Bhubaneswar,9th April 2025(Kalinga Voice): A Meeting on findings of Data Capabilities Assessment by Data, Policy, and Innovation Centre (DPIC) was held under the chairmanship of Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary to Government Smt. Anu Garg,IAS at Lokseva Bhawan Conference Hall on 8th April 2025, Tuesday.
At the outset, Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary to Government highlighted the importance of Data for governance and evidence based policy making. She emphasized the need for adoption of state-of-the art technology in collection, analysis and dissemination of administrative Data and also use of advanced analytics tools for decision making. She also laid stress on strengthening Data Governancesystem in all departments through a common and standardized protocol.
Principal Secretary, E&IT Department Shri Vishal Kumar Dev, Commissioner-cum-Secretary , HE Department ShriAravindAgrawal, Director, Special Projects, PR&DW Department ShriJyotiPrakash Das , Senior officers of different departments of Government of Odisha and functionaries of DPIC were present and participated in the discussion.
The quick assessment made by DPIC covering the capability of departments in data management, data analytics and areas for improving capabilities was presented by Ms UrmilaChatterjeeof DPIC. Issues relating to data sharing between departments, access security, storage, backup and data quality were discussed.
The need for robust and secure hosting infrastructure, backups, disaster recovery protocols, use of standardized formats and interoperability across systems and departments were highlighted in the presentation. The requirement of quality data analytics tools to be handled by departmental officers for performance tracking, forecasting and informed decision making was also emphasized.
Partnership with academic, scientific and research institutions to provide insights on interoperability, protection of privacy and hands on training by DPIC on data analytics to officers of the departments was proposed in the meeting.
It was agreed upon that transformation of Data is essential for Good Governance. Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary advised DPIC to present the finding of the study on the Data Management and Analytics capability of the government departments with identified areas for improvement and capacity building in next All Secretaries Meeting.
