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Table 6.3: List of data sources and been presented the Table of LIF Data Availability in
number of data points identified for LIF Field,
Sl.No. Area Number of Annexure-I, Table 15. Both these, need to be completed
in MoPR and with States as part of the further work in
Data Points
taking PDI to the field.
1. Forest 2 The data points to be collected from the 14 different
sources were, at the time data collection commenced,
2. Animal Husbandry 26
identified as 686. Through a couple of rounds, & some
3. Agriculture 23 time, this being the first time such an exercise has been
done, the Maharashtra Team, collected all the data. With a
4. Banking 4 revision to the LIF, the number of data points changed to
688, which were additionally collected seperately. These
5. Education 46 are from GP as data source. This is proof enough of the
fact that there is data available in the Gram Panchayat
6. Gram Panchayat 361
(most with the government agency responsible for the
7. Mahatma Gandhi NREGS 4 sector). So, from being limited by indicators that can be
obtained from Government data portals that have them
8. Health 68 available at Gram Panchayat level, we can get
administrative data that is available, from the same field
9. Home Affairs 29 source, which is only partly seen at Gram Panchayat
level,for which APIs are to be established, by the
10. Public Distribution System 9
Department/Ministry, considering that most Ministries
11. Revenue 28 had facility wise data, departmental functional structure
wise data, i.e. school level, Area supervisor level for all
12. Self Help Groups 8 schools in the designated area, Block Education Officer
and District Education Officer, for schools, similarly for
13. Water Supply 10 PHC/sub-centre having total service area data;

14. Women and Child 68
Development

Total 686

the country) or for Gram Panchayat data in terms of
household profile, infrastructure, finance etc. It was very
interesting to see that maximum data points (361), are to
be collected from the Gram Panchayat itself. This led to 3
data entry formats- GP 1, GP 2 & GP 3 for the
Maharashtra Team to collect the data. Consequently,
registers of the Gram Panchayat and data in the Gram
Panchayat can be fully correlated to eGramSwaraj, MA
survey and VPRP data collection to that already available
and balance to be collected without duplication and
furthering standardisation and data sharing. The
information on this that has been provided by Ministry of
Panchayati Raj to the Committee has been given in
Annexure-I Table-18, Table-21, Table-22 and Table-23.
Further, actual source and location of availability of Field
Data has been noted by the Maharashtra Team, and has

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