{"id":35671,"date":"2018-11-01T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35671"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:49:52","slug":"gis-enabled-portal-maps-land-related-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gis-enabled-portal-maps-land-related-information\/","title":{"rendered":"GIS-enabled portal maps land-related information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/gis-enabled-portal-maps-land-related-information\/article19487980.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GIS-enabled portal maps land-related information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a little over six months beginning February, the Centre has brought out an online database developed by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the National e-Governance Division in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology as well as the BISAG \u2013 an institute for space applications and geo-informatics under the Gujarat Government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Geographic Information System-enabled database also has details of close to 3,000 industrial parks\/clusters, as well as area-wise availability of agricultural\/horticultural crops, and mineral production.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Information collected by the database:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At present, the database has mapped 539,501 hectares of land and 2,978 industrial clusters\/estates\/parks\/regions\/areas\/corridor\/zones including Special Economic Zones and National Investment and Manufacturing Zones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It currently has specific area-wise details in each state on industrial parks\/clusters, the focus sectors, common facilities available for industry, industrial land in use and available industrial land, approved and pending projects, infrastructure including state\/national highways, airport, ports and railway stations and electricity, Central\/state government incentives, investment\/employment-targets and what has been achieved, range of land sale price and lease\/rent rates, waste disposal facilities, and contact details of nodal officials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The database also has information on the distance from airport\/port to each industrial area\/cluster and a satellite map view of the area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data is available on agricultural crops such as fibre crops, food grains, oilseeds, and so on.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also available are the details of mineral production. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Utility:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This database is initiated in the backdrop of the Centre firming up a new industrial and manufacturing policy to push up the contribution of the manufacturing sector in India\u2019s GDP to 25% by 2020 from the current level of about 16%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim is to make India a global manufacturing hub and in the process generate employment locally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The details on the database about government-approved technical institutions will indicate the availability of skilled and semi-skilled talent.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIS-enabled portal maps land-related information Context: In a little over six months beginning February, the Centre has brought out an online database developed by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the National e-Governance Division in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology as well as the BISAG \u2013 an institute for space&hellip; 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