A paper titled ‘GIS-enabled framework for geo-referenced works under e-governance’ contributed by Shri G.P. Singh, Senior Technical Director, Director, National Informatics Centre, U.P. State Unit, Lucknow has been published in May 2013 issue of  Geospatial World Weekly. The paper details the GIS framework that can help in integration of MIS with GIS to give geographical view of MIS data on the map of plan units (district /block/village panchayat). The study presented in the paper is based on the prototype application developed using GIS with data of district of Unnao from U.P. available in Planplus software for panchayat raj system implemented by Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of India for schemes and plan execution in the district, block and village panchayat.

The complete paper is available at  http://www.geospatialworld.net/Paper/Application/ArticleView.aspx?aid=30526

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For further details Mr. G.P. Singh can be contacted at gp.singh@nic.in