Centre launched SAHYO app to help area-specific strategies, decisions in COVID-19 outbreak

Department of Science and Technology of Government of India has created an Integrated Geospatial Platform out of available geospatial datasets, standards-based services, and analytic tools to help decision making during the current COVID-19 outbreak and aid devising area-specific strategies to handle the socio-economic impact in the recovery phase.

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The mobile application and the website prepared and managed by the Survey of India (SoI)

The SAHYO aims to help decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It will aid devising area-specific strategies to handle the socio-economic impact in the recovery phase.

The platform will strengthen the public health delivery system of the Central and State Governments.

It will provide the necessary geospatial information support to citizens and agencies dealing with the challenges related to socio-economic distress, health, and livelihood challenges.

The app has been customized to collect COVID-19 specific geospatial datasets through community engagement to augment the response activities by the Government of India to the pandemic.

Information parameters required as per the strategy of the Government of India strategy and containment plan for large outbreaks have been incorporated in the SAHYOG application.