North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC)

North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC)- Relevance for UPSC Exam

GS Paper 2: Science and Technology- Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.

Union government informed that the North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), Shillong will execute 110 projects in Eight North Eastern States by 2024.
NESAC has coordinated preparation of Plan of Actions (PoA) by the Nodal Departments of the eight States.
These projects are in the domains of Agriculture, Water Resources, Forestry & Ecology, Planning & Development, UAV Remote Sensing and Disaster Management Support, with joint funding from MoDONER, DoS and State Governments.

About: NESAC was established in 2000 to provide space technology inputs and services for the development of the North Eastern Region.
Establishment: North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC) was established by Department of Space jointly with North Eastern Council (NEC).
- NESAC is a society registered under the Meghalaya Societies Registration Act, 1983.
Mandate: NESAC has mandate to develop high technology infrastructure support to play the catalytic role in holistic development of NER of India by providing space science and technology support.

To provide an operational remote sensing and geographic information system aided natural resource information base to support activities on development / management of natural resources and infrastructure planning in the region.
To provide operational satellite communication applications services in the region in education, health care, disaster management support, and developmental communication.
To take up research in space and atmospheric science area and establish an instrumentation hub and networking with various academic institutions of NER.
To enable single window delivery of all possible space based support for disaster management.
To set up a regional level infrastructure for capacity building in the field of geospatial technology.

NESAC has developed and achieved following major milestones for the North Eastern Region including-

Implementation of North Eastern Spatial Data Repository (NeSDR)
Identification of potential areas for development of sericulture & horticulture,
Remote Sensing based forest working plans & river atlas,
Geospatial system for monitoring MoDONER sponsored projects & survey of Record of Forest Rights (RoFR),
Flood Early Warning System (FLEWS) for Assam, and
Training & capacity building, including for professionals from BIMSTEC region
Satellite imaging-based inputs to support settling of border disputes between North Eastern States undertaken as per suggestion of MHA.

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