Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MPCST) has developed a geo web portal ‘MP Geo Portal’, which will disseminate information about different resources in the State. The portal works with help of geological information system and this can be used by departments and other users.
The primary aim of MPCST’s atlas programme is to prepare resource atlas that displays varieties of resources in the State. The Council has extended its goal by associating universities, educational institutions, research scholars and NGOs.
Chief Scientist and head of the programme Sandeep Goyal informed that before introduction of the MP Geo portal, resource atlas have been published in seven districts. It started with Jhabua-Alirajpur resource atlas, which has been published in Hindi. Other districts where atlas has been published are- Sidhi, Singrauli, Datia, Tikamgarh and Sagar district.
Testing of MP Geo portal is still in the process and the Council has sought suggestions in this regard.
Goyal further stated that the atlas have been prepared in such a way that information about resources available at district-level have been included. Statistics have been collected from government departments such as Culture, agriculture, water resources, Central land water board, and Public health mechanics. Statistics of population has been taken from India 2001 population census. These secondary statistics have been available in the form of chart.
The statistics are available in Microsoft Excel (MS excel) and formatted, and a thematic chart has been prepared. The data can be analyzed in statistical as a well as graphic mode on MS excel. The resources have been depicted in the form of pie chart and bar diagram, Goyal added.