The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) along with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) to improve urban connectivity that will connect nearly 2,535 cities. Other initiatives such as India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX), SmartCode platform, Smart Cities 2.0 website, and Geospatial Management Information System (GMIS) were also launched by MoHUA.
NUDM aims to build the shared digital infrastructure for urban India, working across the three pillars of people, process, and platform to provide holistic support to cities and towns. It will institutionalise a citizen-centric and ecosystem-driven approach to urban governance and service delivery in cities by 2022 and across all cities and towns in India by 2024.
Objectives of NUDM:
> To catalyse an urban national open digital ecosystem (uNODE) that leverages NUDM build new platforms, solutions and innovations.
> To create open standards and enforce the adoption of open standards by all national digital urban stakeholders.
> To establish registries at appropriate levels to create single source of truth in respect of urban assets, service delivery, urban data and actors.
> To promote the development of nationally scalable application systems with a special focus on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for urban.
> To adopt the best principles of cooperative federalism while working with the States, Union Territories and ULBs for the realization of the vision.
> To provide for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of governance at all levels.