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Monitoring govt. schemes in real time
Why it is in news?
- In a bid to make data-driven decision making more than a mere buzzword, the Ministry of Rural Development launched the DISHA dashboard, a nifty tool that will make it easier to monitor governance by geography in real time.
- The application, which is now available to all members of Parliament and State Assemblies as well district officials, allows the user to track the progress of multiple and diverse schemes in a certain district, block, or even a gram panchayat.
- The application automatically turns sets of statistics and data into interactive and visually accessible graphics and maps.
- Currently, 18 schemes are covered; the ultimate plan is to integrate all 42 Central schemes — representing a total outlay of ₹3 lakh crore — which are already monitored by DISHA or District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committees.
About schemes
- Several schemes have good Management Information Systems, but they don’t talk to each other. So, it is difficult for elected representatives and local planners to go through all the data and get a sense of what is happening in a particular place.
- Currently, geographic mismatches make it difficult to unite data; for instance, while the Rural Development Ministry tracks its schemes by gram panchayat, the Health Ministry tracks it by anganwadis, which are mapped by population, while crime data uses different boundaries.
Source
The Hindu