The chairman of the council of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, has convened a meeting of the institute’s highest administrative body on January 24 to “discuss the ISI bill”. The meeting will be the first time the bill is discussed at a council meeting since it was uploaded on the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation’s website last year. ADVERTISEMENTThe agenda of the meeting states that the members of the “ISI governing council are the pertinent stakeholders as regards to the proposed ISI Bill, 2025” and that “the council may deliberate on the draft ISI bill and present a collective opinion”. A senior professor who is a council member said that during the previous council meeting, held online on September 12, representatives of the ministry had declined to discuss the bill. A council member said on Saturday: “This consultation exercise with the apex administrative decision-making body should have been held before putting the bill out in the public domain.”“We will take up the loopholes in the bill at the council meeting,” the member added.

Source: The Telegraph January 18, 2026 00:23 UTC