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Executive and political support
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has opined that the Indian remote sensing programme is inefficient. All the data that could be collected was not collected. It opines that India has developed excess remote sensing capacity due to poor planning resulting from a flawed estimation of the future need of thematic data. It is easy to trash these findings but that will not solve the problem. Parliamentary institutions like the CAG need to be sensitised about technical matters and brought on board the decision making process. A prominent environmentalist states that Indian scientists hold non-scientists in disdain and compound the problem by speaking technical jargon which does not help their cause with institutions like CAG. This is a failing of most technical people who tend to use techno-speak in the mistaken belief that it will impress the audience. It does not work that way and only raises doubts and results in adverse reaction of those who hold the purse strings. Obtaining the support of the executive and politicians is as important as getting the correct data and the best hardware and software for a project.
Prof Arup Dasgupta
arup.dasgupta@gisdevelopment.net |
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