<h1>State leaders push use of administrative data and intergovernmental sharing for targeted services, raising governance and privacy compliance concerns</h1> State leadership advocated entrenched use of administrative data and intergovernmental statistical collaboration to enable targeted service delivery, transparency and evidence-based policymaking, citing national digital identity, direct benefit transfer and state family database initiatives as mechanisms for efficient implementation. The address called for institutional strengthening-local data dashboards, district statistical innovation labs-and competition among states for data accuracy. Legal issues implicated include data governance, accuracy accountability, intergovernmental data sharing, and privacy and security of beneficiary databases, all of which bear on compliance with applicable data protection, administrative law and public expenditure accountability frameworks.