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  • 24 February, 2021

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National Urban Digital Mission

National Urban Digital Mission

  • National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
  • NUDM will create a shared digital infrastructure for urban India by working across the three pillars of people, process, and platform to provide holistic support to cities and towns.
  • It will institutionalise a citizen-centric, principles-based and ecosystem-driven approach to urban governance and service delivery in 2022 cities by 2022, and across all cities and towns in India by 2024.
  • NUDM has articulated a set of governing principles, and inherits the technology design principles of the National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS), whose strategy and approach were released by MoHUA in 2019.
  • The principles give rise to standards, specifications, and certifications, across the three pillars of people, process, and platforms.

Source: TH


Anti-Defection Law in India

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Rat-Hole Mining

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India’s Aviation Sector

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Federalism in India

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India–UAE Economic Partnership

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