We complain about increasing heat, floods, prices of crops but we don’t blame ourselves for developing buildings on agricultural land, leaving no space for trees and covering up water bodies. It is time to wake up and take a turn back to our initial ways of planning.
This was stated by chief guest and architect Prof Sudhir V Thakur from Ahemdabad at Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science on Friday. He was delivering a lecture on role of remote sensing and geographical information system in planning at the 18th Prof D G Dhawalikar Memorial Lecture and gold medal presentation function.
He said Indian cities were well-planned. India has one of the best planned cities compared to what the US, Canada, Turkey, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Dubai, Oman and Bhutan had in earlier times. “However, with rapid urbanisation, we started developing cities without thinking, planning. This is the main reason behind increasing natural disasters especially flooding, climate change and soil erosion,” Thakur said.
Speaking about remote sensing, he said, “We click photographs from an aircraft and even use photographs from satellite that are regularly capturing earth’s surface,” Thakur said. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries, analyse spatial information, edit data in maps.
Gold medallists
Devika Puja Garg: Final year civil topper 2018
Sandeep Latoriya: Highest scorer in structural engineering 2018
