In the current phase (2022–2027), survey works of around 8,134 towns are planned with improved and robust versions of mobile, desktop and web-based GIS solutions built on Bhuvan platform.
The MoU was signed by Subash Chandra Malik, Additional Director General, NSSO, MoSPI and Dr Srinivasa Rao S., Deputy Director, BGWSA, NRSC in the presence of Dr Prakash Chauhan, Director NRSC, Dr K. Vinod Kumar, Associate Director, NRSC and Raushan Kumar Choudhary, Deputy Director General (UFS), in New Delhi on Thursday.
UFS is conducted in five-year phases to prepare and maintain a frame of compact urban geographical units, which serve as sampling frame in urban sector, mainly for NSSO large scale socio-economic surveys. The UFS in digital form was carried out for the first time during phase 2017-22 using Bhuvan platform covering more than 5,300 towns. In the current phase (2022–2027), survey works of around 8,134 towns are planned with improved and robust versions of mobile, desktop and web-based GIS solutions built on Bhuvan platform.
The MoU covers development or improvement of mobile application for geo-tagging of NSSO Urban Frame Survey data, web portal for visualization, system generated scrutiny, editing, etc of data submitted through mobile application, QGIS plug-in for accessing the polygons captured through mobile application and fine-tuning of block, IV-unit, ward and town boundaries of UFS using high resolution satellite imagery and capacity building of NSSO officials by NRSC.
This collaboration is aimed at transformation of UFS from analogue to digital mode and helps MoSPI to achieve the targets of updating Urban Frame regularly in a timely manner, MoSPI said in a press release.
