Nivedita Gupta
Sc. (Statistics Hons.) Presidency College Kolkata, India
Sc. (Statistics), Calcutta University, India
Expertise: National Accounts Statistics, Health and Socio economic Statistics.
Life Membership: Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth [currently Secretary, IARNIW]
She is a Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) officer of “Indian Statistical Service (ISS) – 1986 Batch. She has rich experience in varied fields of official statistics in Government for over the last 35 years.
She is currently working as the Additional Director General and heading the National Accounts Division, National Statistical Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. The Division is responsible for the preparation of national accounts, which includes Gross Domestic Product, Government and Private Final Consumption Expenditure, Fixed Capital Formation and other macro-economic aggregates. Other important activities of the Division are: (i) preparation of advance and quarterly estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at current and constant prices, (ii) Supply Use tables and Input-Output Transaction Tables (IOTT) and (iii) preparation of comparable estimates of State Domestic Product (SDP).
She had worked in different capacities in the domain of Foreign Trade Statistics; Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises; Annual Survey of industries; Index of Industrial Production; Economic Census etc. She has also a sound base in the field of socio-economic Statistics in India through her two-decade long work on various aspects, including designing and data processing, of National Sample Surveys.
Prior to assuming charge in National Accounts Statistics last year she worked as Chief Director of Statistics in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. She had played a leading role in the conduct of ‘2019-21 National Family Health Survey-5’during the challenging times of the year 2020- 21. She had been instrumental in timely completion of the Survey and finalizing its findings which covers crucial socio-economic survey data of recent times.
Ms. Nivedita takes keen interest in analyzing the datasets she has worked on at different points of her career. Notable among them is a paper she coauthored on district level poverty and inequality in India titled “Levels of Living and Poverty Patterns – A District-wise Analysis in India”, which was published in Economic & Political Weekly in February, 2009. This particular paper is acknowledged by users as a pioneering work on district level poverty in India.