Commons Governance, Community Resource Management & Geospatial Catalog
Welcome to the database of the Village Institutions managing their common land and water resources. The tool allows all users to explore the presence of Village Institutions across the country. The tool allows each organisation to add the village institutions they work with, resulting in evolving a cumulative database of larger collective impact. This would enable recognition of village institutions, avoid duplication and help in better program design.
The visualisation may be configured based on administrative boundaries, resource systems or organisational outcomes. This is a widget and can be added to any website as your own database (MIS) and modified based on your own website in which you plan it to be embedded.
Catalog formal and informal community bodies ensuring long-term tenure, local leadership, and equitable resource management.
Enables grassroots organizations to contribute village institutions they support, building a cumulative database of national commons stewardship.
Prevents overlapping interventions by different agencies, ensuring streamlined programmatic design and targeted resource allocation.
Provides actionable spatial and tabular datasets for researchers, policy makers, and development practitioners.
Village Institutions are categorized based on the ecological resource systems and common pool lands they manage:
Institutions managing village forests, Joint Forest Management (JFM) areas, and Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights under the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
Community groups managing common grazing lands, fodder reserves, silvopasture plots, and migratory livestock grazing routes.
Water user associations, community pond (Talav/Pokhar) committees, and watershed maintenance groups overseeing drinking and irrigation water access.
Village level institutions managing and restoring revenue wastelands into productive biophysical assets for community benefit.
Follow these simple steps to explore Village Institutions on the interactive GIS map:
Use the search bar or the administrative filter at the top to drill down by State > District > Sub-District (Block) > Gram Panchayat > Village.
Click on any highlighted village polygon on the map. A left-aligned popup displays all Village Institutions registered in that village with their IDs and land types.
Click anywhere on a VI card to open the complete details drawer. Review governance answers, habitation names, land classification, and approval status.
Use the Map View and Table View switch buttons above the map to alternate between geographic visualization and structured tabular listings.
Are you an NGO, Civil Society Organization, or Research Institution working on Commons?
Partner organizations can digitize, update, and manage Village Institutions directly on this platform. Registered Organization Admins and Super Admins gain access to dedicated administration workflows:
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Welcome to the database of the Village Institutions managing their common land and water resources. The tool allows all users to explore the presence of Village Institutions across the country. The tool allows each organisation to add the village institutions they work with, resulting in evolving a cumulative database of larger collective impact. This would enable recognition of village institutions, avoid duplication and help in better program design.
The visualisation may be configured based on administrative boundaries, resource systems or organisational outcomes. This is a widget and can be added to any website as your own database (MIS) and modified based on your own website in which you plan it to be embedded.
