Current Affairs 16 July 2021 – IAS Current Affairs
Current Affairs 16 July 2021 focuses on Prelims-Mains perspective. Major events are :
Kisan Sarathi App Digital Platform
Source : Business Standard
Prelims/Technology
What is discussed under Kisan Sarathi App Digital Platform ?
- How Kisan Sarathi App Works ?
- Who are the beneficiaries of the system ?
- Development of Portal and App
Why in News ?
In order to facilitate farmers to get right information at right time in their desired language a digital platform namely Kisan Sarathi was launched.
Key Facts
- Kisan Sarathi’, an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) based platform.
- This initiative of Kisan Sarathi to empower farmers with the technological interventions to reach farmers in remote areas.
- With the digital platform the farmers can interact and avail personalised advisories on agriculture and allied areas directly from the respective scientists of KrishiVigyan Kendra (KVKs).
- How Kisan Sarathi App Works ?
- The app will be used to provide information to farmers in their desired language.
- The app will also facilitate officials to monitor daily activities like farmer registration, live calls, messages,
Source : Kisan Sarathi advisories given and pending.
- Farmers can interact with adviser.
- It can addressing the location specific information needs of the farmers.
- This system provides options to farmers to subscribe to the various services.
- Farmers will then receive individual needs-based information for only those services to which they have subscribed.
- Farmers have an option at a later date to either select more services or unsubscribe to some of the existing services.
- The system is connected to a centralized database, which has all information on the farm, farmer, and previous transactions.
- The experts at the back end have access to the farmers’ database while responding to the farmers’ queries.
- The calls from the farmers are received at the centralized server and routed to the relevant expert.
- The expert understands the farmer or the field problem in a better way and facilitates in providing an appropriate solution (Know You Farmer).
- Who are the beneficiaries of the system ?
- Agriculture Extension Department
- KrishiVigyanKendras (KVK)
- Subject Matter Specialist
- Farmer
- Field Extension Workers
- Development of Portal and App
- Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS) would be the technical platform used for delivery of personalised advisories through KVKs in Kissan Sarathi.
- IIDS application has been developed using open-source technology such as PHP and MySQL for the web portal.
- Data is transmitted through voice, text, images, and videos.
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