ECO-SRIVASTAVA

The government is contemplating

to initiate a new methodology for data collection in future

for meeting sustainable development goals, a senior official

said Thursday.

There was a need for bringing in revolution in data

collection with more algorithms, Statistics and Program

Implementation Secretary Pravin Srivastava said.

"We need to meet the targets of sustainable

development goals for which new methodology for data

collection is needed," Srivastava said.

The government is looking at avenues such as

artificial intelligence, big data and data analytics,

Srivastava said at the convocation of the Indian Statistical

Institute (ISI) here.

"Data comes at a cost. It is used in policy making,"

he said.

Srivastava urged the graduating ISI students to go for

researches in the regard.