Central Idea

The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in India has taken a significant step towards fostering data-driven policymaking by launching the Amplifi 2.0 portal.

Amplifi 2.0 Portal

Amplifi 2.0 stands for Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive, and Future-Ready Urban India portal.
It was introduced by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
This platform aims to provide easy access to raw data from Indian cities, facilitating researchers, academics, and stakeholders in their efforts to formulate informed urban policies.
Currently, 258 urban local bodies have been onboarded, and data for 150 cities is accessible on the platform.
Objectives:

To make data from all 3,739 municipal corporations accessible through the portal.
Offer a wide range of data, including total consumption, water quality testing, healthcare expenditure, slum population statistics, and road accident fatalities.

Previously, the Ministry used data provided by civic bodies to rank cities based on four indices.
These indices encompassed ease-of-living, municipal performance, climate smart cities assessment, and data maturity assessment.
The government plans to release various reports based on subsets of these four indices, shifting towards a more data-centric approach.