GIS based application for drinking water under sector reform pilot project
Lalan Kumar
Scientist, CMRI, Barwa Road, Dhanbad
Jharkhand, 826001 India
email :lalan_cmri@india.com
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Swetabh Kumar
Executive Engineer, PHED, Dhanbad -826001
Jharkhand, India
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D. D. Misra
Director, Central Mining Research Institute, Barwa Road
Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India – 826 001
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Abstract:
Governments are increasingly seeking greater effectiveness and efficiencies in the delivery of services to the citizen. This growing agenda to reform public services have provoked a shift to be more customer and output focused. This in turn has added another dimension to the requirement for change together with some changes in funding and the need to become more commercial. The initiative taken by the Govt. of India with regard to drinking water under Sector Reform Pilot Project running at different corner of the country.
Non-spatial data (such as village/tola/cluster population, sources of drinking water etc.) will be incorporated in the project. There will be system for adding data, deleting data, modifying data etc. from the above database. Based on the above spatial as well as non-spatial data, a Management Information System (MIS) based on the pattern of (GIS) has been developed for drinking water under Sector Reform Pilot Project.
At the same time technological innovation is enabling us to collect, integrate, store, manage, manipulate, enhance and distribute this information more and more effectively in hand with a growing customer requirement for real time data update.In the context of our state, deployment of such a tool is even more important since it can help plan better drinking water facility to the remote people and to predict the impact of water crisis well in advance, so that suitable steps can be taken to overcome this situation.