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 ]
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 ]
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.
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 ]
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