Context
The government launched a new geospatial planning portal, 'Yuktdhara', to facilitate new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system-based data.
About the Yuktdhara
- Developed by: Jointly developed by ISRO and the Ministry of Rural Development
- Yuktdhara will serve as a repository of assets (Geotags) created under various national rural development programmes such as
- Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)
- Integrated Watershed Management Programme
- Per Drop More Crop
- Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana etc.
- The new portal under Bhuvan 'Yuktdhara' will facilitate planning of new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and GIS (geographic information system)-based information.
- Yuktdhara portal would ensure-
- The quality of the plan
- Enable a long term monitoring of the assets created over the years for relevance
- Facilitate identification of new works for resource allocation
What is the main aim of MGNREGA?
- The mandate of the Act is to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
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Bhuvan Portal
- Previously launched, ISRO's Geoportal Bhuvan is presently a de-facto geospatial platform for several developmental planning activities across India.
- Bhuvan, is the national Geo-portal developed and hosted by ISRO comprising Geo Spatial Data, Services and Tools for Analysis. It has many versatile features
- Visualization of Satellite Imagery and Maps
- Analysis
- Free Data Download
- Download Reports to name a few
- A citizen-centric mobile application JANMANREGA has helped the rural population by providing feedback using Bhuvan services.
