DEVELOPMENT OF PANCHYAT RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM IN HIMACHAL PRADESH USING GEO-INFORMATICS

摘要

The process and practice of planning are getting decentralized to lower area units to make them area specific and responsive to needs of local people. The XIth five year plan (2007-12) lays emphasizes on drawing up of development plans by grass root Institutions, capacity building of these institutions and requirement of sharing developmental information with the beneficiaries. The Gram Panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System and it is extremely important to empower Gram Panchayat in terms of resource database creation and use of the same for better future. The present day planning is mainly dependent on the non-spatial and secondary information. Spatial information of the available resources is a pre-requisite for developing grass root level developmental plans, attaining the goals and for the time bound completion of the developmental-plans. A new wave of technological innovation is allowing us to capture, store, process and display an unprecedented amount of spatial information about natural resources and infrastructure development. Geospatial Resource Information System is designed for the identification and mapping of the local resources spatially and understanding the problems and potentialities of each resource. It provides the basic details in GIS format which serves as a base for planning the development activities of the Departments like Planning, Agriculture. Soil Survey. Soil Conservation, Irrigation, Ground water. Rural Development etc. Geospatial plan helps in upkeep of existing infrastructure, identifying gaps in the existing facilities and planning establishment of an asset based on geospatial analysis of various variables including terrain, topography, action plan generation for rural development works, check duplicity of works, measure and monitor distribution of beneficiaries and regional and sub-regional imbalances