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Abstract
In a developing country like India where 73 percentage of the population lives in rural areas and only 27 percentage in urban areas, we need a very structured planning procedure should be used for the development activities and infrastructure facilities available in rural area. Rural roads are integral part of rural development and it stimulates overall development by providing access to economic and social infrastructure and facilities. In order to avoid the problems associated with rural road development, it is advisable to prepare a rural road plan by building strong database, which consists of village level information and road inventory details. GIS supports multiple views of data and yet provide integration that would minimize redundancy and maintain data integrity and security. It allows concurrent access to multiple users and processing of user transactions in an efficient manner.

The case study was carried out for a community development block, which is a middle level spatial planning unit. For this purpose Rupauli block, in Purnia District of the Bihar State has been considered. The block maps were digitised and non-spatial data, prepared on MS-Excel, were incorporated to each of the villages. The Geographic Information System (GIS) has been used for planning of a rural road connectivity for a Community Development block and the information system was developed for villages and rural roads. This paper emphasises on the accessibility approach in an integrated manner so as to provide an optimum link to each village with maximum benefit in terms of accessibility to a major village with minimum construction cost.