Selected Socio-Economic Statistics, India 1998

Abstract

From Preface: During the last 50 years of independence, the country has taken long strides in the sphere of socio-economic development through sustained planned development efforts. It has been the endeavour of the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) to provide relevant and up-to-date socio-economic statistics being generated by different Government and other organizations to planners, policy makers and research scholars on a single platform for critical assessment and evaluation of various developmental programmes being implemented in the country. The present volume of the publication “Selected Socio-Economic Statistics, India”, seventh in the series of such publications since its inception in 1987, is an effort in this direction. A very positive response from users of the publication has encouraged us to continuously expand and improve the coverage and quality of the publication over the years. With this issue, the publication has been made most up-to-date and previous backlog has been liquidated.