The Urban Basic Services for Poor (UBSP) Project is a joint venture of NIC, Urban Development Dept., Bihar Govt and UNICEF Patna. The Project aims at improving the ability of service resource planning infrastructure support and decision making of UBSP programme in state of Bihar thus improving the life-style of Urban Slum Dwellers in various cities. The areas that are being targeted include Education, Health, Welfare, Water Supply, Sanitation, Electricity, Environment, etc. The prime thrust is to ameliorate the quality of life for the Slum dwellers towards achieving the goals of improving the income levels and living conditions of the poor. NIC has built up databases for 122 slums in Patna, 42 Slums in Gaya and 52 Slums in Ranchi Town and the various MIS reports based on these databases have been interfaced with digitized slum maps so as to facilitate the Decision makers to analyse the problems of the identified slum in entirety and take effective and timely remedial measure. Furthermore, the project has been interfaced with GIS based platform with integration of data from IRS satellite LISS III and PAN images and maps from different sources to monitor and evaluate the implementation progress. The Secretary, Mr. Ajay Kumar, IAS appreciated NIC team led by Dr. Saurabh Gupta , SIO Bihar for this innovative GIS based ICT solution.
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Urban Basic Services for Poor in Bihar
From July 2003 • Informatics, National Informatics Centre