{"id":236648,"date":"2023-04-07T20:55:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236648"},"modified":"2023-04-10T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T08:45:04","slug":"india-elected-to-un-statistical-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-elected-to-un-statistical-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"India elected to UN Statistical Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndia elected to UN Statistical Commission<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>7th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has been elected to the UN Statistical Commission for a four-year term.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the United<\/b><b> Nations Statistical Commission?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United Nations Statistical Commission was established in 1947.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the highest body of the global statistical system bringing together the Chief Statisticians from member states from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Functions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is responsible for setting statistical standards and the development of concepts and methods, including their implementation at the national and international levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ommission also oversees the work of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and it is a Functional Commission of the UN Economic and Social Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Headquarters: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Composition:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Commission consists of 24 member countries of the United Nations elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council on the basis of equitable geographical distribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Term:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The term of office of members is four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India was a member of the Statistical Commission last in 2004 and the country is returning to the UN agency after a gap of two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia elected to UN Statistical Commission\u201d published in The Hindu on 7th April 2023 What is the News? India has been elected to the UN Statistical Commission for a four-year term. What is the United Nations Statistical Commission? The United Nations Statistical Commission was established in 1947.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-elected-to-un-statistical-commission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India elected to UN Statistical Commission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1236,9],"tags":[10498,11397],"class_list":["post-236648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-public","tag-the-hindu","tag-un-statistical-commission","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}