Irfan Tramboo
SRINAGAR, Oct 17: The Health & Medical Education Department has kick-started implementing the Prime Minister Gati Shakti initiative in Jammu and Kashmir.
In this regard, the Mission Director, National Health Mission, J&K has been designated as the Nodal Officer for implementation of the same, who has been given a number of tasks to accomplish.
The H&ME has directed the Nodal Officer to ensure seamless onboarding of all health facilities on the designated portal of PM Gati Shakti and upload requisite data in both Excel and KML (Keyhole Markup Language) format for all health facilities in a phased manner.
The Nodal Officer will also keep the data about the important fields, encompassing facilities available like bed capacity, manpower, equipment, utilities, etc available in the requisite format and will update the same on a regular basis.
Further, the designated officer will also coordinate with all the HoDs of the Health & Medical Education Department, Remote Sensing Department, Industries and Commerce Department, Planning Development and Monitoring Department, and other Departments/Offices concerned.
It is to be noted here that Prime Minister in October last year launched PM Gati Shakti – National Master Plan for multi-modal connectivity, essentially a digital platform to bring 16 Ministries including Railways and Roadways together for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure projects.
The initiative has six basic pillars, including comprehensiveness, which will include all the existing and planned initiatives of various Ministries and Departments with one centralized portal. The same, officials said, will pave a way for every Department to have visibility of each other’s activities providing critical data while planning & comprehensively executing projects.
Under the second pillar, prioritization, different Departments will be able to prioritize their projects through cross-sectoral interactions, while under the pillar of optimization; the National Master Plan will assist different ministries in planning for projects after the identification of critical gaps.
Concerning synchronization, which forms another basic pillar of the initiative, the departments and Ministries will get to have more coordination and synchronization as well as different layers of governance by ensuring sync of work between them.
Under the initiative, entire data will remain available in one place with GIS-based spatial planning and analytical tools having 200+ layers, enabling better visibility to the executing agency.
With the help of PM Gati Shakti, all Ministries and Departments will be able to visualize, review and monitor the progress of cross-sectoral projects, through the GIS platform, as the satellite imagery will give on-ground progress periodically and the progress of the projects will be updated regularly on the portal. The same, officials said, will help in identifying the interventions for enhancing and updating the national master plan.
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