Comments in the National Statistics Bill 2019 of Nepal
Through this blog, I have tried to examine the provisions contained in the New Statistics Bill which is currently in the Upper House of Nepal's Parliament. Initial Impression At present, Statistics Bill 1958 is prevalent in Nepal that underwent 8 amendments since its formulation. The last amendment was made in 2010. In this 10 years, the entire world including Nepal saw a tremendous change in the definition of statistics, data and governance. Specific to Nepal, the devolution of powers into federal, provincial and local governments has specific interests in terms of statistics production, custodian, publication and use. Objectives that I think the new bill has envisioned achieving: I saw from the Preamble that the Government of Nepal has realized that the objective widened from significant of statistics for national planning to the production, processing, storage, publication and distribution plus influence in policy making in all three tiers of governments. I find this a ve...