Ashwini Vaishnav launches NITI Aayog's ‘NITI For States’ Platform

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Ashwini Vaishnav launches NITI Aayog's ‘NITI For States’ Platform

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Minister Ashwini Vaishnav launched 'Policy for States Platform' at Rang Bhawan Auditorium, New Delhi. NITI Aayog's 'NITI for States' platform is a cross-sectoral knowledge platform. Ashwini Vaishnav is currently the Union Minister for Communications, Railways and Electronics and Information Technology.

It is designed to create digital public infrastructure (DPI) for policy and good governance.

Launch of ‘Viksit Bharat Strategy Room’:

Before the launch of this platform, Ashwini Vaishnav also launched the ‘Viksit Bharat Strategy Room’ in NITI Aayog.
This would enable rich visibility and engagement with insights, information and knowledge to enable personalized decision making.

Features of ‘NITI for States Platform’:

Important features of the platform cover a number of topics. Which can be seen in the following points:
- A live repository of 7,500 best practices and 5,000 policy documents,
- Over 900 datasets,
- 1,400 data profiles and 350 policy publications.
The platform covers agriculture, education, livelihood, manufacturing, MSMEs, tourism, urban, and water resources.
It includes knowledge products from 10 areas including the World Health Organization's WASH strategy. Which are based on two cross-cutting topics ‘gender and climate change’.
This platform has an intuitive and user-friendly interface. It allows users to navigate easily.
Accessible via various devices, including mobile phones.

Benefits of NITI for States Platform:

The ‘Policy for States Platform’ will provide robust, adaptive and actionable knowledge to facilitate the digital transformation of governance for government officials. Enhancing their decision-making process.
It would benefit District Collectors by providing access to innovative best practices in different States and Union Territories. It will also benefit advanced level functionaries like block-level functionaries.

About ‘Viksit Bharat Strategy Room’:

The ‘Viksit Bharat Strategy Room’ is an interactive space. Where users would be able to view data, trends, best practices and policies in an in-depth manner. This would allow them to make a holistic assessment of any problem.
It allows the user to interact through voice-enabled AI and connect with multiple stakeholders through video conferencing.
It has been designed as a plug-and-play model to enable replication by states, districts and blocks.

Other facts related to NITI for States Platform:

Various government organizations have cooperated in this initiative of NITI Aayog.
In this, iGOT Karmayogi is bringing an online training module called “Samarth” which can be accessed through the platform.
NITI Aayog's National Data and Analytics Platform integrated for government dataset access.
National e-Governance Division (NeGD) has provided support to develop the first of its kind Developing India Strategy Cell. While multilingual support is provided by Bhashini.
The PM Gatishakti BISAG-N team in collaboration with DPIIT has also been integrated to provide geospatial tools for area based planning.