**Executive Summary**
On June 17, 2026, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the appointment of a new Chairperson and three Members to the National Statistical Commission (NSC). These appointments aim to strengthen the nodal body responsible for evolving national statistical policies, standards, and priorities. The newly appointed officials will lead the Commission in its mandate to ensure the quality, integrity, and coordination of statistical activities across India.
**Key Points / Main Content**
**New Leadership Appointments**
* **Chairperson:** Dr. Saibal Chattopadhyay, former Director of IIM Calcutta and an expert in sequential estimation and survey sampling.
* **Member:** Prof. Shubhabrata Das, Professor at IIM Bangalore with expertise in operational research and fuzzy data analysis.
* **Member:** Shri Satyendra Bahadur Singh, a retired 1987-batch Indian Statistical Service officer with over 30 years of experience in official and economic statistics.
* **Member:** Dr. Madhavan Mukund, Director of Chennai Mathematical Institute and an expert in Computer Science.
**Commission Structure**
* The NSC consists of a part-time Chairperson and four part-time Members with specialized statistical experience.
* The CEO of NITI Aayog serves as an ex-officio Member.
* The Secretary of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) serves as the Secretary to the Commission.
**Primary Responsibilities and Functions**
* **Policy and Standards:** Evolving national policies and standardizing statistical concepts, definitions, and methodologies.
* **Quality Assurance:** Laying down national quality standards for core statistics and performing statistical audits to ensure data integrity.
* **Coordination:** Facilitating effective coordination between Central Ministries, State Governments, and Union Territory Administrations.
* **Monitoring:** Reviewing the functioning of the national statistical system to recommend measures for enhanced performance and public trust.
**Impact Analysis**
**Appointed Chairperson and Members**
**Impact**
They are now responsible for directing the country's core statistical activities and enforcing national priorities.
**Action Required**
Assume their respective roles to oversee policy evolution, monitor statistical standards, and recommend performance enhancements.
**Central Ministries and State/UT Administrations**
**Impact**
These bodies are subject to increased coordination, monitoring, and statistical audits conducted by the NSC.
**Action Required**
Align departmental statistical activities with the standards and methodologies prescribed by the newly constituted Commission.
**National Statistical Commission (NSC)**
**Impact**
The Commission gains specialized expertise in areas ranging from computer science and administrative statistics to advanced mathematical research.
**Action Required**
Utilize the diverse expertise of the new members to improve public trust in official statistics and implement national quality standards effectively.
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation
Appointment of Chairperson and Members in the
National Statistical Commission
प्रव तथ: 17 JUN 2026 5:34PM by PIB Delhi
The National Statistical Commission (NSC) was set up in 2005 to serve as a nodal body for all core
statistical activities of the country, to evolve, monitor and enforce statistical priorities and standards and to
ensure statistical co-ordination. The Commission consists of a part-time Chairperson, four part-time
Members having specialization and experience in areas of statistics, and the CEO, NITI Aayog as an ex-
officio Member. Secretary, MoSPI is the Secretary to the NSC.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of the Chairman and
Members of the National Statistical Commission as follows:
1. Dr. Saibal Chattopadhyay, Chairperson
2. Prof. Shubhabrata Das, Member
3. Shri Satyendra Bahadur Singh, Member
4. Dr. Madhavan Mukund, Member
Dr. Saibal Chattopadhyay is former Director of Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. He holds a Ph.D
in Statistics and also MS in Statistics from University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA and MSc and BSc in
Statistics from Calcutta University. His area of specialization includes Sequential methods in estimation,
and in selection and ranking problems; Inference on finite population and survey sampling; Multi-stage
sampling methods in environmental health and in clinical studies and Quantitative techniques in advanced
marketing research.
Prof. Shubhabrata Das is a Professor in Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He holds a Ph.D. and
MS in Statistics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and M.Stat and B.Stat from Indian
Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His area of specialization includes statistics, operational research, actuarial
mathematics, fuzzy data analysis, measurement and scaling, applications in management, social,
environment and other disciplines.
Shri Satyendra Bahadur Singh, is a retired Officer of the Indian Statistical Service, 1987 batch with a
career spanning more than three decades in the Government of India, having extensive experience in
Official Statistics, Economic statistics, labour and employment statistics, policy support, training, and
administration.
Dr. Madhavan Mukund, is Director, Chennai Mathematical Institute. He has a PhD in Computer Science,
Aarhus University, Denmark and B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay.
The National Statistical Commission is responsible for evolving national policies and priorities relating to
the statistical system, measures for improving public trust in official statistics and standard statistical
concepts, definitions, classifications, methodologies in different areas in statistics, laying down national
quality standards on core statistics and recommending measures to effectively implement the standards.The functions of NSC also include evolving measures for effective co-ordination with State Governments
and Union Territory Administrations on statistical activities as well as statistical co-ordination between
Ministries, Departments and other agencies of the Central Government and undertaking statistical audit
over the statistical activities to ensure quality and integrity of the statistical products. The Commission
monitors and review the functioning of the statistical system in the light of the laid down policies,
standards and methodologies and recommend measures for enhanced performance.
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