Yuktdhara

Why in News?

• The government launched a new geospatial planning portal called ‘Yuktdhara’, under Bhuvan, for facilitating Gram Panchayat level planning of MGNREGA. 

1. About Yukth Dhara

• The government launched a new geospatial planning portal called ‘Yuktdhara’, under Bhuvan, for facilitating Gram Panchayat level planning of MGNREGA

• Launched by the Ministry of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. It is a culmination of joint efforts of ISRO and the Ministry of Rural development

• It will act as a repository of assets (Geotags) created under various national rural development programmes i.e. MGNREGA, Integrated Watershed Management Programme, Per Drop More Crop and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, etc

2. About Bhuvan Portal

• It is a web portal used to find and access geographic information (geospatial information) and associated geographic services (display, editing, analysis, etc.) via the Internet

• It shows the true borders of the country as per the information available from the Government of India

• By using MapmyIndia maps and applications instead of the foreign map apps, users can better protect their privacy