IIIT Allahabad organises two-week summer school on geospatial science & technology
The technology institute has organized the summer school with the support of the National Geospatial Programme, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) has commenced a two-week-long summer school on geospatial science and technology at the Jhalwa campus on Monday. The technology institute has organized the summer school with the support of the National Geospatial Programme, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
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While speaking on the commencement of the summer school, senior scientist from DST, New Delhi, Sudha Pandey talked about the adoption of new information regime by India for sustainable economic growth through its ‘Digital India’ programme to support good governance, sustainable development goals and empowerment of its citizens.
According to HT, Pandey further added that over the last three decades, the widespread adoption of geospatial technologies into various sectors has proven to be an effective enabler to meet these challenges.
National Geospatial Programme (NGP) initiated the capacity building programme
IIIT-A is being coordinated by Triloki Pant. Speaking on the occasion, Pant said that the National Geospatial Programme (NGP) had initiated the capacity building programme to develop national capacity for geospatial science and technology development through diverse programmes in collaboration with various partner organisations’ adaptation capacity of geospatial science and technology across the country. The objective of the programme is to build knowledge at various levels of governance in collaboration with academia and user agencies, he added.
Professor Anupam Agarwal, Professor OP Vyas and Professor Pawan Chakarborty also spoke at the inaugural ceremony of IIIT Allahabad summer school on geospatial science and technology. Dr KP Singh proposed the vote of thanks.
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