Tripura Govt signs MoU with NESAC to promote Space Technology Applications
Jul 25, 2022The Tripura government on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the North-East Space Application Centre run by the central government’s Department of Space (NESAC) to promote Space Technology Applications with an ambitious set of 20 projects including satellite mapping for resource mobilisation and utilisation including for early-warning systems for natural disasters.
“We have got projects for disaster management, environment, geology, mining, healthcare, human resource development and employment, surveying, tourism, water resource management etc. Rs. 423.08 lakh will be spent in the next three years for these projects,” Chakraborty told reporters later,” said secretary of science and technology of tripura after signing MoU with the Director of NESAC S P Aggarwal.
Aggarwal said Tripura had rich natural resources and tremendous potential for developing agriculture, horticulture, forest, tourism resources apart from information technology-enabled services for educated youths of the state and that space-based technology inputs would help the state better manage these sectors, apart from setting up disaster management systems.
The MoU was signed as part of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s focus on utilising space technology for development planning and monitoring in the Northeast.
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