Sustainable rural development with the application of Spatial Information Technology and Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guaranteed scheme

Information technology has emerged as an inevitable phenomenon influencing every walk of life in all sections of in the present society. With the ease of availability of enormous computing power and convenient access to large volume and variety of data and information, the structure functions of all human organizations will undergo profound transformation in this century. Nations are engaged in exploiting this phenomenon for many of their environmental and socioeconomic requirements. Timely and reliable information on cost effective manner in spatial and temporal domain, which can act as a reliable base line information on natural resources at scale ranging from regional to micro levels, can be generated by geographic information system (GIS), which can help for integrated analysis of natural resources inventory, management and planning the strategy for sustainable development and stand as a power effective administrative and management tool as decision making. The present study integrates the advantages of Geomatics technology and the man power of MNREGS for the rural development activities.