Community Worker presents the Shelter Associates Slum Data Directory to the SMKMC

On 27th January 2012 a Shelter Associates Community Worker, Mrs. Sangita Chougule, who is a resident of the Sangliwadi slum, and therefore a beneficiary of the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Program, presented the Shelter Associates Slum Data Directory to the Sangli, Miraj and Kupwad Municial Corporation; the SMKMC are charged with the responsibility of implementing the IHSDP in Sangli and Miraj under the Government of India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

Mrs. Sangita Chougules gave her presentation to the officer who is in charge of information technology at the Urban Local Body and explained how the data for all slums in Sangli, Miraj and Kupwad area, which was collected by Shelter Associates, has been organised on the Shelter Associates web site.

Mrs. Sangita Chougules explained that the four Administrative Wards of the SMKMC have been illustrated, and that by clicking on one of the Administrative Wards the user is directed to an image which shows all of the Electoral Wards within that Administrative Ward.  Once the viewer is looking at the Electoral Wards they can also see the of the slums in that area, and that by clicking on a slum the user will be provided with brief information about the slum and a link to that slums factsheet.  The factsheet provides detailed information about the slum such as: population, ownership, services, local amenities, etc.

Mrs. Sangita Chougules also highlighted that the Administrative Wards, Electoral Wards, and slums in the Slum Data Directory have all been accurately drawn over a Google Earth satellite image of the Sangli, Miraj and Kupwad area, meaning that all of the information within the Shelter Associates Slum Data Directory is spatially organised.  The SMKMC Information Officer was impressed by the quantity and quality of the information that had been collected by Shelter Associates, and the clarity of its organisation, and presentation on the Shelter Associates website.  The I.T. officer suggested that a link to the Slum Data Directory would be put onto the SMKMC website.