<span style="color: #222222;">More than 7 lakh 70 thousand rural facilities such as medical, educational, and markets have been geo tagged under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana III. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said Rural Development Ministry has released Geographic Information System data developed for PMGSY scheme in public domain on 22nd of February this year. She termed it as a historic and most important contribution to National Geospatial Mission.<br />''<br />''The GIS data created under PMGSY National GIS guideline is not just of rural areas, but a holistic national geospatial dataset including urban areas, national highways, state highways, and railway tracks. Geosadak has been developed utilizing fully indigenous GIS data layers and satellite data services.<br />''<br />''This data especially captured the rural roads, 10 lakh habitations, and other facilities in rural and remote areas which existing public and private mapping datasets did not cover meaningfully.</span><br />