Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C.R. Patil launched Water Resource Census application and portal at Shram Shakti Bhavan, New Delhi. The Water Resource Census application and portal aids in the following census schemes.

1. The 7^thMinor Irrigation Census
2.  2^ndCensus of Water Bodies
3. 1^stCensus of Springs
4. 1^st Census of Major and Medium Irrigation Projects

A 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme, the reference year will be 2023-24 agricultural year (July 2023- June 2024) under Irrigation Census Scheme.

The main objective of the Water Resource Census is to build a comprehensive and reliable database in the irrigation sector for effective planning and policymaking including water use efficiency, water budgeting etc. The digital application for collection and validation of data significantly enhances data accuracy while reducing the time required for conduct of census.

The key features of the censuses are the following:

• Paperless and end to end digital solution:
  • mobile application for data collection and
  • web application for management and validation processes
• Ground truthing of data received from SAC database during 2^nd Census of Water Bodies
• Recording Latitude, Longitude and images of all schemes
• Pre-population of previous census data (6^th MI and 1^st Water body Census) using LGD codes in the mobile application during data collection to the extent possible
• Use of reverse GIS technology for ensuring accurate recording of Lat/Long of all scheme wherever village boundaries are available
• Use of LGD codes for preparing frame of census

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Dhanya Sanal K

Director

 

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