Context:
National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) would have new modules such as online booking of community centres and registration of properties.
National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM):
- Objective – Create a shared digital infrastructure for urban India.
- Mission – Institutionalize a citizen-centric and ecosystem-driven approach to urban governance and service delivery across all cities and towns in India by 2024.
- Launched by – Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) along with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).
- Help in supplementing Digital India initiative along with Smart Cities Mission.
- Significance –
- Integrates various digital initiatives of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
- Provides holistic and diverse support tailored to local needs and challenges.
- Inherits technology design principles from the National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS).
Similar digital initiatives of MoHUA:
- India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) –
- An Open-source, secure, and authenticated data exchange platform.
- Developed in partnership with IISc, Bengaluru.
- Function – Serves as an interface for data sharing among Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and other stakeholders.
- SmartCode Platform –
- Purpose – Serves as a repository of open-source code for urban governance solutions.
- Benefit – Helps ULBs customize existing codes to local needs, reducing the need for new solutions.
- Geospatial Management Information System (GMIS) –
- Web-based, spatially-enabled management system.
- Function – Integrates information from multiple sources with search options by topic and geographic area.
Source: The Hindu
Previous Year Question
Consider the following:
1. AarogyaSetu
2. CoWIN
3. DigiLocker
4. DIKSHA
Which of the above are built on top of open-source digital platforms?
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2022 Prelims]
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2, 3 and 4 only
(c) 1, 3 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: (d)
