Ahsan for developing dashboards to monitor economic activities daily.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday directed Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and Ministry of Information and Technology to develop a dashboard in order to monitor the daily activities of the economy in the country.

It would help to promote the innovative projects of national importance under the Innovation Support Fund (ISF), to be launched soon.

The Minister made these directions while chairing a meeting for the development of the National Integrated Dashboard and ISF at the Ministry. The meeting was attended by the Secretary Planning Commission, Additional Secretary, Members and representatives from various ministries.

There is no integrated dashboard where economic management could be monitored particularly of key ministries like Finance, said the minister.

He also directed the concerned ministries and PBS to develop a dashboard so on a daily basis the economic situation of the country could be monitored which will help the policymakers to make a policy.

The Minister said that data is the key in the current era and there should be a dashboard at two levels, one for top leadership and second for the secretary's level so every ministry could monitor the economic indicators. There is a bulk of data hidden in the government's department but we should have a system to utilize it, said the Minister while stressing the official for a System Analyst to work on dashboard...