Esri India UC 2023 Conference in India: Tech firm Esri India has launched Policy Maps to facilitate Centre, state governments, enterprises and institutes in data-driven policymaking. The characteristic has been designed to offer significant insights for varied authorities features with a particular concentrate on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Talking on the sidelines of Esri India UC 2023, Agendra Kumar, Managing Director, Esri India, mentioned that geospatial is doing very properly and the corporate is anticipating a development of 20 per cent by way of income.
The Ministry of Science and Technology notified the National Geospatial Policy, 2022 in December final yr with the purpose to advertise the geospatial knowledge trade of India and develop a nationwide framework to make use of such knowledge for bettering citizen companies, and extra.
Expectations from Budget 2023
While Agendra Kumar feels that the geospatial coverage is great, he’s of the view that it must be backed with sure investments. He mentioned that the expectation from the upcoming Budget-2023 would be the allocation of extra funds for the creation of geospatial knowledge.
“We have a very elaborate geospatial policy. But it needs to be backed with certain investment by the government. So, I do hope that they (Centre) will allocate money for various government departments for data creation. The policy has a lot of focus on the creation of new data sets but it will be something very difficult unless money is allocated by the government. So the major expectation is that in terms of capital funding, money goes to different ministries and departments for the creation of geospatial data,” Kumar instructed Zee Business.
Challenges confronted by this sector
The problem this sector, particularly the service firm, faces is that many consumer departments wouldn’t have adequate information to create applicable RFPs and set the factors for analysis and expectations.
“So if some efforts can be done, even if it is done through private-public partnership, in terms of educating the user departments more so that when they come out with the RFPs they articulate their requirements well and define their acceptance criteria well…..In nutshell, education at the user level is important,” he added.