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Call for database for policy making

New Delhi, Sept 18

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Ms Kumari Selja, on Monday emphasised the need for creation of a strong database and management information system (MIS) on urban poverty, slums, housing, construction and other urbanisation-related statistics for effective policy making. The Minister was inaugurating national consultation on `Database and MIS on urban poverty, slums and housing' here. The Minister also released the guidelines for a new plan scheme "Urban statistics for HR and assessments" and user manual for Building Related Information And Knowledge Systems (BRIKS), in the presence of Mr G.K. Vasan, Union Minister of State for Statistics & Programme Implementation, Prof. Suresh Tendulkar, Chairman, National Statistical Commission, and Dr H.S. Anand, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. - Our Bureau

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