Bhubaneswar: The State Government will be extending its monitoring processes through a governance atlas, covering 6,794 gram panchayats (GPs) of the state, by October 2, 2023.
The project will be launched by the Poverty and Human Development Monitoring Agency (PHDMA). In the first phase, the initiative will bring out a governance atlas of 4,056 panchayats by March 5, 2023, coinciding with the Panchayati Raj Divas.
“Governance atlas of all GPs is a systematic tracking of access, availability and utility of priority schemes, projects, programmes and benefits at household, individual, cohort, sectoral and institutional levels as well as capturing of people’s aspirations to trigger a robust redressal mechanism,” an official release said.
The governance atlas will be shared with stakeholders for resolution and necessary policy actions and inputs, it added.
The PHDMA teams will be mobile in the field for the next one year. They will visit each panchayat and involve themselves in the process of narrative collection as a form of continuous monitoring, which is the ‘the Mycelium Way’, and prepare reports on what works for the people of Odisha, what should be worked on and what are their aspirations. The Mycelium Way refers to the wisdom of the people shared with PHDMA through immersing with them and listening to them.
These observations as reports known as ‘governance atlas’ will provide a detailed analysis of the progress of governance in the state and will help the administration track growth of individuals, households and communities.
