- By introducing the Amplifi 2.0 platform, India’s Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has made an important step towards supporting data-driven policymaking.
Amplifi 2.0 Portal
- Amplifi 2.0 is an acronym that stands for Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive, and Future-Ready Urban India.
- The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs initiated it.
- This platform intends to make raw data from Indian cities more accessible to researchers, academics, and stakeholders in their attempts to develop informed urban policy.
- Currently, 258 urban local governments have joined the platform, and data for 150 cities is available.
- Objectives:
- Making data from all 3,739 municipal corporations available via the platform.
- Data sets include total consumption, water quality tests, healthcare cost, slum population figures, and traffic accident deaths.
Significance
- Previously, the Ministry ranked cities based on four indices based on data submitted by civic organisations.
- These indicators included ease-of-living, municipal performance, climate smart cities evaluation, and data maturity evaluation.
- The government intends to provide a number of reports based on subsets of these four indices, indicating a shift towards a more data-driven approach.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/urban-affairs-ministry-aims-to-provide-data-on-indian-cities-via-dedicated-portal/article67573273.ece