Abstract
Abstract. Many initiatives around the world are emphasising to strengthen the capacities of civil society and local governments to build resilience towards the context of urban planning. The Indian cities are experiencing rapid growth with share of country’s urban population increasing from 27% in 2001 to 32% in 2011. Majority of this growth has taken place in an unplanned and haphazard manner, the ill-effects of which are manifested in the form of poor quality of urban life. In order to ensure a planned development, the Govt. of India has launched the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) Mission which has a sub-scheme on ‘Formulation of GIS Based Master Plan for AMRUT cities’.In order to Achieve these ambitions, and realising the potential for cities to contribute effectively to addressing the challenges of development, will require new skills and competencies towards technological advancements and their application within individual households, urban communities, formal civil society, and municipal governments. To this end, North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), Umiam, Meghalaya in association with Town & Country Planning Organization, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Govt. of India, initiated the training programme on “Formulation of GIS Based Master Plans”. The training programmes inculcates on the use of GIS and Remote sensing techniques for the formulation of Master Plans through a Tier based Approach with a vision to entrench existing relationships and to achieve more transformative change that meets the needs of all urban residents.
Highlights
1.1 Need for the studyUrbanization and urban planning need to act in a cohesive manner in order to address the progressive concentration of population in urban unit
Urban Local bodies are constantly facing extreme difficulties in order to plan for sustainable urban development and are confronted with a number of problems, such as data unavailability, ineffective participation in the decision-making process, delays in the transfer of funds to the urban local bodies despite constitution of State Finance Authorities, poor recovery from various tax and non-tax sources despite devolution of power and lack of trained human resource in the use of new technology of GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing
The Training module was found useful and new, and the overall reaction to the training programmes was positive, yet it was suggested that the training modules should give direct examples from the day-to-day functioning
Summary
Urban Local bodies are constantly facing extreme difficulties in order to plan for sustainable urban development and are confronted with a number of problems, such as data unavailability, ineffective participation in the decision-making process, delays in the transfer of funds to the urban local bodies despite constitution of State Finance Authorities, poor recovery from various tax and non-tax sources despite devolution of power and lack of trained human resource in the use of new technology of GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing. There is an urgent need to adopt modern technology of remote sensing which includes both aerial as well as satellite based systems, allow us to collect lot of physical data rather with speed and on repetitive basis, and together with GIS helps us to analyze the data spatially, North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), Umiam, Meghalaya in association with Town & Country Planning Organization, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Govt. The training programmes include handson training on the use of GIS softwares including open source GIS/RS technologies, data-base generation and updation for the formulation of Master Plan
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