Context:
The Minister of Communications, Railways, and Electronics & Information Technology will launch NITI Aayog’s NITI For States platform and Viksit Bharat Strategy Room’ at Rang Bhawan auditorium, New Delhi.
Relevance:
GS II: Government Policies and Interventions
Dimensions of the Article:
- About NITI For States’ Platform
- About ‘Viksit Bharat Strategy Room’
About NITI For States’ Platform
Objective: The platform serves as a cross-sectoral knowledge repository, aiming to establish itself as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for Policy and Good Governance.
Key Features:
- Comprehensive Repository: Hosts a live repository featuring 7,500 Best Practices, 5,000 Policy documents, 900+ datasets, 1,400 data profiles, and 350 NITI publications.
- Sectoral Coverage: Encompasses knowledge products across 10 sectors, including Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health, Livelihoods and Skilling, Manufacturing, MSME, Tourism, Urban, and Water resources & WASH. Two cross-cutting themes are Gender and Climate Change.
- User-Friendly Interface: Offers an intuitive and user-friendly interface for easy navigation, accessible through various devices, including mobile phones.
- Digital Transformation: Aims to facilitate the digital transformation of governance by providing government officials with robust, contextually relevant, and actionable knowledge and insights.
- Support for Functionaries: Supports functionaries at various levels, including district collectors and block-level functionaries, by granting access to innovative best practices from different States and Union Territories.
About ‘Viksit Bharat Strategy Room’
Interactive Data Visualization:
- A space designed for interactive visualization of data, trends, best practices, and policies.
- Enables users to make a holistic assessment of problem statements.
Features:
- Immersive Interaction: Allows users to interact through voice-enabled AI.
- Video Conferencing: Facilitates connection to multiple stakeholders through video conferencing.
- Plug-and-Play Model: Designed as a plug-and-play model for easy replication by states, districts, and blocks.
Collaborative Initiative:
- Various government organizations, including iGOT Karmayogi, NITI Aayog’s National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP), National E-Governance Division (NeGD), Bhashini for multi-lingual support, and PM Gatishakti BISAG-N team with DPIIT support, have collaborated in this initiative.
Integration:
- Integrates iGOT Karmayogi’s online training modules called “SAMARTH.”
- Incorporates NITI Aayog’s NDAP for access to government datasets.
- Leverages support from NeGD for developing the unique Viksit Bharat Strategy Room.
- Utilizes geospatial tools for Area-Based Planning with support from PM Gatishakti BISAG-N team and DPIIT.
