Chemical
Department of Fertilizers ranked second in Niti Aayog's data preparedness survey
The survey was initiated with the objective of assessing data preparedness of ministries/departments on a standardized framework to drive healthy competition among them and promote cooperative peer learning from best practices.
- By Pravin Prashant
| October 03, 2020
The Department of Fertilizers under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has been ranked 2nd amongst the 16 Economic ministries/ departments and 3rd out of the 65 ministries/departments with a score 4.11 on a scale of 5 on Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI),
Niti Aayog has undertaken DGQI exercise for self-assessment based review of data preparedness levels across ministries/departments to produce a DGQI score card. Accordingly a survey was initiated with the objective of assessing data preparedness of ministries/departments on a standardized framework to drive healthy competition among them and promote cooperative peer learning from best practices.
In this survey, an online questionnaire was prepared under six major themes of DGQI: Data Generation; Data Quality; Use of Technology; Data Analysis, Use and Dissemination; Data Security and HR Capacity and Case Studies. Weightages were assigned to the themes and sub-weightages to each question within every theme to arrive at final DGQI scores ranging between 0 to 5 for every scheme.
The questionnaire was then shared with Ministries/Departments, which are implementing CS/CSS schemes. Inputs have been collected from 65 Ministries/Departments implementing 250 CS/CSS schemes and their scores were accordingly calculated.
Speaking about the initiative, Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said, "The effort of DMEO, Niti Aayog to bring out such a report card of the Ministries/Departments is highly appreciable. It will immensely help improve the implementation framework of government policies, schemes and programmes to achieve the desired goals."
The survey was conducted by Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), Niti Aayog to assess different ministries /departments' performance on the implementation of Central Sector Schemes and Centrally Sponsored Schemes. To avoid straight-forward irrelevant comparisons, Ministries/Departments were classified in six categories: Administrative, Strategic, Infrastructure, Social, Economic and Scientific.
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