Lt Gen Ashok Kumar Ahuja
The man credited with bringing changes in Survey of
India in the last year of his tenure as Surveyor General.
The concept of National Spatial Data Infrastructure was
mooted in his tenure as the Surveyor General of India.
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Dr P Nag
Dr P Nag has been appointed as the Surveyor General
of India. He was earlier the Director of National Atlas &
Thematic Mapping Organisation. He has made a
significant contribution to the field of mapping and
surveying and authored several books.
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Dr D P Rao
The Director of National Remote Sensing Agency
(NRSA), who dominated the Indian Remote Sensing
scenario for a long time, retired.
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Dr Rangnath Navalgund
The new Director of National Remote Sensing Agency
is also Chair of ISPRS Technical Commission VII on
Resource and Environmental Monitoring.
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Dr Ravi Shankar
The man behind the proposal to create the Ministry of
Earth Sciences, pending with the government for a year
now, retired in year 2001.
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Dr P C Mandal
Senior Deputy Director General, GSI is looking after the
functions of the Office of the Director General, GSI since
December1, 2001.
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Dewang Mehta
The man, who promoted the concept of India as a
software superpower and applied his immense lobbying
skills to the advantage of India, passed away.
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Kiran Karnik
President NASSCOM, till recently was Managing
Director of Discovery Communications India. Karnik has
worked for over 20 years in the Indian Space Research
Organisation.
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