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aggregated to Block and District level plans. The involvement In sum, there is seen to be almost all of the requisite data for the
of the GP in the process of planning and in the access to data is use for & by Gram Panchayat at Gram Panchayat level, some
yet to be part of it on ground. The beauty in the school is the going down to hamlet, further to household and individual
detailed individual student wise data, including address, level as well. Only, is presently not seen. The process of
hamlet, Gram Panchayat, that are available in Registers, from fishing it out is a process of placing and using the relevant
which that which is to be entered as per the data entry portals tags and fields and currently most relevant being the LGD
are only entered. As in the Health Center, the School by code.
location is mapped, its area of service is also mapped, but
In the course of discussions with the Ministries, this LGD code
specific Gram Panchayat wise data is not readily available.
and provision of data required, had come up & the Department
However, the strong MIS systems of Health (HMIS) and School of School Education was also well prepared with the number of
Education (UDISE+) are having LGD Code seeding and the LGD codes to be provided by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj,
Gram Panchayat wise data can be fetched. for providing the Ministry of Panchayati Raj with the Gram

The Anganwadi Centres are even richer with age group wise Panchayat wise data, as available in UDISE+.
data of each household and cover a large number of
parameters, many of which are entered in the Poshan 2.0 Portal.
The MoWCD takes the data from the AWC to the level of
Anganwadi Supervisor for a cluster of villages/Gram
Panchayats. Again, here the LGD code and all details can be
accessed. The ASHA Worker, the closest correlated
functionary, and the AWW, both have the health data sets for
the Gram Panchayat and to individual details, though they are
not all currently accessible for Gram Panchayats.
How many of the indicators listed under the LIF, and data
points are already being collected in the various portals of the
Ministries/Departments, was asked by the Committee to be
identified in the MoPR. This needs to be carried forward in
MoPR. These indicators and data points that can directly
provide data at GP level is a process that needs to be taken up in
the first instance. Incidentally, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj,
as one of the steps in the process of Localisation of SDGs, has
had series of meetings with Ministries and Departments to draw
data from the Ministries, and on select LIF has also started
Interlinkages between different schemes can provide Gram getting through API data of individual beneficiaries in Gram
Panchayat data, where currently different or specific schematic Panchayats under schemes. This data is being brought into a
aspect is only seen. For eg: the link provided between HMIS & eGramSwaraj Portal of Ministry of Panchayati Raj. The
Ayushman Bharat which latter has each individual's residence Annexure-I, Table-22 gives the Indicators on which MoPR has
by Village (if rural), and former has the medical and health data started getting data at GP level from the Ministries.
by the Health Centre. This can lead to health data that is
This is a necessary exercise to be taken up so that not only is
presently not available, ordinarily. data already captured used, it also reduces the errors of re-entry
of same data, from the point of view of the Ministry/
Department. From the practical point of view, it will avoid

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