The first survey conducted by the NSS 74 years ago, from October 1950 to March 1951, was a multi-topic survey covering only rural India. It was only in the third round, from August to November 1951, that the survey was extended to cover urban India. The NSS General Report No 1 mentions that the need to conduct surveys was recognised by both the Standing Committee of Departmental Statistics and the National Income Committee, constituted in 1948 and 1949, respectively. The immediate objective was to fill data gaps for estimating national income. As many as 10 rounds of surveys were conducted between October 1950 and May 1956.
Since the NSS operated from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, its link with academia was strong. Later, in March 1970, National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) came into existence as a unit in the Department of Statistics.
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