Q. What is the name of the portal that has been launched by the government to help in facilitating new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system-based data?
Answer:
Yuktdhara
Notes:
- The government has launched a new geospatial planning portal, 'Yuktdhara', which will help in facilitating new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system-based data.
- The portal will serve as a repository of geotags created under various national rural development programmes.
- This platform will serve as a repository of assets (geotags) created under various national rural development programmes i.e. MGNREGA, Integrated Watershed Management Programme, Per Drop More Crop programme and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, along with field photographs.
- The portal was launched by Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh.