Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will release a new coin of Rupees 125 and a new coin of Rs. 5 in his honor on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of PC Mahalanobis on June 29. Mahalanobis Jayanti is celebrated as a numerical day ie statistical day.
The Ministry, in a statement, said in a statement that this year's subject of Sankhyaik Din is 'quality confidence in official statistics'. The Statistical Office of the Government of India and Indian Statistical Institute have organized the program in Kolkata on June 29 to celebrate the numerical day. Due to the significant contributions made to the statistical sector by Mahalanobis, the government announced the announcement of 29 June every year as a nominal day in the year 2007.
Its aim is to make people aware of the importance of statistics in social-economic schemes and policy making. And to tell about the contribution of great figure technologist Pratanta Chandra Mahalanobis. Indian Statistical Institute was founded in 1931 by Mahalanobis.
