Come September, and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start mapping over 500 towns and cities to make a base plan for better planning and management.
This base plan will further help the town planners to prepare a master plan for many fast urbanising local bodies. The mapping is being currently done for municipal local bodies with a population of more than a lakh. The project follows after ISRO and Urban Development Ministry joined hands in this regard. “We have tied up with the Ministry of Urban Development to map over 4,041 areas.
After mapping these cities and towns, we can prepare a base plan. This can help urban planners prepare a better master plan,” said VK Dadhwal, Director of ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre, on Wednesday. He was speaking at a news conference held to elaborate on additional features incorporated in Bhuvan, country’s geo-platform launched in 2009.