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The Department of
Science and Technology has taken a lead in
developing NRDMS Centres (Natural Resources Data
Management System) in several states. It is
offered as a spatial decision support tool for
micro level planning in view of the Seventy
Third and Seventy fourth Amendments of the
Constitution. The NRDMS database contains data
on natural resources, demography, agro & socio
economy as well as infrastructural facilities.
These data, though, important for taking
planning decisions are inadequate and need to be
complemented with human and social resources
data bases, in the absence of which most
planning decisions may miss the target. In fact,
several agencies at the national, state and
district levels collect data on social and
economic indicators. These data, however, never
get integrated on one platform and do not feed
in to the decisions making process as much as
they ought to. Data available on human resources
similarly do not go beyond levels of literacy
and provide no profiling of skills and
competencies or knowledge base of the community.
Human & Social Resources Data Management System
(HSRDMS) is expected to bridge this vital gap
and facilitate in accelerating human and social
development.
The major objectives of the HSRDMS programme
will be as follows:
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To develop a
conceptual system for profiling of human and
social resources for various spatial (planning)
units.
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To develop
methodologies for integrating quantitative as
well as qualitative data.
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To provide
diagnostic tools for assessing these spatial
regions where natural resources and their
utilization may be out of sync with human and
social resources
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To develop models
of Natural Resources Use and depletion in the
context of Human and Social resources
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To offer
techniques, methodologies and software for
generation and analysis of Human and Social
resources data and its overall management.
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To sensitize
planners, policy makers and others and to enable
them to develop culturally appropriate
development plans and strategies in the context
of available human and social resources.
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To monitor and
assess the status of the development of human
and social capital
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To develop
linkages with the NRDMS Centres, NIC, NSS and
other organizations collecting such data at the
district, block and village levels.
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To make available
the human and social resources database to
researchers concerned with the study of social,
cultural, political and economic development and
change.
THEMES FOR
HSRDMS DATABASE
Some possible themes around which HSRDMS
database is built are :
I. HUMAN RESOURCES
(A) Knowledge: Indigenous; global about
physical (e.g. Agriculture, Environment, Health,
Industry, etc.), psychological, cultural, social
and economic domains
(B)
Competencies:
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Intellectual
(Innovation, Decision making, Strategic
perspective taking, Aptitude, cognitive
Complexity, etc.
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Interpersonal
(Communication, Adaptability, Flexibility, etc.)
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Motivational
(Initiative, Drive, Risk taking, Resilience,
Persistence, etc.)
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Emotional
(Equipoise/Balance; Maturity; Stress resistance,
etc.)
(C) Skills:
Ability to apply knowledge to specific problems
in different domains of economic, political and
social life. One is slightly more concerned with
mapping of skills in the production domains in
the context of available technologies.
(D) Values and Attitudes: are important
drivers of competency along with knowledge and
skills and of social commitment.
(E) Power and Influence : The degree to
which it is possible to use various levels of
power to influence decision making in one’s own
on community’s favor.
II. SOCIAL RESOURCES
(A) Indigenous Knowledge System (Agriculture;
Health & Healing; Environment, etc.)
(B) Infrastructural Facilities (Housing; Schools
and Colleges; PHCs and Hospitals; Public Healths;
Transport; Telecommunication; financial
Institutions; Energy type & use)
(C) Social Networks (Religious and Cultural
Organizations; Mahila and other Mandalies; Other
kinds of social groups, etc.)
(D) Community Organizations (Cooperatives; SHGs;
Caste and Other Panchayats; NGOs; Neighbourhood
clubs)
(E) Freedom (Levels of Education; Participation
in elections PRIs; social Control, structures of
conflict resolution)
(F) Social Structure (Caste and other groups;
Family types; Occupations; social Hierarchy;
Bases of Power)
(G) Health (Nutritional Status; Immunization;
Disease types; Frequency of diseases; Infant
mortality; Life Expectancy, etc.)
(H) Community Resources (Water; Sanitation;
Energy; Living; and Parks; etc.)
(I) Cultural (Rites and Rituals; Music & Crafts;
Fairs; Identity; Language & Literature; Beliefs;
Practices)
(J) Market & Industry (Nature & Types)
(K) Gender (Ratio; Educational and Employment
Status; Crime against women; Dowry; Share in
property; etc.)
(L) Livelihood Activities : (Farm sector; Non
Farm Sector; Organized and Informal sector;
Income Levels;
(M) Natural Resources (Land & Soil Water;
climate; forest & Wild life; Mineral and other
resources, etc.)
(N) Constraints & Impediments ( Crime; Poor Law
and Order; Corruption; Inefficiency
Services/Organizations
(O) Technology (Awareness; Access; Expertise;
Level of Technology; appropriate Technology) |
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