{"id":271465,"date":"2023-11-28T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=271465"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:31:48","slug":"amplifi-2-0-portal-urban-affairs-ministry-aims-to-provide-data-on-indian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/amplifi-2-0-portal-urban-affairs-ministry-aims-to-provide-data-on-indian-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplifi 2.0 Portal: Urban Affairs Ministry aims to provide data on Indian cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Amplifi 2.0 Portal: <\/b><b>Urban Affairs Ministry aims to provide data on Indian cities<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 25th November 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched Amplifi 2.0 portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is Amplifi 2.0 Portal?<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Specifications<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Details<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Launched by<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Full Form<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive and Future-Ready Urban India portal.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Aim<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make raw data from Indian cities available on a single platform for academics, researchers and stakeholders to help data-driven policy making.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Features<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The portal provides data on various services for several cities such as:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Total diesel consumption<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) Number of water quality samples tested<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) Average annual healthcare expenditure<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4) Total population residing in slums<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5) Recorded fatalities from road accidents<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Cities on board<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Currently, 258 urban local bodies have been onboarded and data for 150 cities is accessible on the platform.<br \/>\n2) Eventually, data from the more than 4,000 Urban Local Bodies will be made available on the portal.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What is Urban Outcomes Framework 2022?<\/h2>\n<p>1)<b> Released by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2) <b>Developed by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Institute of Urban Affairs and Ernst and Young<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) <\/span><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">develop a transparent and comprehensive database based on cross-city outcomes across 14 sectors.<br \/>\n&#8211; It aims to democratize data by making it accessible to all urban stakeholders in the Government, academia, citizenry, and industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4) <\/span><b>These 14 sectors are: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Demography, Economy, Education, Energy, Finance, Environment, Governance &amp; ICT, Health, Housing, Mobility, Planning, Safety and Security, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5) \u00a0It also encompasses\u00a0the <strong>third round of<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> four indices used to rank cities<\/strong> \u2014 the Ease of Living Index, Municipal Performance Index, Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework and Data Maturity Assessment Framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is the status of Urbanisation in India?<\/h2>\n<p>1) According to 2011 Census, 37.7 crore people (<strong>31% of population<\/strong>) lived in urban areas. By 2030, this is projected to increase in 60 crores or 40%.<\/p>\n<p>2) In 2011, urban areas <strong>contributed <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>63% to the country\u2019s GDP<\/strong> and this is projected to increase to 75% by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Initiatives in News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAmplifi 2.0 Portal: Urban Affairs Ministry aims to provide data on Indian cities\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 25th November 2023 Why in the News? The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched Amplifi 2.0 portal. What is Amplifi 2.0 Portal? Specifications Details Launched by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/amplifi-2-0-portal-urban-affairs-ministry-aims-to-provide-data-on-indian-cities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amplifi 2.0 Portal: Urban Affairs Ministry aims to provide data on Indian cities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1476,956],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-271465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factly","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":11,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701212282},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}