NSSO, Livestock Census, NCRB, even Census data, are slowly getting strangled by delays but more so by wilful omissions of parts.
In the past five and a half years, several key data releases have been excised, mangled, delayed or even suppressed. Since these are all generated, collated and processed by dedicated departments of the central government, it is not a leap of imagination that there is some deliberate intent behind this.
Stray Cattle in Livestock Census
The recently released Key Indicators of the 20th Livestock Census is the latest example of this data manipulation. The Census has been conducted periodically since 1919. The latest round was carried out starting October 2018. For the first time, a complete online system was designed and used by 80,000 field staff covering every village, urban ward reaching 27 crore households. Because of the digital technology used, its results have been made available in a year.
While all the usual aspects like counting the numbers of various animals – cattle, buffaloes, various other domesticated animals, poultry etc. – have been done and the summary results released, one key item is missing. That is: the number of stray cattle.
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