Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar named as chairperson of the National Statistical Commission: Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar, Professor Emeritus at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), has been appointed as the part-time head of India’s National Statistical Commission (NSC) for a three-year term. He will take up this role as an additional responsibility while continuing as Professor Emeritus at CMI. He joined CMI as a visiting professor in 2010, and officiated as the Director of CMI from January 2011 to April 2021.
December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz
Who is Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar?
- Mr. Karandikar is widely known for his three decades of work on probability theory as well as applications of mathematics and statistics to real world questions.
- Since 1998, he has designed, overseen, and analysed nationwide opinion surveys for Indian legislative elections as well as State assemblies. He is known for developing a new model and methodology for seat prediction, which has been quite successful for over the last 20 years.
- Mr. Karandikar was a member of the committee constituted by the Election Commission (EC) of India to advice the EC on the sampling scheme for EVM-VVPAT verification.
National Statistical Commission (NSC) of India:
The National Security Council (NSC) is an autonomous organisation established in June 2005 on the proposal of the Dr. C Rangarajan commission. The objective of its constitution was to reduce the problems faced by statistical agencies in the country with respect to the collection of data, and strengthen public trust in the numbers released by the Government of India. The Commission’s chairperson is a Minister of State in the Government of India.
