Yuktdhara Geospatial Planning Portal

Yuktdhara is a geospatial planning portal meant for facilitating Gram Panchayat level planning of MGNREGA activities across India. Portal integrates a wide variety of spatial information contents to enable a holistic approach towards planning using open-source GIS tools. Subsequent to pan Indian initiative of geo-tagging assets created under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, harnessing the strength of GIS for identifying upcoming activities and their locations was a natural corollary. Its need was felt strongly across all the stakeholders. Department of Rural Development (DoRD), MoRD has left no stone unturned in emphasizing the need for geospatial approach in planning, through pilot level capacity building and handholding for state functionaries.

Current level of integration under Yuktdhara, as part of Bhuvan, incorporates multi-temporal IRS satellite data of better than 3 M detail in natural color, digital terrain, thematic layers as well as locations of MGNREGA works and watershed management assets. Open-source technologies have enabled customized visualization and spatial analysis of decision layers online in Yuktdhara. Wide-ranging national level legacy spatial datasets prepared by NSC, such as Land Use Land Cover (LULC), Roads, and Streams at 1:10,000 scale along with Groundwater prospecting, Geomorphology, Wastelands, Land degradation at 1:50,000 scale, strengthen the planning approach.

Extant boundaries of Gram Panchayats as well as related administrative units facilitate specific area analyses.

Interface currently has Gram Panchayat specific login to address planning as well as approval mechanisms intended to ensure the evaluation and acceptance of proposed activities. This will be enhanced for other levels of users gradually. Portal moves through familiarization of GP being handled, choosing desired work category, spatial analysis, and identification for the asset, to submission for approval, approval of activities till ingesting into NREGASoft. Latter tools such as linkage to NREGASoft, approval are in advanced stages of development and will be released soon.

Functionary teams may attempt trial planning runs on this portal, wherever login access is shared. Access for other Gram Panchayat will be facilitated at the earliest, by addressing the case multiple logins created for geotagging and moderation.