The Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik dedicated ‘Odisha Sampad’ a Web-based Block GIS Atlas developed by the Orissa Space Application Centre (ORSAC) to the people of the state on 4 January.
The objective of ‘Odisha Sampad’ is to provide datasets of all the 314 blocks (village-wise) of the state relating to natural resources, environment, infrastructure, socio-economic and demography. The information content has been built on the basis of satellite image interpretation, survey at the block level and maps of other departments and agencies. The web atlas contains information on natural resources like land, utilization distribution of wastelands, forest lands, agriculture area, plantation, settlement, waterbodies etc.
It also contains information on soil, slope, lithology, drainage, geomorphology, ground water potential, said an official. All the administrative bouridaries like state, block, GP, village, Assembly Constituencies, Parliament Constituency, Watershed, RF/PF boundary are available in the website. It also contains demographic and beneficiary information of each village, information on infrastructure like canal, road, rail network distribution, health and educational facilities, locational information on drinking water wells, banks, markets and telecommunication.
The most important aspect of Orissa Sampad is providing development related data to the common public. The people can know about the development activities completed and continuing in their village from the website. It will also help in proper planning of proposed development activities at village/GP level.
The datasets can be viewed by the public from ORSAC website www.orsac.org or from www.odishasampad.in. The second site is not yet up; displays an error. The website will soon be up I guess!
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