India’s Data Imperative: The Pivot Towards Quality

Summary

India's rapidly expanding digital public infrastructure, exemplified by UPI and Aadhaar, faces the challenge of ensuring high data quality amidst massive scale. Errors in data lead to significant fiscal leakage, misguided policies, and erosion of public trust. The NITI Aayog proposes a national pivot towards data quality, providing tools and frameworks to help government departments assess and improve their data, aiming to foster a culture of precision and trustworthiness as a foundation for effective digital governance.

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