Amplifi 2.0

Amplifi 2.0 portal was launched to facilitate the process of achieving sustainable development by making data available on the crucial issues pertaining to development.

Amplifi – Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive and Future-ready urban India
It is a platform to provide raw data across 14 sectors for 440+ parameters for 250+ cities.
Launched by –Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Aim – To enable research, analysis, and evidence-based policymaking for government, citizens, academia and industry.
Coverage – Currently, 225 urban local bodies (ULB) have been on-boarded, and data for 150 cities is available on the portal.
Target – To cover data from more than 4,000 ULB.
Data collection – Through multiple assessment frameworks like
- Ease of Living Index (EOLI)
- Municipal Performance Index (MPI)
- Data Maturity Assessment Framework
- Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework
- Urban Outcomes Framework 2022
It covers range of information like average annual health expenditure, slum population among others.

Urban Outcomes Framework 2022

An initiative to develop a transparent and comprehensive database based on cross-city outcomes across 14 sectors.
Designed and developed by – National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA).
Aim – To democratise data by making it accessible to all urban stakeholders and providing opportunity to create new frameworks based on open data.
Significance – It shifts the focus from the indices to the data with a comprehensive list of indicators.
It streamlines the data to increase focus on data collection, and disaggregated data can be analysed by domain experts.

By 2030, India is projected to have 60 crore (40%) of the population living in urban areas compared to 37.7 crore (31%) in 2011. According to the 2011 Census, urban India contributed 63% to the country’s GDP, and this is projected to increase to 75% by 2030.

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