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The Union Government is planning to establish an Indian National GIS Organisation to collate, verify and maintain GIS data which could be accessed by stakeholders and the public, according to Union Secretary (Department of Science) T Ramasami.
He was delivering a lecture on ‘Remote Sensing and GIS in Nation Building Process’ at a national symposium organised to mark the inaugural of the annual conventions of the Indian Society of Geomatics and the Indian Society of Remote Sensing here on Wednesday. He said the Government was taking up the project to create a national decision support system. A Cabinet note was put up last month and a decision may be expected soon.
Investment decisions for resource planning and infrastructure development and meeting the needs of civil society call for extensive use of remote sensing and GIS-based technologies. The GIS data from different agencies like the Remote Sensing Centre, the Survey of India and the Forest Survey of India, among others, would help bring about a paradigm shift from e-governance to g-governance. G-governance leverages the GIS information in decision managing system, he explained.
The Rs 3,000 crore project would be incubated by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and it would be operated and maintained by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEIT). "National GIS is a development aspiration of India and it will help fast and evidence based resource planning," he said.
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