National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been publishing 'Sarvekshana' since July, 1977. It has been the major source of information on socio-economic surveys undertaken by the Organisation on various aspects of national importance. In fact originally Sarvekshana was the only publication through which the results of various socio-economic surveys od NSSO were available to the public. However subsequently NSSO started releasing survey results in the form of reports.

Both a Committee appointed by the Government in 1998 to review the functioning of NSSO and the National Statistical Commssion recommended that, Sarvekshana be converted into a technical journal. In line with the recommendation, an 'Editorial Advisory Board' was appointed by the Government of India in 2001 to advise the Organisation on various issues relating to the publication. The Board decided in its first meeting to make Sarvekshana a bi-annual publication with three distinct sections consisting of (a) technical papers (b) summary and major findings of the survey and (c) special tabulations which are not included in the reports.

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