ABSTRACT
A massive data collection exercise was carried out across schools, houses, panchayats, and health centers in 49 gram panchayats of Balasore, Odisha, to create development plans for each village to encourage targeted development through community governance. These data points were then boarded onto a dashboard, and a priority matrix was created across sectors, based on which village development plans were framed.
Critical insights were generated upon data analysis: 18% of villagers did not hold an Aadhar Card, and only 8.2% of households used LPG as the primary energy source for cooking. Village officials then carried out targeted interventions to alleviate the villagers’ problems, and the previously underused gram panchayat funds were put into these data-backed actionable tasks.
