Union Minister of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj has launched the new portal under Bhuvan ‘Yuktdhara’, which will facilitate planning of new MGNREGA assets using Remote Sensing and GIS based information.
This platform will serve as a repository of assets (Geotags) created under various national rural development programmes i.e. MGNREGA, Integrated Watershed Management Programme, Per Drop More Crop and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana etc. along with field photographs.
It is definitely a culmination of untiring joint efforts of ISRO and Ministry of Rural development made towards realising a G2G service for rural planning in support of decentralized decision making. This portal integrates wide variety of thematic layers, multi-temporal high resolution earth observation data with analysis tools.
Thus, Yuktdhara based plans will be prepared by grassroot functionary and verified by appropriate authorities for relevance and resource allocation. This would ensure quality of plan and enable a long term monitoring of the assets created over the years.
ISRO’s Geoportal Bhuvan due to its rich information base, satellite images and analytical capabilities has become a de-facto geospatial platform for number of developmental planning activities in the country.