Showing posts with label Urban Statistics for Human Resource and Assessments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Statistics for Human Resource and Assessments. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Implementation of USHA Scheme

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is implementing the Central Scheme of ‘Urban Statistics for Human Resource and Assessments (USHA)’ which aims at the development and maintenance of national database, MIS and knowledge repository relating to urban poverty, slums, housing, construction and other urbanization-related statistics in line with the national emphasis of strengthening statistical base of policies and programmes. Its key objective is to support the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and other Ministries with an information base and knowledge inputs for the purpose of planning, policy-making, project design, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, particularly in the context of programmes relating to urban poverty, slums and housing.