be an important partner in data collection with technology to be harnessed said sources familiar with the discussionsthe rangarajan committee had recommended these steps while pointing out data gaps and duplication leading to conflicting statistics and delay in transmission and publication of data but over the last 19 years the government has failed to act on a bulk of the recommendationspronab sen who was the countrys first chief statistician blames lack of resources for some of the problems a substantial number of recommendations of the rangarajan committee have been implemented said sen who later became chairman of the national statistical commission you need more manpower getting additional resources in the government is a major problem he added sen is now heading a panel set up to revamp statisticsasked whether there was an underestimation of gdp as a result of the outdated parameters sen said you have no idea which way the bias is another former chief statistician who did not wish to be quoted said a significant number of recommendations of the rangarajan committee had been implemented but the actual number cannot be computed