SOURCE DATA AND OFFICIAL FACTSHEET
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation / National Statistical Office (MoSPI / NSO), Government of India. HCES 2023–24 Fact Sheet, Statement 4, printed page 8 (PDF page 9); Section I definitions on printed pages 3–4 (PDF pages 4–5).
Official factsheet: https://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/publication_reports/HCES%20FactSheet%202023-24.pdf

VERIFIED REUSE BASIS
Official MoSPI copyright policy: https://www.mospi.gov.in/CopyrightPolicy
The policy permits accurate reproduction and allows NSO/MoSPI Category A datasets to be accessed, reproduced, redistributed, adapted and reused for commercial or noncommercial purposes, subject to appropriate attribution and other applicable legal conditions. The source must be prominently acknowledged wherever the material is published or issued to others. This permission does not cover separately identified third-party copyright material; obtain authorization from its holder where applicable.

GSDD 2026: https://www.mospi.gov.in/uploads/acts_and_policies/acts_and_policies1778231030122_a1a3ee77-e36d-4895-8da5-b294751cbb1a_272304_(1).pdf
English printed page 13, clause A.3.1 expressly includes NSS reports and factsheets in open-access aggregated/analyzed Category A publications. Clause 5.7.1 provides Category A access free without registration. This published HCES factsheet table fits that explicit class; it is not Category B unit-level microdata or restricted Category C data. The applicable confidentiality/privacy and other legal conditions remain in force.

Official policy response SHA-256: ecf20f078cb3adf41f1d303cabfa91ce66d90d6ba8d11f013f09814583448852
Official GSDD 2026 PDF SHA-256: 6503121c5f7a08d0bf6a8b2ecf618a30c40b3b5a5d3dc53b3fc339fa434d32c8
Frozen HCES factsheet SHA-256: 31d4ce93ce9396b4042d226408b6d12e4be2006e0b716a0d63995d913b13f76e
The exact compact public-policy response was archived locally and independently reviewed; the GSDD PDF remains private evidence. No unrelated public-website application bundle is included in this package.

HANDLING AND CHANGES
Retain prominent MoSPI/NSO attribution, source links, table labels/footnotes, survey period, nominal monthly-per-person units and the distinction between ordinary in-kind valuation and additional specified free-welfare-item imputation. Published percentages and whole-rupee figures are retained without inventing more precision. Meplar selected the food and non-food subtotals for an original ₹100 composition graphic and retained all 24 source rows separately. The original factsheet PDF is unchanged in the offline reproduction package.

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