Commerce and Industry Minister Shri Piyush Goyal e-launched the National GIS-enabled Land Bank system.
Salient Features
-The system is being developed by integration of Industrial Information System (IIS) with State GIS Systems.
-Project was launched for 6 states.
-This is a prototype only and will be developed further with inputs from states, to make it an effective, transparent mechanism of land identification and procurement.
-IIS portal is a GIS-enabled database of industrial areas/clusters across the states.
-More than 3,300 industrial parks across 31 States/UTs covering about 475,000 hectare land have been mapped on the System.
-Information available includes forest, drainage; raw material heat maps (agricultural, horticulture, mineral layers); multiple layers of connectivity. National GIS-enabled Land.
-The IIS adopts a committed approach towards resource optimization, industrial upgradation and sustainability.
-The initiative is being supported by Invest India, National Center of Geo-Informatics (NCoG), National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG).
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