INTEGRATED PANCHAYAT RESPONSE SYSTEM USING OPEN SOURCE GIS

Most of the villages in India are under developed and economically down trodden. The Lack of education and awareness of technology makes village people to think of traditional ways to solve any problem that leads to the failure of the Scheme/project. GIS is proved as a best tool in planning activities where geographic location is an important characteristic or critical to the analysis. Analysing the data is already done. Added to this, the real world planning problems can be visualized and all the complex problems can be solved. Spatial information on various resources in the Panchayat level is very critical for effective planning and action of any scheme. The wide range of capabilities like overlay analysis, suitability criteria ranking, spatial and non spatial queries made GIS as an inevitable technology in any planning activity and to arrive any conclusion. The reach of the GIS technology to the root level is restricted due to the high licensing cost of GIS softwares. Thus a low cost or cost free system is needed to make the technology to reach poor people. Here an attempt is made to make use of the open source technology at the Panchayat village level.