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Manoj Kumar, deputy director general, central zone office, Lucknow, spoke on the role of the NSO in the collection of these indices. Suchita Gupta, deputy director general, regional office, presented an overview of the key activities and concepts of the WPI, PPI and IIP surveys. Dilip Kumar Sinha, Deputy Director General, DPIIT, explained the basic framework and significance of WPI and PPI.
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