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"Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is

impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government."

~ Ryan Shapiro

Development in the context of Gram Panchayats, is complex their set of KPIs and supportive aspects seen and monitored at
and cover many economic social and environmental aspects different levels. This voluminous data is only to a minuscule
managed and implemented through various departments extent, made available and less still utilized by Panchayats
through multiple schemes, in addition to what is influenced by during planning exercise. Since the purpose of planning for the
the people and the GP, and other external players (NGOs, GPs is for their achieving of Sustainable Development Goals
Institutions, Agencies etc), operating in the Panchayats. In the (SDGs) seen through the prism of Themes, a number of
wake of thematic approach to Gram panchayat Development indicators have been developed to provide a reliable picture of
Plan (GPDP), data pertaining to different thematic areas is very development across the thematic areas at Panchayat level.
crucial for the Gram Panchayats. Different line departments Localization of SDGs need and generate lot of transactional
operating at Panchayats level are in control of most of the funds data which is captured as various data points, from which
and programmes that flow, and work with large raw datasets relevant Indicators value is arrived at, which is presented in
collected over time under various schemes, used by the multiple analytical ways to the Gram Panchayats, and also
Departments for the purposes of monitoring the schemes as per

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