Geospatial technology for mapping and analysis of social and infrastructural facilities at village level: a case study of Chinnapendyala village

摘要

With 70% of the population living in the villages, there is a need to improve the conditions in rural areas. Villages are in the same old state as the development activities are not reaching up to the micro-level. Lack of proper infrastructure facilities in villages are causing imbalances in the development and migration of the population. Sustainability at the village level can be achieved by a proper development plan which looks deep into the current status of the households in the villages and spatial variation of the demography. For such planning, there is a need for spatial information structure at the village level. GIS provides an environment to visualize and locate infrastructure facilities available in the village. The objective of the study is to collect all spatial and non-spatial data of the individual households of the village, put it into a common database using GIS and prepare maps that can be used by various government development bodies and policy-makers to plan effectively for the overall development of the village. A pilot study is done for the village Chinnapendyala of Jangaon District. The study demonstrates how GIS can be effectively used to map the social and economic conditions of individual households and infrastructure facilities in the village. Thirteen parameters are mapped for the village by conducting a door-to-door survey of each household present in the village.