The India Observatory is a collaborative tech initiative that is action-oriented. It aims to demystify and present comprehensive information on India’s social, ecological, and economic parameters on a single spatial and temporal platform. India Observatory aims at embedding nature conservation and natural resource management into mainstream thinking on ‘rural development’. It is designed to supplement local-level decision-making by village communities, Panchayats, NGOs, and government officials.

Ref. Link:   https://www.indiaobservatory.org.in/

Q. What is the mission of GEET?

 Ans. GEET aims to improve reach, response and review of the implementation of government social security schemes.

·         Enhance community participation in tracking their rights and entitlements as informed citizens.

• Assist monitoring by state, district and government officials of the reach of services to each individual/household.

• Advance community and government linkages to make entitlement tracking an interactive process.

• Enable updates of the database by community workers through data collection at regular intervals.

• Strengthen the livelihoods of small, marginalized, landless households through access to social security schemes.

 Ans. GEET aims to improve reach, response, and review of the implementation of government social security schemes.

·         Enhance community participation in tracking their rights and entitlements as informed citizens.

• Assist monitoring by state, district, and government officials of the reach of services to each individual/household.

• Advance community and government linkages to make entitlement tracking an interactive process.

Ans. We believe in empowering and providing easy access to welfare schemes to the common people. No one is left behind, to reach the last mile.

Ans. GEET system is designed to make people aware about different government schemes that they are eligible for.  Users can check their schemes eligibility, the list of documents required for eligible schemes and the source of the department from where they can get the documents as well as an entitlement of schemes.

It also aids community institutions as well as local governments to track progress with respect to access to entitlements and benefits availed under various government schemes.

For such information, users have to access the GEET website.

Ans. Yes. GEET is also available in android mobile platform, to increase the awareness of schemes at a larger level.  You can download the app from GEET website ( https://geet.observatory.org.in/ ) .

No, we don’t have GEET in Google play store. But you can find it on GEET website as mentioned above or

You can use following link to download GEET mobile app -

a)      Link for Public : https://geet.observatory.org.in/mobileapp/public/GEET_PUBLIC.apk      

b)      Link for Enumerators  : https://geet.observatory.org.in/mobileapp/admin/GEET_ENUM_1.5.6.apk

Ans. GEET is a national-level program for informing citizens about schemes entitlement and tracking its grievances.  Hence, it cannot be used in other countries.

Ans. We have covered schemes data of 12 states and partnered with 23 NGOs across India. GEET website Home page displays current usage of GEET.

Ans. Till August 2021 -- 5,03,443 + individuals and 230000+ households have been checked their scheme eligibility

Ans.  Target beneficiaries are the rural people, communities, community institutions, local NGOs, government officials active in the community in all sectors.

Ans. We as India Observatory is focusing to work for commons and one of the fundamental dimensions of FES is rural livelihoods. India Observatory, an initiative of FES helps improve rural livelihoods through a set of unique platforms and tools like GEET.

One of the many challenges encountered by underprivileged communities in India is availing the benefits of scores of social welfare programs run by both state and central governments. In the absence of proper information or clarity regarding eligibility, a large part of the population, especially communities based in rural and remote areas, is literally ‘left out. While men and women miss out on employment and health benefits, children miss out on nutrition and the elderly on their monthly pension entitlement. In such a scenario, a system like GEET (GIS-Enabled Entitlement Tracking) becomes critical for good governance.

Ans. We believe in contributing to an 'ecosystem organization' wherein organizations with like-minded interests share data, analytics and tools, so that they can make a lasting impact. We realize that organizations are by their very design focused on certain elements, functions or themes and that it is in the joining of hands between such organizations and initiatives that we could hope to make a reasonable impact.

Please contact us here:   https://geet.observatory.org.in/Contact/getContact

Ans.  Yes, it is possible to meet the beneficiary personally. Case studies will also be available in GEET

Ans.  Any person or NGO  interested to work in this area can contact us at –

           https://geet.observatory.org.in/Contact/getContact 

Ans. Our head office is located in Anand, Gujarat, INDIA.

 For further details please check the contact link 

 https://geet.observatory.org.in/Contact/getContact