Sharad, yes Panchayat is a collection of Villages.
That sent me to search for data / list of panchayats. There are many website for Local Governance most of them do not function properly. however one of them lgdirectoty.gov.in seems to work and there is s downloadable data out there. well till one goes an hits is head on the captcha thing. I tried several browsers but the captcha image is broken. If anyone can try and find a workaround it will be good. In the meantime I am trying to send them an email On Friday, August 8, 2014 6:26:48 PM UTC+5:30, Sharad Lele wrote: > > Dilip, only one kind of 'block', which is CD block (but often just > referred to as 'block'). > > But to complicate life :-) there can be several other admin & governance > levels in between. For instance, in Karnataka, 10-20 villages are grouped > into a 'hobli' by the revenue department. (below taluka level). Similarly, > several villages (usually less than those in a hobli) are grouped together > into a Gram Panchayat. In Maharashtra, gram panchayat and revenue village > are I think identical. (Just to remind ourselves: when we say 'village', we > mean revenue village--which is what census uses. Not gram panchayat, nor > hamlet of any kind). > > Sharad > > On Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:58:14 PM UTC+5:30, Dilip Damle wrote: >> >> So it seems to be >> >> Country > State > Division > District > Tehsil / Taluk > Some Kind of >> Block > Village >> >> Let us first get this ans confirm if each is subset of the other or >> there are overlaps and if there is any other item missing in between then >> let us proceed >> >> >> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
