New Age Technology and Geospatial Data Adoption in Rural Areas to Solve Inefficiencies in Implementation of Welfare Schemes
H P Manoj · 2022
Technology has developed rapidly in the past few decades, yet there is a lacuna in using new technologies for rural development. In this paper, the Author wants to review the existing methods of implementation of Government Welfare Schemes by taking Udigala Gram Panchayat of Chamarajanagar District in Karnataka as the study area and model a smart Action plan for the area using the Web and Geospatial Technologies. The geographical Information System can play an important role in helping the Village Administration in the implementation of Poverty Alleviation schemes and other schemes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Spatial Analysis can help a in solving few of the deeply entrenched problems in administrative setups. The Paper will also look at how the integration of GIS and Web Technologies can help in deciding the building of the required infrastructure required for the development of the Area and it will also look at proposing a way to solve the problem of identification of beneficiaries for target implementation of schemes. The paper will also suggest issues and problems regarding the usage of Geospatial data. The higher administration generally is not aware of the local resources and infrastructure needed in the village. A pool of projects will be created for the Village under study taking into aspect different data.