The first ever, pan-India National Household Income Survey (NHIS), slated to begin in February, may be one of the “toughest” surveys the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has done and key to its success will be raising public awareness and gaining their confidence, MoSPI Secretary Saurabh Garg told The Indian Express.

“Globally, income surveys are the toughest. That’s the reason we have tried three times in the past and then we had to back out. But we are going to go ahead with this, but let’s see what the results come out to be. We can’t predict that, but we are hopeful”, Garg said in an exclusive interview.

The NHIS is set to be launched in February 2026 and its results should be available by the middle of 2027.

Past efforts to measure incomes of Indian house

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