Karachi: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday launched a district development portal called ‘Data4Pakistan’ under the government’s Ehsaas programme, a news source reported. Further, the PM announced that his government was committed to eradicated poverty in the country.
Providing details on the portal, the PM said that the framework
would help in highlighting the exact data for each district; revealing it to be
a first-of-a-kind initiative in Pakistan that would facilitate the analyses of
poverty estimates and other development/policy indicators of each district.
According to details, the portal, developed in collaboration with the World Bank, currently provides data for the period between 2004 and 2018. It can be accessed from the ‘Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division’ section on the Ehsaas programme’s website.
The portal will also allow users to access interactive maps
to compare poverty and other indicators between two districts. The users will
be able to customise, download, and print these maps.
The data for the portal was provided by the Pakistan Bureau
of Statistics as a part of its Social and Living Standards Measurement Surveys
as well as the Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys.
