Hisar Space Application Centre to provide satellite

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, AUG 20

 Haryana Space Application Centre (HASRSAC), Hisar is  developing Haryana Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) to provide satellite data and thematic maps to user Departments for Planning and Monitoring of various programs and schemes of the Departments. 

While stating this today, a spokesman Haryana Science and Technology Department said that with this, User Department would be able to access all the available information from HARSAC resources. He said that the project is being supported by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India with grant of Rs 2.03 crore.

He said that the Haryana Space Applications Centre has been doing various projects like Ground Water Prospects Mapping for Haryana, Space Based Information System for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DP), Demarcation of unauthorized colonies, Delineation of paleochannels, Mapping and management of water logging in central Haryana, preparation of police station jurisdiction atlas of Haryana and National Urban Information System (NUIS.

He said that two Centres of Excellence are being set up in the state which include ‘DNA testing and diagnostics facility for research and application in Haryana ‘at Centre for Plant Biotechnology (CPB), Hisar at a cost of Rs.233.85 lakh and ‘Renewable Energy Test centre’ at Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology (DCRUST), Murthal at a cost of Rs.100 lakh. The department has already released Rs. 143.37 lakh to CPB and Rs. 50.00 lakh to DCRUST as a first year grant in this regard.

 He said that the CPB has developed micropropogation protocol for commercial multiplication of brahmi, sugarcane, sarpgandha, mehandi, chrysanthemum, alovera, banana andstevia, bamboo. Presently, five research projects sanctioned by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Haryana State Council for Science and Technology (HSCST), National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development (Novod) Board and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India are in progress at this centre. Also, the centre has been providing training to the students of various institutes in ‘Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology’, he added.