The Rural Development Ministry has signed an MoU with IIT-Delhi for leveraging the use of geospatial technology and artificial intelligence to monitor assets under the MGNREGA.

MOUs and Agreement

The Rural Development Ministry has signed an MoU with IIT-Delhi for leveraging the use of geospatial technology and artificial intelligence to monitor assets under the MGNREGA. The MoU was signed by Amit Kataria, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and Manabendra Saharia of IIT Delhi. This MoU centres around the project 'BhuPRAHARI', an initiative aimed at leveraging ground and space-based geospatial technologies along with artificial intelligence to monitor and manage assets under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).


      The project will be executed by the HydroSense lab led by Saharia.

     

     

 

     


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