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Statistical Information System for Local
Level Planning by Local Bodies in the
District of Howrah, West Bengal.
Pulakesh Maiti
INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
KOLKATA
Planning for development invites four
different types of activities
 Formulation,
 Implementation,
 Monitoring during implementation and
 Evaluation on completion.
To carryout each of these
activities,
relevant,
reliable
and
timely information
is needed at every stage.
The 73rd and 74th Amendments
of the Constitution of India have
squarely laid the responsibility
of Local Planning to the Local
Bodies.
It stands to reason that
information
needed
for
such planning should also
be collected and managed
by the Local Bodies.
The present Five Year Plan of the
state aims to make the planning
apparatus more responsive to the
tastes and endowments of the grass
root through people’s participation
and more flexible in dealing with local
resource problems.
The rural and urban bodies have therefore
undergone a qualitative transformation from
being primarily administrative units with
some responsibilities, they have now
become planning units (with administrative
responsibilities) integrated with the planning
apparatus of the country and the state,
responsible for economic development and
social justice and local governments with
wider powers and responsibilities.
The local bodies have to develop their
own planning apparatus which can
communicate with and is clearly
related to the state and central
planning hierarchies and hence,
require to be strengthened in
information gathering for local level
planning.
The Statistical Information System has
been developed for Decentralised Planning
and have the following major components:
 The database forming the ‘container’ of
statistical information,
 computer software to process the information;
 statistical data – the actual ‘content’ of the
system.
Some recommendations have been
made on
• present data recording system
• need of availability of technology
at the different Local Bodies
• success of SIS
• training of the elected representatives and
also the policy executers on the newly
developed SlS.
Expectations from the newly
developed Statistical
Information System (SIS)
Self dependency of the policy
makers for making decisions to
run the Local Government can be
achieved through this Statistical
Information System.
USE OF COMPUTERISED
DATABASE CREATED
BY
THE STATISTICAL INFORMATION
SYSTEM (SIS)
FOR
LOCAL PLANNING AT THE
APPROPRIATE LEVEL
OF
DECENTRALISED ADMINISTRATION
The Issues To Be Addressed
Need of the Database
Identification of Items of information
needed for Decentralised Planning
Data Management System
Data Mining and Processing
Major Heads of Information
Design of the Output Format
Continued……
The Issues To Be Addressed
Different Categories of Information needed
for making rational decision
Basic Reports with information on the
identified list of variables needed for
planning at
i) Gram Sansad level
ii) Gram Panchayat level
iii) Panchayat Samity/Block level
Statistical Information generated by SIS
An illustrative list of activities related to
Decentralised Planning
NEED OF THE DATA BASE
For catering to the needs of local level planning by
the rural local bodies, priorities have to be given
on the following components:
Widening of the scope of employment of the
common people;
Taking care of their health;
Widening of the educational facilities;
Establishment of social justice removing the
discrimination of gender, caste and creed;
Improvement of the infrastructure facilities.
In view of the above, the database for the district
have been prepared.
Identification of Items of information
needed for Decentralised Planning
The identification of variables was guided by the
items stated under the 11th and 12th schedules
of the 73rd and 74th Ammendments of the
Constitution for rural as well as urban local
bodies. Data formats were designed, keeping in
view that each of them has the following
properties:
Easy to understand;
Concise;
Amenable to computerisation.
Data Management System
The Statistical Information System (SIS)
software has been developed for storing
the data. The system developed for this
has the following features :
 The data collected during any survey
period can be incorporated in the
system.
 The data once stored can be updated as
and when required – updating in the
sense of revising the data if necessary
and also in augmenting the system
through new data.
Display of the Structure of Data Management System
Display of the Structure of the Data Management System
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