GIS is Enabling (“Digital”) “Transformation”. It means end to end service delivery covering work-flows, business activities , processes , competencies and models to fully leverage changes in planning & decision making so that benefits & positive impact and opportunities gets created at all levels of society. It is to be noted that “GIS enabling” is a process “Embedded as Core to “Transformation”. This is what the current practice is adopted by NIC as part of core technology support and service delivery integrated with geo-spatial component for location based e-governance. NIC's Multi-Layer GIS Platform "Bharatmaps" defines such multi-scale and multi-resolution service oriented framework which is leveraging even API based OGC compliant (WMS, WFS etc) Map Services to get integrated with e-governance workflows associated with flagship programmes of Government such as Swatch Bharat Mission, Schools, Telecom, Health, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Rural Development & Panchayti Raj, Roads, Agriculture and so on. In above context as an extension for Future Road Map , the word “Digital” represents Enhanced Technology Solutions with integration of emerging technologies viz. Big Data, Location Intelligence, IOT, Sensor Enablement, Drone, LIDAR etc. with GIS as part of end to end service delivery platform. NIC working towards enhancing the current offerings by scaling up the GIS cloud infrastructure to meet the ever increasing demand for GIS services various levels of Govt both central and State Level. NIC is also collaborating with various e-gov projects to enhance the GIS content and Asset database which may help Ministries and departments to provide enhanced geospatial services to various stakeholders.
