{"id":17829,"date":"2023-12-06T06:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17829"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:25:08","slug":"gram-manchitra-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gram-manchitra-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Gram Manchitra application"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Gram Manchitra application<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In order to encourage the\u00a0Spatial Planning by\u00a0the Gram Panchayat,\u00a0Ministry of Panchayati Raj had launched the Geographic Information System (GIS) application \u201cGram Manchitra\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This application facilitates and supports Gram Panchayats\u00a0to perform planning at Gram Panchayat\u00a0level using geo-spatial technology.<\/li>\n<li>It provides\u00a0a single\/ unified Geo Spatial platform to better visualize the various developmental works to be taken up across the different sectors and provide a decision support system for\u00a0Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP).<\/li>\n<li>Further, Ministry has\u00a0launched mActionSoft, a\u00a0mobile based solution to help in capturing photos with Geo-Tags (i.e. GPS Coordinates) for the works which have asset as an output.<\/li>\n<li>Geo-tagging of the assets is done in all three stages viz. (i) before start of the work, (ii) during the work and (iii) on completion of work.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This would provide a\u00a0repository of information on all works and assets related to natural resource management, water harvesting, drought proofing, sanitation, agriculture, check dams and irrigation channels etc.<\/li>\n<li>Assets geo-tagged using the m-ActionSoft application is available on Gram Manchitra, enhancing the visualization of various developmental works in the Gram Panchayats.<\/li>\n<li>The assets created under the finance commission funds are geotagged with the photographs of assets by the Panchayats.<\/li>\n<li>Significance\n<ul>\n<li>It will help Gram Panchayat officials\u00a0develop realistic and achievable development plans.<\/li>\n<li>These tools provide a decision support system in the preparation of development plans viz.\u00a0tools for identifying potential sites for development projects, asset tracking, estimating the costs of projects, and assessing the impact of projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Spatial planning?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an interdisciplinary field in the engineering and social sciences that deals with the spatial arrangement and development of living, working and environmental conditions at a wide range of spatial levels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1982637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Ministry of Panchayati Raj launched Geographic Information System application \u201cGram Manchitra\u201d to encourage the Spatial Planning by the Gram Panchayat<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gram Manchitra application facilitates and supports Gram Panchayats to perform planning at Gram Panchayat level using geo-spatial technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}