Centre inaugurates Urban Observatory for smart city ecosystem

To support recently launched Smart City strategy, Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs inaugurated Urban Observatory which will facilitate data-driven solution to address complex urban challenges.

New Delhi: Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday inaugurated the state-of-the-art India Urban Observatory in New Delhi.

The observatory will keep track on the various components of smart city ecosystem on real time basis.

"This observatory would progressively become the chief data analysis and management hub of the Ministry and would enable evidence based policy formulation, capacity building for ecosystem partners on data-driven governance, foster innovation through development of newer and better use thereby enabling solution at scale and speed," said Puri.

Highlighting his governments achievents in different sectors, Puri said that the India Urban Observatory is an important component of the recently launched Data Smart Cities strategy that envisions to create a 'Culture of Data' in cities, for intelligent use of data in addressing complex urban challenges.

The Union Minister had also inaugurated a Video Wall which will showcase the insights gained from the observatory and various missions and officers with the idea to proactively engage with citizens.