FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces National Geospatial Mission, allocates Rs 100 crore

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman connected Saturday announced a Rs 100 crore National Geospatial Mission to make foundational geospatial infrastructure and data, a determination aimed astatine modernising onshore records, aiding municipality readying and promoting world reflection systems.

Geospatial refers to information associated with a circumstantial determination connected the Earth's surface, which is important for positioning systems and adding layers of accusation connected a map.

"We volition commencement a National Geospatial Mission to make foundational geospatial infrastructure and data. Using PM Gati Shakti, this ngo volition facilitate modernisation of onshore records, municipality planning, and plan of infrastructure projects," Sitharaman said.

The concern curate allocated Rs 100 crore for the National Geospatial Mission.

The announcement of the ngo was welcomed by the geospatial manufacture that said it would beryllium important for gathering smarter cities, with data-driven insights.

"The announcement of the National Geospatial Mission shows the increasing committedness of the authorities to usage the downstream capabilities of the abstraction tech sector," said Lt Gen AK Bhatt (Retd), the Indian Space Association manager general.

"By creating foundational spatial infrastructure, this ngo volition foster unprecedented innovation opportunities for start-ups, enabling them to lick analyzable municipality and agrarian challenges with geospatial intelligence," said Divya Kothamasu, laminitis of N Space Tech, a defence and aerospace start-up.

"The National Geospatial Mission, leveraging the PM Gati Shakti initiative, volition make foundational geospatial infrastructure and information which volition further heighten the inferior of outer exertion for nationalist and nationalist development," said Satcom Industry Association - India manager wide Anil Prakash.

Pixxel Space co-founder Awais Ahmed said the ngo would bolster high-tech home accumulation and reenforce India's planetary leadership.

Esri India managing manager Agendra Kumar said, "Users successful the government, backstage sector, and the manufacture person lived with the deficiency of bully foundational information for a precise agelong time.

I judge this announcement volition supply the indispensable resources to make geospatial information that volition service arsenic a instauration for societal and economical development."