Mapping experiments in an Unsurveyed land - An #OpenGeoData Initiative for Rights to information at Koorachundu Village Panchayat.

1. Mapping experiments in an
Unsurveyed land -
An #OpenGeoData Initiative for
Rights 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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2. Village Panchayat – Location
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3. Village Panchayat – Features
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4. Village Panchayat Profile
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Kozhikode Dist. - Balussery Block.
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87.98 KM2
s.
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Wards 13 nos.
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Assembly Constituency : Balussery
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Parliament Constituency: Kozhikode
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Most of the areas remain unsurveyed.
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Revenue Villages - Koorachundu, Chakkittapara, Kayanna
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(Koyilandy Taluk) and Kanthalad (Thamarassery Taluk).
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Forest - Pervannamuzhi Range, Malabar WLS.
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KSEB - Kuttiyadi Hydroelectric Project (Kakkayam Dam and
reservoir).
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Irrigation – Kuttiyadi Irrigation Project – Peruvannamuzhi
Reservoir.
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5. 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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6. Income & Expenditure
Own Fund Receipts
2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15
0
1,00,00,000
2,00,00,000
3,00,00,000
4,00,00,000
5,00,00,000
6,00,00,000
7,00,00,000
8,00,00,000
9,00,00,000
Outlay
Expenditure
1995-96 2003-04 2014-15
0
10,00,000
20,00,000
30,00,000
40,00,000
Total amounts
Received
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7. Details of Own Fund 2014-15
Property Tax
Profession tax
Other Taxes
PFA license fee
D&O license fee
Building permit fee
Building fitness fee
Birth and Death
Registration Fee
Marriage Registration
Fee
Details of Plan Fund received
1996-97 2003-04 2008-09 2014-15
0
1,00,00,000
2,00,00,000
3,00,00,000
4,00,00,000
5,00,00,000
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8. Details of Plan Fund 1996-97
Untied fund
Basic tax grant
Establishment grand
Minor irrigation
Village road
Maintenance grant
Vehicle tax
Comprehensive
grant
Special Grant
Other grants
And donations
Other receipts
From government
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9. Details of Plan Fund 2014-15
Development fund
(general)
Development fund
(SCP)
Development fund
(TSP)
Maintenance grant
(road)
Maintenance grant
(non road)
13th Finance
Commission Grant
World Bank
Assistance
General Purpose
Grant
MGNREGS fund Funds received
From department
Fund – Old
Age pension
Fund- Window
Pension
Fund – Spinsters
Above 50 years
Pension
Fund -Disabled
Pension
Fund -Agriculture
Labourers Pension
Marriage
Assistance
Unemployment
Allowances
Child welfare
MLA fund MP fund
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10. 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
3
Infrastructure
(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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11. Major focus areas of Panchayat
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Developing Basic Infrastructure,
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Providing drinking water by implementing
Drinking Water Supply Schemes, and
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Provide housing to the homeless.
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12. Introduction
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We have seen different categories of funds
village panchayat receive.
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But they are not unconditional.
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Utilising them are strictly controlled by the
government through numerous directions like
Guidelines /Orders /Circulars etc.
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Some directions are directionless?
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13. Responsibilities
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Citizen have right to Information to have the basic details
about their surroundings in an authentic fashion.
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Local governments - Custodians of Asset registers
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The details of basic infrastructure - road networks and
other public facilities.
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First respondents in case of any hazards, in
practical sense.
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Requirement by RTI Act - 2005
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Sections 4(1), 4(2), 4(3), 4(4):
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Local governments - public authorities
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Responsible for maintaining their records duly catalogued
and indexed,
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Responsible to provide as much information suo
motu to the public through various means of
communications, including internet.
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14. Contradictions
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Essence of the definition of E-Governance by UNESCO
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Encourage Citizen Participation in Governance.
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Central govt guidelines – GIS to be applied.
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Common Guidelines for Watershed Development
Projects, 2008 – Use current trends & advances in IT &
Remote Sensing, Technology inputs - GIS.
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Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana Guidelines – Assets to
be mapped using GIS.
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But village panchayats can't formulate GIS projects
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Vide Govt. Circular No: 71639/IB1/2012/LSGD dated
11/3/2013 - Enforces restrictions over individual software
development activities of the LSGIs of Kerala,
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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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15. #OpenGeoData
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Koorachundu Village Panchayat -
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State of Affairs – No Resource Map, No Cadastral Map,
No GIS.
