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Komal gupta

10/02/22 13:45 PM IST

Source: PIB

National Natural Resource Management System

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The National Natural Resource Management System scheme has been discussed in the Parliament.

About the Scheme:

  • It is a central sector scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change that acts as a national level interagency system for the integrated management of natural resources.
  • In 1983, the Department of Space acknowledged the need to introduce remote sensing technology in the information system that was regularly used by the resource managers and planners.
  • To infuse technology into the management of resources, the National Natural Resource Management System was launched under the aegis of the then Planning Commission with the National Resource Management Information System (NRIS) as the feeder information system of the government that involves socio-economic information and models.
  • The major objective of the scheme is to promote the usage of remote sensing technology for inventions, assessments and monitoring of the country’s natural resources.

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