Odisha wins Geospatial World Excellence Awards

ONI Bureau:  In another feather to application of technology for transparency in Governance, Odisha has bagged Geospatial World Excellence Award-2018 for successful IT application for tracking of mineral production, dispatch and value accrued on real time basis through its i3MS website based software.

The Award was given by Minister of State Science & Technology, Government of India Y.S. Chowdray in the Geospatial World Forum Meeting held at Hyderabad.

The meeting was attended by more than 3000 geospatial experts from 90 different countries of the World. Dr Pradipta Mishra Senior Scientist of Odisha Space Application Center (ORSAC) received the Award on behalf of Government of Odisha.

Chief Secretary and Chairman of Odisha Space Application Center Aditya Prasad Padhi has congratulated scientists of ORSAC along with officers of Steel & Mines department for successful designing, application and use of this IT model.

Presently, the Steel and Mines department is watching live movement of 43000 vehicles carrying minerals from production point to ports, railway sidings and end user industrial units. It may be pertinent here to mention that Govt of India have also applauded the outcomes of this IT intervention by Odisha and have recommended the model to be followed in other States.