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Tata Trusts, the charitable organisation that owns or controls two-thirds equity of Tata Sons, has started a programme to build data capabilities of Indian cities to help arrive at evidence-based decision making by accurately measuring a city’s social, economic and environmental performance. The programme, which is called The City Data India Initiative, starts with Surat, Jamshedpur and Pune. “It has become clear that we are now giving the cities true strength by working on data and recognising the importance of data,” Tata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata said. Tata Trusts has tied up with World Council on city data to support and enhance the effectiveness of Indian government’s flagship urban development programmes, it said in a statement. The government programmes that will benefit from Tata Trusts’ new initiative are Smart Cities Mission and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation.
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