New Delhi: For optimal use of geospatial data and geographical information system (GIS) in planning and conceptualising district level welfare projects, the central government’s science and technology arm promoting G-governance has planned a brain storming session this week with technical coordinators from 10 states where GIS information is available and under use. “The discussion will focus on assessing the gaps between the geospatial data that we have uploaded on the web-accessible databases and the requirements and practical problems faced by decision makers in government departments like education, PWD, health, social welfare or police or disaster management,” said Bhoop Singh, head, Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS), under the department of science and technology.
“The success stories based on uses of GIS in one state will be shared with others,” said Mr Singh.
He gave the example of district education officer in Karnataka’s Gulbarga district who successfully used geospatial data Infrastructure on his computer to find out which schools need an upgrade in toilet and education facilities.
Similarly, crime probe areas for opening a new police station in Shimoga city in the state were identified by a superintendent of police by analysing the crime data, population density and social-economic factors related to reported crimes, he said.
Mr Singh said that the participants in the brain-storming session will include technical coordinators from 10 states where district level maps or geospatial data infrastructure has also been developed or is in the process of being developed.
These included 60 districts in Karnataka, West Bengal and Uttarakhand and another 100 districts in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Jharkhand and Odisha.
