<span style="color: #222222;">The Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative "DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data".  <br />''<br />''The award was announced yesterday under the 'Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development' category.<br />''<br />''The DataSmart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities. It aims to harness the power of data for better governance in India's 100 Smart Cities.<br />''<br />''Digital India Awards presents an opportunity to bring to the fore digital initiatives being adopted to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.<br />''<br />''It is a prestigious National competition that seeks to encourage and honour innovative digital solutions by government entities in realising the Digital India vision.</span>