One Stop Shops ?

All of the following are, without doubt, welcome initiatives to improve

#    Ease of Doing Business

#    Ease of Governance [ e-Governance  ]

#    Ease of Regulatory Framework

#    Ease of Policy Formulation

But in this enthusiasm for a DIGITAL INDIA , are there following possibilities :

#    Duplication of same data in different databases , created / maintained by different

      Ministries ?

#    Different “values “ for same data in different databases ?

      [ Left hand not knowing what the Right hand is doing ? ]

#    Due to lack of a mechanism for AUTOMATIC UPDATION and across-the-board

      SYNCHRONIZATION of data, obsolete data leading to wrong decisions ?

Before all these portals ( with their respective DATABASES – DATA SOURCES – SEARCH ENGINES – USER INTERFACES etc ), go live, I urge PMO to appoint some third party outside agency ( eg : TCS – INFOSYS – L&T INFOTECH – WIPRO etc ), to study all of these proposals to ensure that the “ misgivings “ expressed by me above , are properly addressed

Context :

[ A ]

All-in-one digital repository of official data in the works

Extract :

Ø  The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation ( MoSPI ) is developing a digital repository of all official statistics in the country, called the National Integrated Information Portal (NIIP),

Ø  Data from,

     #  ANMOL (National Health Mission),

     #  HRD ministry’s Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE),

  

     #  Corporate affairs ministry’s Corporate Data Management,

     #  Labour and employment ministry’s Unified Shram Suvidha Portal

     #  National Career Service, ICEGATE

     #  Government e-Marketplace,

-      are likely to be part of the portal.

Ø  “It will have a dashboard for socio-economic indicators to monitor the health and progress of the economy on a real-time basis and suggest leads for sector-specific interventions,”

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[ B ]

NITI Aayog announces development of “ National Data and Analytics Platform “ for all government data 

Extract :

Ø  NITI Aayog is developing a National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) to serve a “one-stop platform for all published government data”, Rajiv Kumar, the vice chairman, announced. It will be built with the help of stakeholders and government bodies who work with big data. The first version of the NDAP is proposed to be released in 2021.

Ø  MediaNama has reached out to NITI Aayog and members of the technical advisory group, which has been established to govern the platform, to learn how the NDAP will be different from the Open Government Data (OGD) Platform maintained by MeitY. It seems as if the two platforms have significant overlap in areas such as use of a search engine, sources of data, social media sharing, visualisations, etc.

Ø  Apart from OGD, the NDAP will source data from websites of more than 50 ministries/departments of the central government, state governments “not exceeding 250 [sic]”, autonomous and affiliated bodies of the ministries of agriculture, education, finance and health, etc.

Ø  It appears that NDAP and OGD will have an overlap in data sources since the OGD portal has a huge corpus of data that will now be a part of NDAP

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[ C ]

Maintaining database: National Business Register on anvil

Extract :

Ø  India will come out with a National Statistical Business Register that will have data on all business enterprises in the country collated based on the results of the ongoing seventh economic census,

Ø  The register will have a district-wise list of all business enterprises and establishments engaged in production or distribution of goods or services, and it will be updated regularly using data from Goods and Services Tax Network, databases of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation, Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, and those with the corporate affairs ministry,

Ø  The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation ( MoSPI ) wants to put in place such a register to strengthen the assessment of economic activity by digitising enterprises’ data.

The register will have details such as the name of an enterprise, its location, activities, type of ownership, number of workers and PAN/TAN.

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[ D ]

Ease of doing business: New web-based form soon for incorporation of companies

Extract :

Ø  The Corporate Affairs Ministry plans to come up with a new form — SPICe Plus — for incorporation of companies

Ø  The new form will be an integrated web form offering multiple services (simultaneous registration) — name reservation, incorporation, Director Identification Number allotment, mandatory issue of PAN, TAN, EPFO, ESIC, Profession Tax (Maharashtra). It will also help in opening of a bank account.

   It will also facilitate allotment of GSTIN wherever it is applied for by the stakeholders.

Ø  The existing SPICe form is not web-based and could only be electronically uploaded.

Ø  Once SPICe Plus gets notified, all name reservations for new companies as well as new incorporations should be applied through it.

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Related Readings :

Unique ID for Every Enterprise ?                           [ 02 Feb 2018 ]

E - Governance ?                                                 [ 03 April 2014 ]

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25  Jan  2020

hcp@RecuitGuru.com