The Union Home Ministry informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (February 11, 2025) that “data validation” for the three statistical reports published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for the year 2023 is in final stage.
NCRB releases three annual statistical reports namely ‘Crime in India’, ‘Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India’ and ‘Prison Statistics India’. The reports were last published for the year 2022.
Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar, while responding to a question on the reasons for delays in the release of the NCRB reports, said in a written reply, “The publications collate data of a calendar year, hence, the process of collection of data is initiated only after the completion of the respective year. The data for the reports is collected from 89 data supplying centres which includes 36 States/Union Territories and 53 Metropolitan Cities i.e. Cities with a population of more than 10 lakhs. Data validation for the 2023 reports is in final stage.”
The reply added that the data is collected digitally through a dedicated software application developed by NCRB and its “consolidation and compilation is done at various levels in the District and States and subsequently by the NCRB”.
Data submitted by States is extensively verified/validated at various levels through the inbuilt checks in the software application. In case of discrepancy or inconsistency in the data, the same is referred back to the respective State for re-validation.
Published – February 11, 2025 09:40 pm IST