PRAGATI- A low cost GIS based Decision Support System


Users of the Software
“PRAGATI” software has been installed and is successfully being used by District Planning Officers and District Statistical Officers of the state and others who are involved in decision-making.


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There have been three specific applications custom delivered which are briefly described here after. Several other users are preparing their databases for the same.

PRAGATI for planners:
The planners of district and taluka level like collectors, DDO, TDOS, have undauntable task of planning various national and state level rural development programmes, decide within the qualifying condition of various projects, satisfying the local needs. The software PRAGATI has been installed at the offices of all DPOs, Collectors, DDOs and other officers in the state. The response have been very good and because of the improved perception of this data the planning department has taken up the ardent task of developing very comprehensive database use and embolden the use of geospatial data in planning.

The Vidhansabha
After looking at the above version of PRAGATI the honorable speaker of Gujarat assembly demanded the PRAGATI based database built around the constituency instead of District/Talukas. This meant a spatial data layer showing information related to Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies. This customization was done within Four days and delivered.

The Pragati outputs are a part of the information kiosks put up in Vidhanshabha Bhavan.

PRAGATI Crime Mapping:
The home department insisted to have maps according to their Police station boundaries instead of Taluka boundaries. They wanted to map the data about various crimes, road accidents, communal riots, etc. occurring in the area as shown in


Fig 3: Crime mapping for Kheda Police 

The Future Domain Of “Pragati”
The present version of PRAGATI can be further enhanced, keeping in mind the needs of the users. Some possible enhancements have been enlisted below.
  • To support different projections.
  • To generate some components in the form of java beans. So user can customize his software with it.
  • To generate server-wise model so that number of users can use it simultaneously.
  • To make it web enabled.
  • To support other file formats.
  • To overlay satellite images in background.
Conclusion
The cost effective GIS solution at grass root level has been found to be very useful to the planners and decision makers. It has created self-reliance among a large number of people to use Spatial Information Technology for decision-making. The software developed is our modest attempt to facilitate the Decision Support System at grass root level.


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