Chief Secretary bats for creating analytical tools on PMGS portal to ease governance

Jammu, Nov 22: Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo chaired a high-level meeting of all concerned Administrative Heads to review the status of data layers uploaded on the PM Gati Shakti (PMGS) Portal across J&K and to assess progress in leveraging the platform as a comprehensive decision-support system for holistic and evidence-based governance.

During the meeting, the Chief Secretary underscored the critical importance of developing innovative and user-oriented analytical tools on the PMGS portal to derive clear insights from the available datasets. He emphasized that accurate, granular and dynamic data is vital for informed policy formulation and efficient service delivery aimed at enhancing public welfare, said a press release.

He took this occasion to urge all departments to move beyond conventional data uploading and focus on meaningful analytical integration to strengthen planning and monitoring mechanisms. He called for accelerating the creation of polygonal data instead of mapping point data only.

The Chief Secretary directed the Planning, Development & Monitoring Department to take the lead in uploading detailed data layers concerning youth engagement across all districts of the UT. He called for comprehensive datasets covering skilling initiatives, employment trends, entrepreneurial activities, sports participation and educational indicators of youth to facilitate the formulation of targeted and impactful youth-centric policies.

He also called upon the Agriculture Production Department to consider integration of data relating to crop production, productivity indicators and animal husbandry statistics to enable data-driven agricultural planning and improved sectoral interventions. The Health Department was impressed upon to upload comprehensive health-related datasets, particularly concerning the prevalence of critical diseases such as anaemia and cancer across the UT.