Dr L. R Yadav, Senior Technical Director, NIC, U.P. State Unit Lucknow presented a paper on “Strengthening Government Decision Making Process Through Integrated SPIDER and e-MANCHITRA Online Portals” during third International Conference on ‘Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT) 2012’ held at  ISI, Kolkata between 30thNovember and 1st December 2012. The conference was organised by Computer Society of India Kolkata Chapter to recognize the tremendous growth in the application areas of Information Technology and to provide a forum to the technologists, application developers, researchers from the industry and academic institutions to exchange their ideas on the emerging areas of ICT.

SPIDER is an internet based data entry and retrieval system that facilitates decentralized, online data entry and updating on more than 4000 parameters thereby providing local level information in digital form for decision making.  This project is meant to identify the inter village panchayat, inter block and inter district disparities so that gaps can be found in developed and under developed areas. The eMANCHITRA (Map Based Analytical Charting and Reporting Application) aims at eliminating inter regional disparities that persist as a problem in decentralisation process, by generating grass root level thematic atlases based on SPIDER indicators.