The world’s longest and high altitude tunnel, Manali-Leh highway is now fully ready to open in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahul-Spiti district. Named after former Prime Minister of India, Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, this Atal Rohtang Tunnel is built at a 10,000 feet altitude. The tunnel is 8.8-kilometre-long and cuts through the Pir Panjal range in the …
Read MoreAs per the Institute for Management Development report, India’s top 4 smart cities New Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderabad saw a significant drop in their rankings in the global Smart Cities Index 2020. As compared to global Smart City Index 2019, Hyderabad is slipped down from 67 to 85th position, New Delhi from 68th to …
Read MoreThe Uttarakhand Space Application Centre (USAC) has developed a geospatial application to locate Covid-19 infected people in Dehradun. Based on Web-GIS application, this application will prove very crucial for administration in taking crucial decisions like the declaration of containment zones in quick time. Talking to Hindustan Times, MPS Bisht, Director USAC said, “the geospatial application …
Read MoreIndian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working with the Department of Space (DoS) to form Space Enterprise Encouragement and Development (SEED) that will support start-ups and MSMEs in innovation, research and product development. This announcement was made by Dr. K Sivan, Secretary DoS and Chairman ISRO while he was speaking at an International Space conference …
Read MoreThe Uttarakhand forest department has asked officials to use the Geographic Information System (GIS) technique to measure illegal encroachments. The announcement was made by Jai Raj, the head of forest force (HOFF), Uttarakhand forest department. The announcement stated that “encroachment on government land has been increasing continuously in the state, including forest land. It is …
Read MoreUnion Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal e-launched the National GIS-enabled Land Bank system for 6 six states. The system has been developed by the integration of the Industrial Information System (IIS) with the State GIS Systems. Speaking at the virtual summit where the National GIS-enabled Land Bank system was launched Piyush Goyal said, …
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