YUKTDHARA

• Recently, the Ministry of Rural development has launched a new geospatial planning portal, ‘Yuktdhara’ to help in facilitating the new MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) assets with the use of remote sensing and GIS (Geographic Information System) based information.
• It is a new portal under ‘Bhuvan’.

Important points:

• It 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.
• Previously launched, ISRO’s Geoportal Bhuvan is presently a de-facto geospatial platform for several developmental planning activities across India.
• It will serve as a repository of assets (geotags) created under the various National Rural Development Programmes, such as MGNREGA, Per Drop More Crop Programmes, Integrated Watershed Management Programme It will integrate a wide variety of thematic layers, multi-temporal high-resolution earth observation data with the analysis tool.
• 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.

Bhuvan Portal:

• 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.
• It shows the true borders of the country as per the information available from the Government of India.
• By using MapmyIndia maps and applications instead of the foreign map apps, users can better protect their privacy.
• It is well aligned with the government’s Mission of Atmanirbhar Bharat.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT