The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is making raw data from Indian cities available on a single platform for academics, researchers, and stakeholders to help data-driven policy making. The Amplifi 2.0 (Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive and Future-ready urban India) portal was launched by the Ministry three weeks ago.
Currently, 258 urban local bodies (ULB) have been on-boarded, and data for 150 cities is available on the portal. “While onboarding the cities, we found that there is a lack of data maturity in cities, and thus only 150 ULBs were able to share their data. Following this, we sent data quality parameters to every city,” a senior official in the Urban Affairs Ministry said.
It is hoped that data from all 3,739 municipal corporations will eventually be made available on the portal.
