‘NITI Aayog to come up with combined report up to 6th edition of Water Management Index’
NITI Aayog will come up with a combined report from the third to sixth edition of the Composite Water Management Index even as it explores other channels to take the task of indexing to make the data and its analysis more holistic, ministry of state for planning Rao Inderjit Singh said.
Minister’s response to a question in Rajya Sabha comes as the Aayog has not been releasing the annual index since its second edition in 2019.
According to the minister’s response on Monday, NITI Aayog has been publishing the Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) since 2018.
So far two editions CWMI (June 2018) and CWMI 2.0 (August 2019) have been published. Subsequent edition of CWMI was prepared in August 2022 with delay due to the nationwide Covid-19 situation.
“After due deliberations with the concerned ministries and departments, the scope of CWMI was extended up to district levels, and to increase the data granularity, it was decided that data for some of the key performance indicators (KPIs) will be collected at district level. Therefore, it was ideated that a combined report of editions up to CWMI 6.0 should be released,” he said.
