The introduction of GIS methodologies to the Geological Survey of India (GSI)
and other Indian geo-institutes was pioneered in the late 1990s by a project,
Indigeo, that brought ITC and the Maastricht School of Management together in
an initiative supported by The Netherlands government. The project was based in
renovated buildings on the GSI Hyderabad campus and provided training for many
hundreds of earth scientists in its five-year lieftime. In 2012, the GSI
Training School will inaugurate several new buildings - an education block,
auditorium and student residence blocks - to accommodate the burgeoning need
for such training in India.
Colin Reeves visited India in February 2012 and was able to visit the GSI
Hyderabad campus and see something of these developments. He found it very
rewarding to see the vast strides being made and encouraging to know that, from
such small beginnings, a whole new generation of earth scientists will get the
training necessary as the foundation of a career in the service of geology and
the people of India in the age of computer and information technology. The new
buildings are expetced to be opened officially later in 2012.
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