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The purpose of it was to find out what makes people of MP happy so that the same questions could be asked in the final survey for calculating the happiness index.Officials are unsure when the final survey would be conducted and happiness index will be developed.The state government officials said the format and questions to be asked for happiness index has been almost finalised. BHOPAL: A year after signing of an MoU between the state government’s department of happiness and IIT Kharagpur regarding development of a happiness index, even the procedure on how the survey would be conducted is yet to be finalised. “IIT Kharagpur has finalised it and will send it to the MP government this month after which the work of carrying out the survey to make the happiness index would proceed,” said director of Rajya Anand Sansthan Praveen Gangrade However, once the format is fixed, the survey volunteers would be appointed and their training will be conducted on how to carry out the survey in entire MP, before starting the survey. The objective of that workshop was to figure out the criteria, sample size of survey, its methodology, indicators, number of questions to be asked and whether it will be subjective or in yes or no format.The experts from IIT Kharagpur were supposed to finalise the details of survey and send it to the happiness department. In September last year, the government did a small survey and quizzed about 2,000 people on what makes them happy..