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Ministry at GP level. Survey data currently is also not giving make all of them aware of the awards and the questions and

GP level data. indicators that are being measured for the NPA. The NPA
guidelines provide for Data Collection with the Panchayat
Some Ministries have excellent data portals that collect real
Secretary as the key person to collect the concerned data/
time data as well as are using GIS and geotagging in various
information of respective appraisal year for online answering
asset based schemes. Wherever it can be used it should be. The
the questionnaires through National Panchayat Awards portal.
Committee had asked for this information, to also look at the
The line department functionaries/resource persons are also
layers that can be placed straight away and that which can be
identified by the States/UTs to facilitate the GPs for providing
developed. PMGSY covers rural roads, for connectivity from
the requisite data/information. The mentors/ resource persons
Gram panchayats, is available on GIS, and managed by the
identified at Block, District & State/UT are made responsible to
Rural Development Department. It is scheme works monitoring
ensure supply of requisite information/data to the GPs for
driven, and gives complete information on the works, including
answering the award questionnaires. Data from Ministries
the progress pictures and geotagging of the work sanctioned in
through API for that which is available is not yet in place for it.
the Gram Panchayat. However, to get Gram Panchayat level
LIF needs to be connected as feeder to the NPA.
data on it, it would require a slightly different approach
capturing the existing assets, and correlating different databases Data Sources
and visualizations already done. In this context it is worth
The Gram Panchayat is the place, it is its people, its prosperity,
mentioning that the same Rural Development Department
its various aspects covered under different schemes in its sphere
collects data through the MA Survey, and its visualization is yet
of coverage from where the data is collected. These are drawn
to be done in terms of assets. Currently, it looks at the score and
into different Ministries/Departments considering the nature of
works on the Traffic lights presentation of the score of the
their work, into various online/portals. This administrative
Panchayat. Hence the correlation that can be made between MA
programmatic data is what is now seen as the primary source
data as well as PMGSY data, within MoRD, and Gram
for data for the PDI indicators/data points. These have been
Manchitra in MoPR, as all collect this information in different
mapped to the extent possible in this Report.
parts and ways, would need to be explored for a systemic
integration. Mission Antyodaya as a source of data is to be drawn on where
there is no primary data source from the Ministry. MA is
basically a secondary data source and is being hence used as
such. In view of the existing link between MA and GPDP, the
use of MA for the data for LIF is also natural. The Ministry of
Panchayati Raj had taken up the inclusion of the LIF data to be
collected through MA and after multiple rounds of discussion
and processing, the revised MA now includes 157 indicators/
data points required for the LIF. It is worth noting that some
data points collected by MoPR in eGramSwaraj and other
portals of MoPR is also seperately collected in MA. There is
thus overlap between MA and the direct data from Ministries,
and as stated above, the Committee would recommend use of
the Ministry data as that is the primary source and use of the
MoPR has after adopting the approach of the 9 Themes has also
data from MA, where it is not available under the administrative
re-oriented the awards given at National level. It has also gone
data with the different Ministries concerned, and accordingly
for encouraging all GPs to apply for the award, in the bid to
the API needs to be set up.

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