Amplifi 2.0

The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched the Amplifi 2.0 (Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive and Future-ready urban India) portal.

Key points

• Through this portal the ministry is making raw data from Indian cities available on a single platform for academics, researchers, and stakeholders to help data-driven policy making.

• Currently, 225 urban local bodies (ULB) have been on-boarded, and data for 150 cities is available on the portal.

• The website provides data on a range of information for several cities, including, for example, the total diesel consumption; the number of samples tested for water quality; the average annual expenditure on healthcare; the total number of people residing in slums; the fatalities recorded due to road accidents.