Lok Sabha Question No. 159 (STARRED), answered on 2018-12-20
Subject: List of Government Entities
Ministry: PANCHAYATI RAJ
Asked by: MAHEISH GIRRI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *159

ANSWERED ON 20.12.2018

## LIST OF GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

## *159.   SHRI MAHEISH GIRRI:

Will the Minister of PANCHAYATI RAJ be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  steps  to  maintain  up-to-date  list  of  revenue entities, local Government bodies, wards, organisational structure of Central, State and Local Government,  reporting  hierarchy  within  the  Government  organisations,  Parliamentary  and Assembly constituencies; and

(b) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF PANCHAYATI RAJ (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) & (b) A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO  IN  PARTS  (a)  &  (b)  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION  NO.  159  FOR  ANSWER  ON  20.12.2018  REGARDING  LIST  OF  GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

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(a) & (b) In order to maintain up-to-date list of various administrative units, Ministry of Panchayati Raj  with  the  help  of  National  Informatics  Centre  (NIC)  has  developed  the  Local  Government Directory (LGD) under e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project. The LGD aims at keeping all information about the list, structure of Local Governments (Rural and Urban) and revenue entities online. LGD acts as a standard digital repository of unique location codes of all administrative units e.g. revenue entities  (districts,  sub-districts  and  villages),  Local  Government  Bodies  (Panchayats,  Municipalities and traditional bodies), blocks, reporting hierarchy within the Governments organisations, territorial units etc. Necessary provisions for updation of these entities by the States / Union Territories have been provided in the LGD application.

The issues  of  interoperability  and  standardization  of  location  codes  have  been  resolved  by using LGD codes in schemes / e-Governance application. Local Government Directory application (http://lgdirectory.gov.in) is acting as the standard location code directory across databases/applications  of  Ministries/Departments  and  States/UTs  and  used  as  the  single  standard window to  update  and  manage  unique  codes  of  various  administrative  units,  both  rural  and  urban units. Thus, LGD  is  great help for standardisation of location codes, providing locational administrative hierarchy details, interoperability of data between two or more governance applications,  transparency  through  cross  verification  and  enhancing  accountability.  Some  of  the salient features of the LGD Application are as follows:

-  Unique Code to each administrative entity
-  Customizable Local Government/Panchayat Setup
-  Generating/ uploading the Government Orders/Notifications by the user
-  Maintenance  of  local  government  bodies  and  its  mapping  with  constituting  land  region entities e.g. villages mapping with Gram Panchayat and Blocks
-  Capturing and maintaining cross-mapping of various hierarchies of the administrative units e.g.
-  State → District → Sub-District → Village
-  State → District → Block → Gram Panchayat → Village,
-  State → District Panchayat → Intermediate Panchayat → Gram Panchayat → Village
-  Maintaining versioning of the entities (any change in the attributes are recorded)
-  Managing conversion of Local Bodies
-  Customizable department/ organization hierarchy
-  Availability of location code search facility based on name and code of the entity
-  Data sharing through web-services with other e-Governance applications
-  Data can be downloaded in multiple (HTML, PDF, spread sheet, CSV and XML) formats

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