Mapping experiments in anUnsurveyed land -
An #OpenGeoData Initiative forRights to information at
Koorachundu Village Panchayat.
- Jaisen Nedumpala(Assistant Secretary, Koorachundu Village Panchayat;
Member of Executive Committee, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing; Member, Wikimedia India Chapter)
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Village Panchayat Profile Kozhikode Dist. - Balussery Block.
87.98 KM 2s.
Wards 13 nos.
Assembly Constituency : Balussery
Parliament Constituency: Kozhikode
Most of the areas remain unsurveyed.
Revenue Villages - Koorachundu, Chakkittapara, Kayanna (Koyilandy Taluk) and Kanthalad (Thamarassery Taluk).
Forest - Pervannamuzhi Range, Malabar WLS. KSEB - Kuttiyadi Hydroelectric Project (Kakkayam Dam and
reservoir) . Irrigation – Kuttiyadi Irrigation Project – Peruvannamuzhi
Reservoir .
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Integral Institutions
1 Krishi Bhavan – Koorachundu
2 Veterinary Dispensary
– Koorachundu
3 Veterinary Sub Centre
– Kariyathumpara
4 Primary Heath Centre - Kakkayam
5 Family Welfare Centre - Mandoppara
6 Family Welfare Centre - Keloth vayal
7 Family Welfare Centre - Kallanode
8 Family Welfare Centre
– Kattulla mala
9 Ayurveda dispensary – Koorachundu
10 Homeo Dispensary (NRHM)– Koorachundu
11 KHEP Govt. L P School – Kakkayam
12 ICDS Supervisor and 19 Anganwadi
– Centres
13 LSGD Section (Koorachundu/Kottur)
14 Village Extension Officers for
– Koorachundu and Kallanode circles
15 Koorachund Village Panchayat
– Kudumbasree Community
Development Society
16 Koorachundu Village Panchayat
– Literacy Mission
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Income & Expenditure
Own Fund Receipts2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15
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OutlayExpenditure
1995-96 2003-04 2014-150
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20,00,000
30,00,000
40,00,000
Total amounts Received
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Details of Own Fund 2014-15Property TaxPro fession taxOther TaxesPFA l icen se feeD&O l icense feeBuild in g permit feeBuild in g f itness feeB irth and Death Reg istrat ion FeeMarriage R eg istrat ion Fee
Details of Plan Fund received
1996-97 2003-04 2008-09 2014-150
1,00,00,000
2,00,00,000
3,00,00,000
4,00,00,000
5,00,00,000
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Details of Plan Fund 1996-97Untied fund
Basic tax g ran t
Establ ishment g rand
Minor irr igat ion
Vil lage road Main ten an ce g ran t
Vehicle taxComprehensive g ran t
Special Gran t
Other g ran ts An d don at ions
Other rece ipts From governmen t
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Details of Plan Fund 2014-15Dev e lopment fund(gen eral )
Deve lopmen t fun d(SCP)
Dev e lopment fund(TSP )
Main tenance g ran t ( road)
Main ten an ce gran t (n on road)
13th FinanceCommission Gran t
World Ban k Assistance
Gen eral PurposeGran t
MGNR EGS fund Funds rece ivedFrom department
Fun d – OldAge pension
Fund- Window Pension
Fun d – Spinsters Above 50 years Pen sion
Fund -DisabledPension
Fun d -AgricultureLabourers Pen sion
Marriage Assistan ce
Unemploymen tAl lowances
Child we lfare
MLA fun d MP fund
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Projects – Sector wise 2014-15
Sl. No. Sectors No. of projects
Funds
Outlay Expenditure
1 Production (General) 8 46,69,975 18,49,718
2 Service (General) 51 4,49,89,621 1,28,33,903
3Infrastructure (general) 98
2,00,87,428 1,12,87,849
4 Service (SCP) 17 1,35,46,076 27,82,584
5 Infrastructure (SCP) 1 2,00,000 1,95,128
6 Service(TSP) 5 26,96,795 1,94,600
Total 180 8,61,89,895 2,91,43,782
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Major focus areas of Panchayat
Developing Basic Infrastructure,
Providing drinking water by implementing
Drinking Water Supply Schemes, and
Provide housing to the homeless.
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Introduction
We have seen different categories of funds village panchayat receive.
But they are not unconditional.
Utilising them are strictly controlled by the
government through numerous directions like
Guidelines /Orders /Circulars etc.
Some directions are directionless?
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Responsibilities Citizen have right to Information to have the basic details
about their surroundings in an authentic fashion. Local governments - Custodians of Asset registers
The details of basic infrastructure - road networks and other public facilities.
First respondents in case of any hazards , in practical sense.
Requirement by RTI Act - 2005 Sections 4(1), 4(2), 4(3) , 4(4) : Local governments - public authorities Responsible for maintaining their records duly catalogued
and indexed, Responsible to provide as much information suo
motu to the public through various means of communications, including internet.
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Contradictions Essence of the definition of E-Governance by UNESCO
Encourage Citizen Participation in Governance . Central govt guidelines – GIS to be applied.
Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects , 2008 – Use current trends & advances in IT & Remote Sensing, Technology inputs - GIS.
Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana Guidelines – Assets to be mapped using GIS.
But village panchayats can't formulate GIS projects Vide Govt. Circular No: 71639/IB1/2012/LSGD dated
11/3/2013 - Enforces restrictions over individual software development activities of the LSGIs of Kerala,
Vide Govt. Circular No:1942/D.C.2/2013/LSGD dated 13/12/2013 - Prohibits village panchayats from formulating projects to develop a custom GIS.
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#OpenGeoData
Koorachundu Village Panchayat - State of Affairs – No Resource Map, No Cadastral Map,
No GIS. But pops up several instances to draw maps :
Kasturirangan report, Ward delimitation, Sevagram Gramakendram etc.
Need baseline GeoData for Developmental Planning and Implementation and to empower the stakeholders . Need of OpenGeoData in case of Emergencies - without
hassle. It is easy to draw maps from the layers of GIS , when in need. If there is commonly accessible repository of OpenGeoData ,
people can access the data when they need, without any formal requests to the village panchayat, satisfying the responsibil ity imposed by RTI Act .
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Objectives
Develop the different layers of vil lage panchayat level OpenGeoData , with community participation to suit the needs of suo-motu dissemination of spatial information to encourage and enable the effective citizen participation in the decision-making process.
Ensure that this necessary spatial information can be
accessed with the attribute data in local /
regional language.
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Implementation Strategy
Administrative• Don't formulate a formal project (Ref:
Circulars mentioned before).• Make use of the government circulars/ orders/
guidelines to draw any kind of map to enhance that level of existing base of OpenGeoData.
Technical• Use the existing OpenGeoData platforms and
Free/OpenSource frameworks and ensure the community volunteering involvements to minimise the expenses.
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State Election Commission'sOrder
Order No. 311/2014/SEC Dated: 18/6/2014
LSGIs of Kerala have no systematically prepared
base maps useful for administrative, scientific and
academic purposes as an official document.
Such a map would be useful as a base document for
future delimitation of wards or bifurcation of LSGIs.
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Activities
1st Phase
Koorachundu Village panchayat OpenStreetMap
Mapping Party
GPS Survey - 4 days - 21/07/2014 to 24/07/2014.
20 OSM - GPS survey volunteers.
17 Field level resource persons.
Team – 1 or 2 OSM volunteers + 1 or 2 resource person.
Food and accommodation by Village Panchayat.
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Essentials
Steering Committee resolution no: 2 dated 17/07/2014. - To conduct OpenStreetMap mapping party to map the area.
Official partnership with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.
Volunteers from Swathanthra malayalam Computing, Dr. R.Satheesh Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS- Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and from Wikimedians and one from IT@School project.
Field level resource persons from Village panchayat.
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Partnership
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing have expertise in Indian Language Computing and FOSS domain and using ICTs for Development .
Both Village Panchayat and SMC conceived this as an OpenGeoData initiative :
–Start from OpenStreetMap and extend to other elements.
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing helped in mobilising experts, volunteers and trainers and done the technology and implementation part of the programme.
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How we did it.
In field:Android mobile phones with GPS receiverThree Android Apps
GPS Logger for Android (GPL)Keypad-Mapper – OpenStreetMap (BSD)OSMTracker for Android™ (GPL V3)GPX tracks and data in OSM format
At desk:JOSM (GPL)iD (WTFPL)and Microsoft Bing Imagery
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Before Mapping activities
After Mapping party
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Achievements
Output - PhysicalCreated the Base OpenGeoData with the following
layers:Ward boundaries(2010),Place names, Road network (partial), Polling booths, Integral institutions,Other major institutions and Places of worship.
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Processing techniqueto build map
Followed a Standard ETL ProcedureExtracted the data from OpenStreetMapTransformed and Loaded in QGIS
Processed and prepared map with QGISVector → OpenStreetMap → Import topology
form .osm(xml)Output SpatiaLite DB →Export topology to
SpatiaLite DB in QGISCompose in QGIS Map Composer → Exported
as .svgFinishing works with Inkscape
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Continuing work
2nd phase
Village reorganisation in progress (4 into 1), involving
surveyors from the Dept. of Survey & Land Records ,
the authorities at the revenue village offices .
Joint field verification is finished, now under the verification
of Taluk authorities.
Village Panchayat will get an accurate Cadastral Map,
and hopefully the #OpenGeoData of cadastral details also as
a by-product.
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Sustainability - Replicability
We felt that this method involving stakeholder communities, is the most cost effective way to develop baseline GIS data for a village panchayat.
People seeking GeoData for their needs, can directly download the data from OpenGeoData repositories .
That will encourage and empower the people to effectively involve in planning/administrative process.
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More details about the work at:
http://blog.smc.org.in/mapping-efforts-in-an-unsurveyed-land-koorachundu/
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