Telangana government will soon have digital dashboards customised to suit the requirements of district collectors and also for the heads of departments and secretaries at the State-level for real time review and evaluation of flagship programmes under various departments.
Many departments use technological tools like Tabs, smart phones to gather data and upload them into the online system. Departments like Agriculture, Irrigation, Woman and Child Development, Medical and Health and Family Welfare, Education, Housing, Metro Water Works and Sewerage, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Forest, Municipal Administration and Urban Development, Social Welfare routinely collect data pertaining to their respective programmes and projects.
Appreciating the use of technological tools extensively by the agriculture extension officers for distributing Rythu Bandhu cheques and enumeration of Pattadar farmers under the ongoing Rythu Bandhu insurance scheme, Chief Secretary S. K. Joshi recently sought a report on how other departments were gathering the data and using that data for effective implementation of government programmes.
Mr. Joshi said that there was a need for a dashboard to help the Collector study and access this data put out by various departments, identify the lacunae and take remedial measures on a day-to-day basis. The aggregate of all districts should be reflected in the State-level dashboard and help the secretaries to evaluate and review the programmes of their respective departments. Private consultants like KPMG and Centre for Good Governance developed softwares for the dashboards of some departments that are linked to the databases and for constantly updating the reports.
Technical Education Commissioner Navin Mittal was asked to take views of KPMG, CGG and secretaries of departments on how the dashboard should be designed for effective utilisation of data related to various departments and track the performance indicators related to flagship programmes. For instance, if the data related to malnutrition needs to be captured to bring down infant mortality rate in the State, one has to depend on the data provided by the Anganwadi workers on number of children coming to the centres in each district and their health parameters.
