<p class="title">Two independent members of the National Statistical Commission, P C Mohanan and J V Meenakshi, have resigned over disagreement with the government on certain issues, an official said Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mohanan was also the acting chairperson. With the two members quitting, the NSC now has only two members -- Chief Statistician Pravin Srivastava and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I have resigned from NSC. We thought that the commission is not very effective now a days and we also thought that we are not able to discharge the commission's responsibility," Mohanan told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both members tendered their resignation on January 28, 2019, an official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The NSC, under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), is to have seven members, as per its website. Already, three posts were vacant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tenure of Mohanan and Meenakshi was to end in June 2020. They joined as members in June 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reportedly, these two members are said to have resigned over disagreement with the government on some issues, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In November last year, the NITI Aayog had come under fire for announcing the revised GDP data of the UPA years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar and Chief Statistician Srivastava had announced the back-series data by the government.</p>
<p class="title">Two independent members of the National Statistical Commission, P C Mohanan and J V Meenakshi, have resigned over disagreement with the government on certain issues, an official said Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mohanan was also the acting chairperson. With the two members quitting, the NSC now has only two members -- Chief Statistician Pravin Srivastava and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I have resigned from NSC. We thought that the commission is not very effective now a days and we also thought that we are not able to discharge the commission's responsibility," Mohanan told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both members tendered their resignation on January 28, 2019, an official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The NSC, under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), is to have seven members, as per its website. Already, three posts were vacant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tenure of Mohanan and Meenakshi was to end in June 2020. They joined as members in June 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reportedly, these two members are said to have resigned over disagreement with the government on some issues, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In November last year, the NITI Aayog had come under fire for announcing the revised GDP data of the UPA years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar and Chief Statistician Srivastava had announced the back-series data by the government.</p>