Hon’ble Minister of State, PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh, inaugurated a National Workshop on “Space-based Information Support for Decentralised Planning-2”, a unique initiative that plans to provide satellite image based scientific information for Gram Panchayat development in the country. This new initiative is jointly taken up by Ministry of Gram Panchayat and Department of Space, ISRO to reach out to the nuke and corner of the country, touching every village panchayat across the nation.
Key Points:
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The portal uses high-resolution data from recent earth observation satellites and offers detailed information to panchayats about their key assets.
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For the first time, the thematic maps of 1:10,000 scale have been generated based on high-resolution data given by Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) new earth observation satellites.
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While Hon’ble Minister of State PMO, who was the chief guest on the occasion, released the “Bhuvan-Panchayat” Geoportal, Technical documents of this new initiative and delivered a key-note address, Shri Sunil Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Dr K Sivan, Secretary, Department of Space & Chairman, ISRO and Shri R Umamaheswaran, Scientific secretary, ISRO delivered special address on the occasion. The workshop had the participation of States / UTs, State Remote Sensing Application Centers across the country, Senior dignitaries of Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Rural & Panchayat Development Departments, Senior officers of NIC, NITI Aayog, Scientists of DOS/ISRO and many other senior Government officials of the States.
The workshop laid special emphasis on the 73rd and 74th constitution amendments of 1993 which has a focus towards decentralization of planning to better help in the local governance at village panchayat level.
The initiative is taken up with a clear focus on addressing the grass-roots with regard to scientific inputs for planning and development, so that the Panchayat Raj institutions could effectively use space technology for planning, implementation, monitoring and management of resources, including governance.
Background:
Bhuvan, as a platform, is open and can be used by a diverse user community such as Central and State Governments Departments, Academia and Industry.
Few examples are:
Bhuvan-Bhujal: Ground Water Prospects Information System
School Bhuvan: An e-learning portal for the students
ENVIS program of Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change
Bhuvan Ganga: Enables people participation in providing vital information for Clean Ganga project
Srishti-Drishti: An Integrated Watershed Development Program
Hon’ble Minister of State, PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh, inaugurated a National Workshop on “Space-based Information Support for Decentralised Planning-2”, a unique initiative that plans to provide satellite image based scientific information for Gram Panchayat development in the country. This new initiative is jointly taken up by Ministry of Gram Panchayat and Department of Space, ISRO to reach out to the nuke and corner of the country, touching every village panchayat across the nation.
The portal uses high-resolution data from recent earth observation satellites and offers detailed information to panchayats about their key assets.
For the first time, the thematic maps of 1:10,000 scale have been generated based on high-resolution data given by Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) new earth observation satellites.
While Hon’ble Minister of State PMO, who was the chief guest on the occasion, released the “Bhuvan-Panchayat” Geoportal, Technical documents of this new initiative and delivered a key-note address, Shri Sunil Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Dr K Sivan, Secretary, Department of Space & Chairman, ISRO and Shri R Umamaheswaran, Scientific secretary, ISRO delivered special address on the occasion. The workshop had the participation of States / UTs, State Remote Sensing Application Centers across the country, Senior dignitaries of Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Rural & Panchayat Development Departments, Senior officers of NIC, NITI Aayog, Scientists of DOS/ISRO and many other senior Government officials of the States.
The workshop laid special emphasis on the 73rd and 74th constitution amendments of 1993 which has a focus towards decentralization of planning to better help in the local governance at village panchayat level.
The initiative is taken up with a clear focus on addressing the grass-roots with regard to scientific inputs for planning and development, so that the Panchayat Raj institutions could effectively use space technology for planning, implementation, monitoring and management of resources, including governance.
Background:
Bhuvan, as a platform, is open and can be used by a diverse user community such as Central and State Governments Departments, Academia and Industry.
Few examples are:
Bhuvan-Bhujal: Ground Water Prospects Information System
School Bhuvan: An e-learning portal for the students
ENVIS program of Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change
Bhuvan Ganga: Enables people participation in providing vital information for Clean Ganga project
Srishti-Drishti: An Integrated Watershed Development Program
