08.03.2024
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For Prelims: About NITI For States Platform, The significant features of the platform, What is the Viksit Bharat Strategy Room? |
Why in the news?
The Minister of Communications, Railways, and Electronics & Information Technology recently launched NITI Aayog’s NITI For States platform and Viksit Bharat Strategy Room.
About NITI For States Platform:
○A multi-sectoral live repository of Best Practices, Policy documents, datasets, data profiles and NITI publications.
○The knowledge products on the platform span 10 sectors including Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health, Livelihoods and Skilling, Manufacturing, MSME, Tourism, Urban, Water resources & WASH across two cross-cutting themes - Gender and Climate Change.
○The platform is an intuitive and user-friendly interface that allows users to easily navigate; and it is accessible through multiple devices including mobile phones.
○This platform will facilitate the digital transformation of governance by equipping government officials with robust, contextually relevant, and actionable knowledge and insights, thereby enhancing the quality of their decision-making.
○It will also support cutting-edge level functionaries like district collectors and block-level functionaries by giving them access to innovative best practices across various States and UTs.
What is the Viksit Bharat Strategy Room?
○It includes iGOT Karmayogi bringing online training modules called “SAMARTH” which can be accessed by the platform.
○NITI Aayog’s National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) has been integrated to give access to government data sets;
○National E-Governance Division (NeGD) has extended support to develop the first-of-its-kind Viksit Bharat Strategy Room while multi-lingual support has been provided by the Bhashini.
○PM Gatishakti BISAG-N team, with the support of DPIIT, has also been integrated providing for the geospatial tool for Area Based Planning.
Source: PIB