An umbrella information portal collating official data on employment, industry, health, GST and trade is in the works, as the government plans to put out timely, credible and user-friendly official data through a single window.
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is developing a digital repository of all official statistics in the country, called the National Integrated Information Portal (NIIP), officials aware of the development said.
This is expected to improve transparency and make access to such data easier.
The move comes after questions were raised about the credibility of official data.
The NIIP will make information flow quicker to generate key macroeconomic indicators and feed into sustainable development goals. Data from ANMOL (National Health Mission), the HRD ministry’s Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE), corporate affairs ministry’s Corporate Data Management, labour and employment ministry’s Unified Shram Suvidha Portal and National Career Service, ICEGATE and Government e-Marketplace is likely to be part of the portal.
At present, this data is available on the websites of respective ministries that are not always updated on time.
The portal will provide a highend platform for data analytics and to interpret socio-economic data to the Centre, states and general public, the officials said.
“It will have a dashboard for socio-economic indicators to monitor the health and progress of the economy on a real-time basis and suggest leads for sector-specific interventions,” an official aware of the details said.
The development of NIIP will have three phases, starting with integrating all statistical activities of MoSPI followed by including key data sets available with other departments. In the third phase, data available in states will be on-boarded on the NIIP.
The ministry has floated a tender to hire an agency to develop the portal and to implement it in a phased manner for integrating statistical data from key ministries into the NIIP. The data will be made public in a standard, unified and harmonized format.
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