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Man behind India's data-driven development

National Statistics Day (June 29)
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Vaishnavi Sood
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, Updated At : 06:40 AM Jun 29, 2025 IST
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Long before data became the new oil, there was a man quietly building the pipelines. Every year on June 29, India celebrates National Statistics Day to honour the birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the statistician who gave independent India the tools to plan, measure and grow.

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