The District Statistical Handbook is an important and regular feature of the District containing both Census and non- Census data. The publication gives insight to the policy makers about the developmental trend over a period of time which plays a pivotal role in formulation of future strategies in overall socio economic development of the district.
The publication “District Statistical Handbook” 2020-21 is the first edition in which District Good Governance indicators have been incorporated which measures the performance of the District.
The District Statistics and Evaluation Office Budgam has collected, consolidated and compiled the data in a time bound manner with the cooperation of all Sectoral/District Officers for which staff of District Statistics & evaluation Office and District/Sectoral Offices deserve appreciation in bringing out the publication.
It is hoped that this issue would be useful for the policy makers, Planners, Research scholars, students and other stakeholders.
Suggestions for improvement for this publication shall be appreciated.
The Statistical Data on various parameters plays a pivotal role
in formulation of future strategies, which leads to development of
nation in a perfect scenario. For addressing the data requirements
of the vast spectrum of users, the Directorate of Economics &
Statistics is the sole identified department of the Jammu & Kashmir
Government, who has been assigned the job of development in the
UT. The data then is published in a form of Digest of Statistics at UT,
Regional and in form of Statistical Handbook of District level.
The District Statistical Agency has been assigned the
responsibility of collecting & publishing of data in the shape of
various district level publications on annual basis. The District
Statistics & Evaluation Office has prepared the District Statistical
Handbook for the year 2020-21 which provides comprehensive data
on Socio-economic indicators of development of District.
The Digest of Statistics will serve as an important tool in the
hands of planners, administrators, different agencies both
Government and Private and other users. It will prove a useful
document for them in their respective fields.
The current issue of District Statistical Handbook is a venture
to provide Statistical information on demography, culture and wide
range of various socio-economic parameters of the District like
Education, Public health, banking etc in a consolidated form. Efforts
have been taken to incorporate the most updated information
available including the disintegrated data at the lowest possible
level so that it could be effectively used by the Planners,
Researchers and Policy makers.
The District Good Governance index has been launched first
time in the UT of J&K during January 2022 and the instant publication
2020-21 makes it unique in feature by introducing its all 10 themes,
58 indicators along with 116 data sets.
I express my sincere gratitude to the different source offices of
the district for providing the required information.
I also like to put in my appreciation to the officials of this office
engaged in collection and compilation of the data in bringing out this
publication.
Any suggestions for enriching the publication shall be
entertained.
