This is an effort to make use of the modern IT tools like GIS and WebGIS, for a holistic development planning at Panchayath level, based on the resource data and comprehensive watershed based development master plan
This has a special relavance, because:
The importance of watershed based planning for sustainable development has been widely accepted
Various departments and agencies supporting rural development programmes demand a local level watershed-based development master plan as a prerequisite
Many Govt. schemes available for local bodies like MGNREGS, Hariyali, WGDP, etc. also demand the same
Data regarding the available resources (both natural as well as man-made) are very much essential for effective, sustainable local level planning and watershed management.
Further, effective micro level planning and implementation requires not only the availability of microlevel database, but also the facility to capture/retrieve the required data, quickly and easily from the database.
Here, the Panchayath level resource maps and watershed based master plan, which have the plot/micro level resource data and action plans for soil and water conservation, improving agriculture productivity, livelihood support programmes and creation of other durable assets, have been ported in to a GIS environment and made avaialble in a WebGIS interface, for easy data retrieval and updating.
One can select a Panchayath for geo-visualisation from the right menu...
Presently only those Panchayaths, who have enroled for this project, have been included here. Other Panchayaths can contact the Project Team to setup the WebGIS database.
The entire work has been done using Free and Open Source GIS Software tools like GRASS, QGIS, Mapserver, PostgreSQL-PostGIS and Cartoweb on Debian GNU/Linux platform.