The National
Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI-V) workshop
“National Spatial Data Infrastructure for
Bharat Nirman” was organized by National
Informatics Centre (NIC) from 18th to 20th December,
2005 at
Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad. The workshop was
inaugurated by Shri Rajeev Ratna Shah, Member
Secretary, Planning Commission and the concluding
session was chaired by Shri V Sampat, Addl Secretary,
Ministry of Urban Development. The workshop mainly
stressed upon the policy and technical issues
related to spatial data, standards and quality
control to ensure interoperability across various
sectors of planning. A number of Heads of Organization
including Surveyor General of India, Director
Forest Survey of India, Director General of National
Informatics Centre and Members of Central Water
Commission attended the workshop. Coordinates
was the media partner of this conference. On the
occassion, the NSDI special issue was released
by Mr Rajeev Ratna Shah.
The workshop discussed various issues in various
technical sessions:
i. Review of NSDI activities;
ii. NSDI for Urban Renewal Mission;
iii. NSDI for Bharat Nirman
iv. NSDI contents and standards
v. NSDI interoperability and OGC
The need for operationalising NSDI expeditiously
has been voiced by all members. At the end of
the workshop, on 20th December, 2005, all the
delegates deliberated and decided to adopt the
Hyderabad Communique as given hereunder :
1. NSDI-V reiterates the Lucknow resolution of
quickly operationalising the NSDI through government
resolutions;
2. Urges the SOI for the quick release of implementation
guidelines for the National Map Policy which has
already been approved by the Cabinet;
3. Further, urges Survey of India, the nodal agency
for the Map Policy, to bring out technical procedures
and mechanisms for the Foundation dataset and
National Spatial Framework;
4. Recommends a national endeavour to generate
and position a new series of 1:10,000 scale maps
for the entire country - which is critical for
locale specific planning and developmental activities
and which will benefit at all levels from the
village/ community to national level;
5. Position policies and structures for NSDI to
evolve a systematic public-private partnership.
The possibility of NSDI as autonomous independent
agency from the government stake holder agencies
which can independently evolve a business model
for NSDI needs to be explored;
6. NSDI should demonstrate and show-case from
conceptual level to all users and data providers
by operationalizing the electronic clearing house
developed with Canadian collaboration. NSDI data
agencies are urged to populate sample data sets
for the clearing house;.
7. Urges all agencies to quickly populate the
metadata as per the established standard and operationalize
it through NSDI clearing house within the next
six months;
8. Develop fast track templates/ procedures for
outsourcing of tasks to private industry and to
provide various solutions and services;
9. Endeavour to integrate and modify the existing
policies for ground survey data, aerial surveys
data, satellite data, topographic/thematic/ census/cadastral
maps and GIS database into a comprehensive and
holistic National Spatial Information Policy which
will provide a over-arching framework for generation,
archiving, utilization and dissemination of all
forms of spatial data in the country;
10. Recognize that the datasets generated in the
private sector have got potential for many applications
and thus be made part of NSDI metadata. The private
industry should quickly come forward to populate
the metadata as per the standard of NSDI which
will reduce duplication of efforts;
11. Urges the NSDI Task Force to continue the
standard definition process for NSDI and further
define Standards for Content, Design, Spatial
Framework, Quality, Exchange and Services etc
for NSDI. Noting the importance and critical need
for land records maps, the Task Force could also
undertake defining standards for cadastral map
and LIS. Further, the Task Force is also urged
to prepare documents related to terminologies
and toponymy for the NSDI. All these efforts would
bring about a common understanding and further
the goals of NSDI;
12. Continue the leadership in various international
organizations such as the GSDI and PCGIAP;
13. Initiate action for a standardized capacity
building endeavour so that the required number
of professionals are available for furthering
the NSDI goals;
14. Constitute a sub group under the Task Force
to study/ assess the legal/policy issues of spatial
data, in the context of NSDI, and come out with
a comprehensive document detailing the legal,
policy and IPR guidelines related to NSDI;
15. The NSDI Task Force is charged to initiate
actions on the above and
coordinate the progress, review and completion
of the actions;
This Hyderabad Communiqué for NSDI is adopted
by 120 delegates from 35 departments/agencies
on 20th day of December 2005.
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