PRADHAN MANTRI GRAM SADAK YOJANA

The 'Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana'' or PMGSY is a nationwide plan in India to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages. It is under the authority of the Ministry of Rural Development and was begun on 25 December 2000.^[1]
The goal was to provide roads to all villages (1) with a population of 1000 persons and above by 2003, (2) with a population of 500 persons and above by 2007, (3) in hill states, tribal and desert area villages with a population of 500 persons and above by 2003, and (4) in hill states, tribal and desert area villages with a population of 250 persons and above by 2007.^[2] In order to implement this an ''Online Management & Monitoring System'' or OMMS GIS system was developed to identify targets and monitor progress.^[3]

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1. "PMGSY Scheme and Guidelines: Introduction" Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, No. P-12025/8/2001-RC (Pt)
2. "PMGSY Scheme and Guidelines: Programme Objectives" Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, No. P-12025/8/2001-RC (Pt)
3. ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank>/http://ruralinformatics.nic.in/files/4_9_0_273.doc CRISP Group, National Informatics Centre (2004) "Rural Informatics in India – An Approach Paper" from Web Archives

External links

★ Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana website

★ Sen, Sumit ''et. al'' (2006) "Schema Matching as a step towards Interoperability: Experiments in the Indian NSDI" Beyond Spatial Data Infrastructures International Workshop at the GIScience 2006, 20th September 2006 in Münster, Germany