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The need for quick and broad application of Speech enabled systems is becoming obvious. Studies have shown that there is a substantial "digital divide" that prevents many of our citizens, particularly illiterate rural people, from using the emerging technology. In order to accelerate this essential "technology transfer," this research aims to develop an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system (IVRS) for rural agricultural purpose, using Marathi speech recognition. The automatic recognition of speech, enabling a natural and easy to use method of communication between human and machine, is an active area of research. The proposed IVR system in this research uses Speech Recognition technology in Marathi language that handles the queries of transactions at "Krushi Utpanna Bajar Samiti".

The Remote Sensing has been playing an important role in mapping spatial and temporal behavior of forest cover. The mapping results are largely dependent on the user's preferences because it is location and application specific. The study deals with the use of RS techniques to know the present status of forest area undertaken in the Gautala Wildlife Sanctuary, and Bird Sanctuary, Aurangabad region. Forest cover is depleting very fast due to the conversion of forest region into agricultural or other land use. The forest cover estimation of these protected areas has been derived from forest cover map generated from LISS III satellite images of the year 1997 and 2015 using digital image classification and processing approach. The temperature of the Aurangabad district is increasing and rainfall is reducing which indicates that deforestation can be one of the associated causes for it. The classification result shows that there is a significant conversion, loss in forest cover.

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