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Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to launch NITI Aayog’s ‘NITI For States’ platform on March 7

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will launch NITI Aayog’s ‘NITI For States’ platform on Thursday in New Delhi. A cross-sectoral knowledge platform, ‘NITI For States’, will serve as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for policy and good governance.

Significant features of the platform include a multi-sectoral live repository of 7,500 best practices, 5,000 policy documents, 900+ datasets, 1,400 data profiles, and 350 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, accessible through multiple devices including mobile phones, is intuitive and user-friendly.

It will facilitate the digital transformation of governance by equipping government officials with robust, contextually relevant, and actionable knowledge and insights, 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.

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