ITANAGAR, Jan 21: Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein has stressed on the need for creation of assets in the state that would be useful for the future generations.
Mein said this while chairing a meeting on the establishment of a state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Science & Technology in the state capital. “In this age of advanced technology and innovation, we need to have a CoE where people from different disciplines can come together and share facilities/resources. The proposed CoE for S&T, if established will facilitate government departments, communities, academicians and students to share knowledge and skill through education, outreach programmes and training,” he added. 
Minister of Science & Technology Honchun Ngandam while seeking funds from the state government for establishing the CoE said it would cater to the needs of all departments in a better way since they have been using S&T already in functioning. While informing that a plot of land allotted to the Department of S&T is lying vacant at the hub in the capital, he advocated for its utilisation to avoid encroachment in near future. Director S&T  C D Mungyak while presenting the proposal through a PowerPoint Presentation informed that the proposed CoE will be having the facilities to integrate state-of-the-art Remote Sensing (RS), Geographical Information System (GIS) and  
Global Positioning (GPS) technologies with on-the-ground knowledge of ecosystems and natural resource management to address relevant issues. Along with providing core geospatial dataset (administrative boundaries, road, railway and major settlement etc.) to all the departments in the state, the centre will also help in generating geospatial datasets and create user friendly applications through web-enabled distribution to serve as an effective tool for decision making, planning, implementation and monitoring purposes, he added.
Chairman, S&T Bamang Mangha, Principal Secretary (Finance) A C Verma, Commissioner (Planning & Investment) Prashant Lokhande, Secretary (Finance) Y W Ringu, Director (Planning) Pallab Dey and Development Officer (HUDCO, Itanagar) D Sonowal also attended the meeting. DCM Media Cell

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