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‘AAINA Dashboard for Cities’ portal aims to create a robust database of key performance metrics of Urban Local Bodies

About AAINA Dashboard for Cities:

• AAINA – Dashboard for cities, an initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is being envisaged which would serve as a tool for comparing similarly placed Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and promoting peer learning amongst ULBs.
• This dashboard will inspire the ULBs by pointing to possibilities and areas of improvement and providing them the opportunity to learn and engage with frontrunners.
• It will provide information on the status and progress of the cities on five broad thematic areas viz.
• Political and Administrative Structure
• Finance
• Planning
• Citizen Centric Governance and
• Delivery of Basic Services.
• Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) can voluntarily submit their key data through a simple form on the portal.
• ULBs will submit audited accounts and performance metrics, which they can update when needed.
• The dashboard aims to be a permanent platform for ULB data, regularly updated for stakeholders and eventually open for public view.
• The Ministry, through the Digital India Corporation, will help ULBs/States with the data submission process.
• Currently, information about all the ULBs in the country isn’t available on one platform.
• The idea is to provide a platform for ULBs to learn from each other and also have critical data, which can be used in the future for planning new schemes and taking policy decisions