ISRO to help in building ‘smart’ cities: Dr Jitendra

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh receiving a memorandum regarding space related projects from a delegation of Indian Telephone Industry (ITI) Ltd at New Delhi on Sunday.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh receiving a memorandum regarding space related projects from a delegation of Indian Telephone Industry (ITI) Ltd at New Delhi on Sunday.

Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Feb 28: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will help in building “smart” cities through its satellite data and for this purpose, it is collaborating with the Union Ministry of Urban Development by providing large-scale GIS database for 500 towns under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) which include 100 towns under the ambitious Smart City programme announced by Government of India.
This was disclosed here today by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh, while speaking to a delegation of the Joint Forum of officials of Indian Telephone Industry (ITI) Limited, who approached him with the request for wider engagement of the ITI Limited engineers and experts in the upcoming projects of space research and ISRO.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, for the first time, the Department of Space under Prime Minister Modi, was no longer confined only to the launching of satellites but had assumed wider social and economic responsibilities in areas including construction of towns and roads, disaster management, remote sensing and the updated communication networking.
The delegation presented a memorandum to Dr Jitendra Singh wherein it was submitted that ITI Limited, with its cherished historyof being the first Public Sector Unit (PSU) to have been established after independence in 1948, deserves to be given a larger role in various programmes and projects undertaken by the Department of Space, Government of India. The delegation which, primarily comprised of members from ITI Palakkad Unit in Kerala, mentioned their past experience of having manufactured and supplied 70 Mhz receivers and Remote Mounting Safe Arm Assembly (RMSA) used by the Space Department for important satellites like “Mangalyaan” and at present also, they are engaged in assembling the Head Mounting Safe Arm for ISRO at Trivandrum.
The memorandum also urged that the participation of ITI in the ISRO projects can increase, if they are given a bigger role in carrying out the integrated assembly and testing of PSLV sub-assemblies with satellite imaging.
After giving a patient hearing to the delegation, Dr Jitendra Singh said, he would place all the suggestions before the colleagues in the Department of Space and seek their inputs and opinion in the matter.

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