Gujarat CM launches Taluka Planning Atlas

Gandhinagar

Gujarat Chief Minister today launched ‘Taluka Planning Atlas’ in Gandhinagar. The atlas features complete profile of talukas. The atlas was launched in a meeting of collectors and district development officers in Gandhinagar. Leveraging GIS technology, the atlas will empower taluka level development and speed up rational decision making process, said Chief Minister. She also added that the atlas will improve transparency.

In initial phase, director, economics and statistics has prepared atlas of one taluka of each district and thus total 33 talukas are now having their atlas. Such atlas are made available over GSWAN for district, taluka and panchayat officials.

In a joint conference, all details on utilization of this online system are shared so that they can prepare village level atlas with details of 300 indicators.

It should be mentioned here that the task of gathering of details of 300 indicators was started in year 2010. As on 1st April 2014, the data was modernize and taluka level atlas was made.

Such atlas has 100 maps that provide details on all available facilities at village level such as primary school, secondary school, health centers, dairy, veterinary clinics, cold storage, drinking water, sanitation, electrification, residents, post offices, banks, higher secondary schools, hospitals, distance of such facilities from any village etc.

The system has scope for further updates of details which would further strengthen the decision makers at taluka and district level. They will be able to use same indicators to get village level map.

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