New geospatial planning portal - "Yuktdhara"

The government has launched a new geospatial planning portal "Yuktdhara", that will help in facilitating new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system - based data.

The Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh launched a Geospatial Planning Portal under Bhuvan named “Yuktdhara” to enable the planning of new MGNREGA assets using Remote Sensing and GIS-based information. The portal has been jointly developed by ISRO and the Ministry of Rural Development.

About "Yuktdhara" :

1) Yuktdhara is a geospatial planning portal meant for facilitating Gram Panchayat level planning of MGNREGA activities across India.

2) The current level of integration under Yuktdhara, as part of Bhuvan, incorporates multi-temporal IRS satellite data of better than 3M detail in natural color, digital terrain, thematic layers as wed as locations of MGNREGA works and watershed management assets.

3) Portal integrates a wide variety of spatial information contents to enable a holistic approach towards planning using open-source GIS tool.

4) Yuktdhara is a culmination of joint efforts of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Ministry of Rural development made towards realising a G2G (Government-to-Government) service for rural planning in support of decentralised decision making.

5) Planners will be able to analyse previous assets under various schemes and facilitate the identification of new works using online tools. Prepared plans will be then evaluated by appropriate authorities under State Departments.

About Bhuvan Portal :

1) It is a type of web portal used to find and access geographic information (geospatial information) and associated geographic services (display, editing, analysis, etc.) via the Internet.

2) It shows the true borders of the country as per the information available from the Government of India.

3) It is well aligned with the government's Mission of Atmanirbhar Bharat.

About MGNREGA :-

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the right to work. This was passed in 23 August 2005.

It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.