‘NITI FOR STATES’
PLATFORM - GOVERNANCE
News: Minister of Communications,
Railways, and Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw to
launch NITI Aayog’s ‘NITI For States’ Platform
What's in the news?
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Recently, the Information Technology Minister
unveiled the NITI for States (NFS) digital platform to strengthen cooperation
between the Centre and states in achieving growth objectives.
NITI For States Platform
(NFS):
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It is a cross-sectoral knowledge platform designed
as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)
for policy and good governance.
Aim:
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It aims to integrate
data across states, centralising findings to inform future decisions by
state governments based on data-driven insights.
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While the platform will be accessible online to all
to help think-tanks, academia etc.
Goal:
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To enable
better policy making as a ‘one stop shop’ for officials down to local
levels to access robust, contextually relevant and actionable knowledge and
insights for quality decision making.
Objective:
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To facilitate the digital transformation of governance by providing robust,
contextually relevant and actionable knowledge and insights to government
officials.
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It will also support state-of-the-art level
functionaries such as District Collectors and Block-level functionaries by
providing access to innovative best practices in various States and Union
Territories.
Features:
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Repository - 7,500 best practices, 5,000 policy documents,
900+ datasets, 1,400 data profiles, and 350 NITI publications.
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Sectors Covered - Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health,
Livelihood, Manufacturing, MSME, Tourism, Urban, Water Resources and WASH.
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Cross-cutting Themes - Gender and climate change.
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Accessibility - User-friendly interface accessible through
multiple devices including mobile phones.
Other key takeaways:
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NFS includes curated training modules for government officials, focusing on enhancing
behavioural, functional, and domain knowledge.
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Helpdesks staffed by domain experts from the Aayog will
address queries from state officials.
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These skill
development modules align with the Integrated Government Online Training
(iGOT) Karmayogi platform.
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The platform incorporates real-time data updation and monitoring, spanning 10 sectors and two
cross-cutting themes.
NITI Aayog’s Role:
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NITI Aayog can play in guiding states towards
fulfilling their developmental objectives in consonance with the central
government’s growth.
Go back to basics:
Viksit Bharat Strategy
Room:
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It is an interactive space to view data, trends,
best practices and policies.
Features:
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Interaction - Voice-enabled AI and video conferencing with
multiple stakeholders.
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Plug-and-Play Model - Designed for replication by
states, districts and blocks.
● Collaborations - Various government organizations including iGOT Karmayogi, National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP), National e-Governance Division (NeGD), and Bhashini collaborated for multilingual support.