There is no accurate and uniform data on land resources among the various government agencies. For example, one ministry’s data varies from another ministry.
The National Land Commission Secretariat organised a workshop today to develop an accurate and uniform data sharing platform for government offices and other stakeholders.
Survey and civil engineers, architects, environmental officials, statisticians and ICT officers from different governmental and non-governmental organizations attended the workshop to learn on how to have uniform and correct data sharing platform on land through Geo-Information. This will help the decision makers and policy implementers to take right decisions.
Geo-Information means information and data about geographical landscape which has to be managed under computer system.
“We are basically telling people to have a very standard kind of data basis so that we can talk to each other,” said National Land Commission Secretariat’s Head of Mapping Division, Shankar Sharma. “We don’t want to waste government’s resources in buying expensive satellite images or doing the second time survey of the same area.”
To help the government agencies and other relevant stakeholders to share correct and uniform data, technologies like National Spatial Data Infrastructures will be used.
