{"id":34567,"date":"2018-07-01T02:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=34567"},"modified":"2018-07-01T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:55:10","slug":"statistics-day-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/01\/statistics-day-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Day celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 30:<\/strong> The directorate of economics &amp; statistics here celebrated the 12th Statistics Day, commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of great statistician Prof PC Mahalanobis, in a grand manner on Friday.<br \/>\nEconomics &amp; Statistics Director B Megu highlighted the contribution made by Prof Mahalanobis to the nation.<br \/>\n&#8220;The second Five-Year Plan of the country was adopted on the Mahalanobis model of economic growth, which worked towards rapid industrialization,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nProf Mahalanobis&#8217;s contributions in the field of statistics were also instrumental in establishing the National Sample Survey and the Central Statistical Organization, and setting up of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.<br \/>\nInforming that the programme will become a regular feature henceforth, Research Officer L Regon requested school authorities and students to take active part in such programmes in the days to come.<br \/>\nA quiz competition was organized to mark the celebration. VKV Chimpu bagged the first prize, while GHSS Arunodaya and KV No 2 secured second and third position respectively. The participants were awarded with citations and mementos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 30: The directorate of economics &amp; statistics here celebrated the 12th Statistics Day, commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of great statistician Prof PC Mahalanobis, in a grand manner on Friday. Economics &amp; Statistics Director B Megu highlighted the contribution made by Prof Mahalanobis to the nation. &#8220;The second Five-Year Plan of the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}