Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 25: Special Secretary, Housing Mohammad Akbar Ganai inaugurated day-long State level workshop on Master Plan “Formation of GIS based Master Plan using Bhuvan-NUIS” here today.
The workshop was organized by Town Planning Organization, Kashmir in collaboration with Town & Country Planning Organization, Union Ministry of Urban Development and National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad.
The Special Secretary stressed the need for adopting the NUIS tools and methods in an effective way while preparing the Master Plan for the cities and towns of the state. He also called for proper implementation of Master Plan on ground, saying that plan on paper is not sufficient. He said that the strategy for preparation of Plan for the cities and towns should be envisioned for long run.
Referring to National Urban Information System (NUIS), the Special Secretary said that it is a Thematic Geospatial database scale prepared from high resolution satellite data for towns and cities, as basic spatial input for Master Plan preparation. He called for effective utilisation of these database elements to provide the access of the NUIS towns’ geospatial databases to the Urban Local Bodies through Bhuvan Geoportal, developed by NRSC/ ISRO.
Director, Local Bodies, Hilal Parray also spoke on the occasion, saying that NUIS is a new domain dealing with the problems erupted due to rapid urbanization. He said that the participants would also get benefitted with the deliberations held during the workshop.
NUIS- a web based geospatial framework and software tools designed and developed on Bhuvan platform for effective online use of remote sensing satellite data, GIS map layers, its updation and analysis framework for the preparation of Master Plans.
Among others, Chief Town Planners, Kashmir and Jammu Divisions and officers of Housing and Urban Local Bodies attended the workshop.
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