Survey of India advised ministry of skill development to recognize “Geospatial” as sector

Mangaluru :  The Survey of India, nation’s principal mapping agency has taken up the case with Union Ministry of Skill Development whereby geospatial is recognised either as a sector or a sub-sector, surveyor general of India, Lt Gen Girish Kumar said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi.

“As on today, geospatial is not recognized as a sector, like power, mining and telecom are sectors, whereas geospatial is mother of all these because without geospatial information not even a single sector can come up but this has been ignored, whatever may be the reasons,” said Kumar addressing an Assocham conference on emerging trends in geospatial technologies.

“Now we have taken up the case with ministry of skill development and we are trying to push forward so that geospatial is recognised as a sector, we are trying to make a case whereby geospatial is recognised either as a sector or a sub-sector,” he added.

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Survey of India is also trying to recognise the job roles, he said. “It is a huge exercise which the industry and government are doing together, so I am sure in a few months time we would be able to conclude, we already had number of meetings.”

Survey of India is also working on a surveyor license bill. “This is again an important activity, we have lot of building plans which are generated by people but they are not recognised or accepted by the government sector because there are no license surveyors, so this is where again we are trying to push so that services and activities in geospatial sectors are totally recognised and co-ordinated very well, it is a long process and I am sure in a short span of time we will be able to do that,” he noted.

Highlighting how survey of India is trying to use emerging technologies to create a very-high resolution database, Kumar said, “We have taken up three important projects with states of Haryana, Karnataka and Maharashtra where we are generating very-high resolution database of 5 cm accuracy using drone.”

Drones have already been procured for these projects, flying has commenced with all permissions taken from concerned ministries, DGCA, ministry of defence and others.

“This 5 cm data is very critical for developmental activities of the land, sanitation, water etc.,” he said adding that considering most states have not been able to update their land records, once there are maps on 1:500 scale across Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka and may be the rest of country will slowly and slowly follow up and India will then have wealth of information which would also lead to changes in land records and the Land Titling Act.

Hoping that India would soon migrate to Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network which has already been implemented world over, he said, “Once we have the CORS network throughout the country, anywhere you stand for a minute, you will get accuracy better than 5 cm.”

He added, “We have already done our homework and we are ready to roll out, I am sure by December it will roll out in parts of the country and may be by next year the entire country will be covered.”

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