GIS AND PPGIS: A Tool for School Mapping and Planning, Bengal, India

TARGET GROUP: SCHOOLS

OBJECTIVES

· To focus on the concept of Geographic Information Systems and on the role of GIS as a planning tool. 

· To analyse the role of PPGIS in educational planning.

SUMMARY

This study basically focuses on universalisation of access to education. Access to education can be of three kinds. Firstly, physical access, which emphasizes that geographical distance between schools and households, is to be minimized. Secondly, economic access, which implies the financial capacity of households to send children to schools even when facilities are easily accessible in a geographical sense. Thirdly, social access which means that social stratification based on caste, class and religion has implications for access available public provisions. Many educational planning problems such as physical accessibility to schools, redistricting schools, school performance and equity are geography-based. School Mapping (SM) techniques that integrate GIS and local communities have been effectively implemented in the school planning process (Govinda, 1999).                 

REFERENCE:

https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT1802630.pdf