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But pops up several instances to draw maps:
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Kasturirangan report, Ward delimitation, Sevagram
Gramakendram etc.
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Need baseline GeoData for Developmental Planning and
Implementation and to empower the stakeholders.
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Need of OpenGeoData in case of Emergencies - without
hassle.
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It is easy to draw maps from the layers of GIS, when in need.
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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 responsibility
imposed by RTI Act.
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16. All we had was: Ward Map
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17. Objectives
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Develop the different layers of village
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.
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Ensure that this necessary spatial information can be
accessed with the attribute data in local /
regional language.
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18. Implementation Strategy
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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.
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Technical
• Use the existing OpenGeoData platforms and
Free/OpenSource frameworks and ensure the
community volunteering involvements to
minimise the expenses.
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19. State Election Commission's
Order
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Order No. 311/2014/SEC Dated: 18/6/2014
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LSGIs of Kerala have no systematically prepared
base maps useful for administrative, scientific and
academic purposes as an official document.
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Such a map would be useful as a base document for
future delimitation of wards or bifurcation of LSGIs.
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20. Activities
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1st Phase
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Koorachundu Village panchayat OpenStreetMap
Mapping Party
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GPS Survey - 4 days - 21/07/2014 to 24/07/2014.
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20 OSM - GPS survey volunteers.
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17 Field level resource persons.
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Team – 1 or 2 OSM volunteers + 1 or 2 resource person.
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Food and accommodation by Village Panchayat.
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21. Essentials
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Steering Committee resolution no: 2 dated 17/07/2014. - To
conduct OpenStreetMap mapping party to map the area.
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Official partnership with Swathanthra Malayalam
Computing.
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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.
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Field level resource persons from Village panchayat.
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22. Partnership
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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing have expertise in
Indian Language Computing and FOSS domain and
using ICTs for Development.
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Both Village Panchayat and SMC conceived this as an
OpenGeoData initiative:
–Start from OpenStreetMap and extend to other
elements.
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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing helped in mobilising
experts, volunteers and trainers and done the
technology and implementation part of the programme.
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23. How we did it.
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In field:
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Android mobile phones with GPS receiver
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Three Android Apps
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GPS Logger for Android (GPL)
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Keypad-Mapper – OpenStreetMap (BSD)
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OSMTracker for Android™ (GPL V3)
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GPX tracks and data in OSM format
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At desk:
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JOSM (GPL)
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iD (WTFPL)
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and Microsoft Bing Imagery
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24. In Field
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25. GPS Logger for Android
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26. Keypad-Mapper - OpenStreetMap
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27. OSMTracker for Android™
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28. At Desk - JOSM
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29. At Desk - iD
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F
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30. Before Mapping activities
After Mapping party
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31. Achievements
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Output - Physical
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Created the Base OpenGeoData with the following
layers:
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Ward boundaries(2010),
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Place names,
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Road network (partial),
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Polling booths,
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Integral institutions,
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Other major institutions and
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Places of worship.
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32. Processing technique
to build map
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Followed a Standard ETL Procedure
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Extracted the data from OpenStreetMap
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Transformed and Loaded in QGIS
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Processed and prepared map with QGIS
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Vector → OpenStreetMap → Import topology
form .osm(xml)
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Output SpatiaLite DB →Export topology to
SpatiaLite DB in QGIS
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Compose in QGIS Map Composer → Exported
as .svg
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Finishing works with Inkscape
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33. Resultant Administrative Map
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34. Continuing work
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2nd phase
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Village reorganisation in progress (4 into 1), involving
surveyors from the Dept. of Survey & Land Records,
the authorities at the revenue village offices.
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Joint field verification is finished, now under the verification
of Taluk authorities.
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Village Panchayat will get an accurate Cadastral Map,
and hopefully the #OpenGeoData of cadastral details also as
a by-product.
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35. Four Villages
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36. Joint Field Verification
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37. Joint Field Verification
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38. Sustainability - Replicability
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We felt that this method involving stakeholder communities,
is the most cost effective way to develop baseline GIS
data for a village panchayat.
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People seeking GeoData for their needs, can directly
download the data from OpenGeoData repositories.
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That will encourage and empower the people to
effectively involve in planning/administrative
process.
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39. ?jaisuvyas@gmail.com
More details about the work at:
http://blog.smc.org.in/mapping-efforts-in-an-unsurveyed-land-koorachundu/
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