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Manual for Integrated District Planning
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PlanPlus
NIC has developed the PlanPlus software for the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, to simplify and strengthen
the decentralised planning process. Its features are:
• simple, web-based software with local language interface available with appropriate
authentication, facilitating generation of participative plans through interactive workflows among
all participating agencies;
• enables intelligent convergence of funds from different schemes for selected project work;
• enables sectoral integration by stimulating the planner to think in terms of end-to-end projects
rather than in terms of isolated islands of work;
• facility for co-opting works of a lower tier by a higher level thereby facilitating vertical integration;
• allows customisable workflows for the planning process, including modification, finalisation and
evaluation as per state-specific needs;
• generates various views of the Plan including local government-wise, sectoral, and scheme-wise
plans;
• provides variety of graphical reports to assist planners and planning entities; and
• enables complete transparency at every stage of the planning process, by enabling public
disclosure throughout the planning process.
Target users of PlanPlus include Central and state government departments, local governments, districtlevel
line departments, financial institutions, District Planning Committees and citizens. The Ministry
of Urban Development is working to improve upon it to facilitate its adoption in urban decentralised
planning.
“National Panchayat Portal” (http://panchayat.gov.in)
Developed by NIC for the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, this portal contains dynamic websites for
all Panchayats at the district, intermediate and village levels. While the website provides a broad
framework for data presentation, content management can be entirely undertaken by the Panchayats
themselves without any specialised skills and knowledge of computer programming.
Gram ++
This software has been developed by IIT, Mumbai and permits the easy integration of numerical data
onto a global information system (GIS) for spatial display.
Riddhi soft
This software has been developed by a private company and provides a cost-effective and versatile GIS
platform for local planning.
DISNIC
The DISNIC is an NIC initiative aimed at collecting extensive data on local resources in a detailed
village-wise database
NIC’s GIS
NIC has an in-house GIS system that accesses data from remote sensing sources and provides detailed
topography, soil, land use and water cover details, which is ideal for watershed and agricultural
planning.
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