Programme Schedule (Read online the papers to be presented in the conference)

October 18, 2000 08.00 hrs onwards Registration 09.30 – 11.00 hrs Inauguration and Opening Ceremony Welcome Address Kuldeep Rai, Joint Secretary, Dept. of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development Lighting of Lamp Chief Guest Introductory Remarks J. K. Banthia, Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India Keynote Address 1 Chandrasekhar Nori, Managing Director, Speck Systems Limited Keynote Address 2 Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, Chief Counsellor, Department of Lands and Mapping, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, Hungary Inaugural Address Chief Guest Vote of Thanks Ravi Gupta, Director CSDMS     11.00 – 11.30 hrs Inauguration and Visit to the Exhibition and Tea Break 11.30 – 13.00 hrs Session I - LIS – Past, Present and Future Chair S. K. Bhan, Dy. Director, National Remote Sensing Agency 11.30 hrs LIS in India - Perspective and Restrospective, M. Gopal Rao, Director, Digital Mapping Centre, Survey of India 11.50 hrs Land Management System in India-Past, Present and Future Vinay Thakur, Ganesh Khadanga, D. S. Venkatesh, D. R. Shukla , LRISD, NIC, New Delhi 12.10 hrs Land Information System in the present day Context V. B. Potdar, Executive Consultant, Theovel Surveys 12.30 hrs Cadastral Surveys in India – A critique Prabhakar Mishra, Consultant, Kampsax India Ltd     13.00 – 14.00 hrs Lunch 14.00 – 16.00 hrs Session II A – Rural Land Records Chair D. K. Bhalla, PS to the Minister of Woman and Child Development 14.00hrs Digitisation of Cadastral Maps -A case study for Uttar Pradesh V. N. Channa, IAS Officer and Avneesh Gupta, Scientist, NIC, Board of Revenue 14.30 hrs Land Information Systems-Need, Constitutional and Scientific Diagnosis with Reference to Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Girish Chandra Chowdhary, Dept. of Geology, BHU, Varanasi. 15.00 hrs GIS Application in UP Bhumi Sudhar Nigam, Rakesh Kumar Thakur, Sr. Dy. Manager (GIS), UPLDC     16.00 – 16.30 hrs Tea Break 16.30 – 18.00 hrs Session II B - Rural Land Records: Some Applications Chair P. V. S. Madhusudan Rao, Head, Central Survey Office, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh 16.30 hrs Top-Down Approach for Generating Spatial Database At Cadastral Level - A Sikkim Himalayan Experience Saurabh Gupta & Syed Taha Owais,NIC Sikkim 16.55 hrs Integrated, Participatory, Seasonal Observations for Land Systems Rajeswari S. Raina, NISTADS Anand Sharma & Zia Mohammed, IPSOS Project 17.20 hrs Land Information System and Rainfed Agriculture L. R. A. Naraynan, Consultant     18.00 – 19.00 hrs MockTail 19.00 – 20.00 hrs Exhibition Reception and Dinner     October 19, 2000 09.00 – 11.00 hrs Session III – Urban Land Records Chair Afroz Ahmad, Director, Narmada Authority Control 09.00 hrs Land InformationSystems for Muncipal Planning A. P. Subhudi, B. S. Sokhi & P. S. Roy, IIRS, Dehra Dun 09.20 hrs Systematic Land Information Management System' for Urban Centers in India – Kanpur Mapping Project S. D. Baveja, Managing Director Riding Consultant Engineers-India and Jamil Ahmad, DPM Kanpur 09.40 hrs Land Information of Durgapur Area with focus on Industrial Usage Sushmita Ghosh, Govt. College, Durgapur 10.00 hrs Computerisation of Urban Land records- case study for City Survey land records of Ahmedabad District, Gujarat state Rakesh Halari, Project Manager, NESTEC Solutions 10.20 hrs Adoption of GIS Technology in Land Use Planning for Development Authority, Tapas Ghatak, Sr. Geophysicist, CMDA, Govt. of Bengal     11.00 – 11.30 hrs Tea Break 11.30 – 13.00 hrs Session IV – Technology Trends for Developing LIS Chair Chandrasekhar Nori, Managing Director, Speck Systems Limited 11.30 hrs Role of Modern technology in developing Cadastral LIS S. V. S. Sastry & Y.S. Swaroop, Geotech Datamatics, Ahmedabad 11.50 hrs Integration of satellite survey techniques with Land record data and web-based Service delivery Systems on a GIS platform--- A Pilot Project Sanjay Dixit, Special Secretary Revenue, Govt. of Rajasthan, Jaipur 12.10 hrs The Role of Technology - Total Stations, GPS and GIS in Land Information System Sanjeev Gandhi, Leica Geosystems Ltd. 12.30 hrs LIS - Issues, Technologies and Standardization T. Raja Rao & P. Raj Sekhar , Computer Vision Laboratories (India) Pvt. Ltd. 12.50 hrs GIS , GPS & Land Information System Alok Sharma and Navdeep Kaur, RMSI, Noida     13.30 – 14.30 hrs Lunch 114.30 – 16.00 hrs Session V – Policy Issues in LIS Chair   14.30 hrs National Land Information System Policy Issues P.K.Rajkhowa, Business Development Manager Ramtech Corporation Limited 15.00 hrs Legal, Political, Technical and Commercial Issues of Land Information Systems J. S. Ahuja, Chief Consultant, ORG GIS 15.30 hrs National Policy on Land Records P. V. S. Madhusudan Rao, Head, Central Survey Office, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh     16.00 – 17.00 hrs Discussion / Recommendations 17.00 – 18.00 hrs Valedictory and Closing Ceremony 16.00 – 18.00 hrs Tea