Gis for Rural Administrtion

Planners and decision-makers, have to depend upon spatial and aspatial data for effective planning and decis ion making. Hence, they need to have at their disposal a sophisticated data management system. Large volume of data is gathered whenever preparation of physical plan is taken up and a good number of maps as a part of the exercise on plan formulation are also prepared. The developments taking place in introduction of Information Technology as an operational tool have given chances for the availability of various software, GIS packages and computer databases in district Collectorates and major offices. Hence there is a need for an “Management Information System” to query and extract information from the GIS created, which should be capable of handling the massive aspatial data and spatial data, for taking decision for optimum utilization of available resources in the respective panchayat, townpanchayat, municipality or corporation. The main objectives of the study are creation of database on 1: 50000 scale for spatial and aspatial data and development of user interactive queryshell. Spatial database pertaining to natural resources were interpreted using IRS 1C LISS III imagery. Road/Railway network was taken from Survey of India toposheet. Administrative boundaries of district, taluk, panchayat villages were delineated using district, taluk and census village maps respectively. Aspatial data were collected from each panchayat village, town panchayat, municipality and corporation. The database pertains to the year 1998. Using ARCINFO workstation, maps were digitized. Aspatial data were fed using Microsoft Access 97. Customization was done using the modular design concept in ArcView application development environment to provide an easy interface for the user. The Model MISRP(Management Information System for Rural Planning) created can be used for any district of Tamil Nadu. The study was carried out in the following aspects ; (i)for identifying the villages that are satisfying the norms for JGSY (Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana) and selecting the particular village for development in each block. Salem district with its 386 panchayat villages, 32 town panchayats,3 municipalities and 1 corporation were taken; (ii)for generation of land resources action plan for existing landuse by using the CLDU (Composite Land Development Unit which is an integration of various natural resources), Kariyapatti town panchayat of Attur block in Salem district was chosen. Based on the user needs, queryshell and user interactive menus are designed in the MISRP model.