JAMMU: Planning Development & Monitoring Department (PD&MD) today organized training of field functionaries from Panchayats, Blocks, and Districts on the Aspirational Panchayat Development Programme (APDP) dashboard launched recently by Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta.
Addressing the participants during the training program, Secretary, of PD&MD, Dr. Raghav Langer, said that APDP is one of the priority and ambitious areas of the Government. He added that APDP Dashboard (https://pdmd.jk.gov.in/abdp) has been created with an aim to monitor the progress of 285 Aspirational Panchayats besides it will also monitor all the 4291 Panchayats of the J&K including 1180 Border Area Panchayats of J&K.
The Secretary informed participants about the unique features of the dashboard prepared by the IT department J&K. He asked the participants that data quality has to be maintained in order to arrive at accurate results which shall match with the ground situation.
He made out that each of the Panchayat is evaluated across 9 sectors having 100 indicators. He informed that the dashboard has a feature to filter top and bottom Panchayats in each district across different sectors. It was also brought out that the data entry for each month has to be done at the Panchayat level which has to be validated at Block and authenticated at District level.
The Secretary stressed on the importance of data on a real-time basis for the achievement of desired goals for the Aspirational Panchayats. A more capacity-building programme needs to be done at the district level for sensitization of officers and officials associated with the population of data of Aspirational Panchayats.
Ajeet Singh, Consultant, JaKeGA, IT Department, J&K was a resource person who imparted training to all participants. He explained in depth about the usage of the dashboard which included login, and populating indicator values.
A detailed presentation on requirements at the panchayat level, Block level, and district level were explained. Further, all the features which as Aspirational Panchayat data, all Panchayats data, Border Panchayats data, Border Aspirational Panchayats data, uploading of work plan schedules and progress, documentation of best practices, among others were elaborated in detail.
During the program, a question-answers session was also held in which all the queries raised by the Districts were cleared by the IT team and PD&MD team. It was also reiterated that further training on the subject shall be undertaken by the IT Department in consultation with the Districts in the future as per requirement.
The training session was attended by the Director General, Economics & Statistics, J&K, Satvir Kour Sudan; the Director General, PFD, Shahzada Bilal Ahmad; Director General, PMCE, Parvaiz Sajad Kakroo; representatives from IT Department, representatives from the Rural Development Department, Assistant Commissioner Development, Chief Planning Officers, Nodal officers of ABDP, Block Development Officers and other concerned officers.
