society<\/a>, London(1945). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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