Friday, January 10, 2014

Will CSO include GDP contribution of sex workers, beggars and eunuchs as Census 2011 has already counted them in our population distinctly?



GDP of India do not cover illegal activities like those of beggars, sex workers, thieves, black marketers, corrupt means practitioners and so on.  Census 2011 has tried to capture number of beggars, sex workers and eunuchs separately.  May be Central Statistical Office may like to incorporate the contribution of these illegal activities in our GDP.  This is also the requirement of International System of National Accounts.  When they would be increasing our GDP and thus rightly estimating per capita income by taking the above into their accounts is a question at present.

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  1. Yes, why all these economic activities are not taken into account

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