The National Statistics Day is celebrated every year on June 29 in India to create public awareness about the importance of statistics in socio-economic planning and policy formulation. The day also acknowledges notable contribution of Late Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in fields of statistics, statistical system and economic planning.

In this regard, Department of Statistics, CHRIST (to be Deemed University), celebrated the National Statistics day on June 29, 2018 in the Central campus.  Dr. Vinod Kumar Murti, Country Head-India, Institute of Analytics, UK, chief guest of the day, presented a talk on “Career in Analytics” for 45 mins. He highlighted that Data analytics one of the critical jobs in 21st century and also emphasized the importance of statistical techniques for data analytics. Some important techniques of statistics, usage and applications were mentioned along with real life examples.