Dashboard monitoring to keep officials on toes

From armchair bureaucracy to on-ground administration

Warangal: A quick glance at various key indicators - from farmers’ loan waiver to Aasara pensions and what not - will soon be at the fingertips of the district collectors to monitor the real-time governance at the field level. Thanks to the District Dashboard Monitoring System (DDMS), a data visualisation tool that provides real-time status of welfare and development programmes of the region.Warangal Urban is one among the five districts in the State chosen by the government to implement the project on trial basis before making the Dashboard monitoring available to other districts. The initiative comes in the wake of the State government’s resolve to go for the real-time monitoring of all departments on a desktop view called Dashboard, similar to the one being used by Odisha and Andhra Pradesh governments.

This allows the administration to know the performance of each district and take definitive measures to speed up the development and welfare schemes.On the lines of the Chief Minister Office Real-time Executive (CORE) Dashboard, which is to be unveiled soon, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has also planned DDMS for each district. The application will have 70 indicators falling under 17 departments such as Revenue, Welfare, Agriculture, Education, Irrigation, Health and Family Welfare etc.The mandatory updation of each department’s activity every day allows the collectors for effective utilisation of resources and draw up an appropriate development plan.

It’s learnt that the government has sent trial format of the DDMS to the district collectors of Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Warangal Urban, Medak and Mahbubnagar.Based on the findings of the trial run, the government is likely to modify or change the application. Against this backdrop, Warangal Urban District Collector convened a meeting on Thursday to discuss about the initiative. It’s learnt that data of all the departments will be made available online in a couple of weeks.Speaking to The Hans India, Urban District Collector Amrapali Kata said: “The Dashboard, which displays relevant data and information arranged on a single screen, not only provides key incites of each department’s activity but also brings transparency in the functioning of the administration.”