VNIT Nagpur Associates with the MMGEIS Program

fifteenth May 2024, New Delhi, India: The Master Mentors Geo-enabling Indian Scholars (MMGEIS) program, which is the brainchild of Esri India, and the Centre for Knowledge Sovereignty (CKS) was launched in December 2023. On ninth May, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur turned part of this distinctive initiative.

VNIT Nagpur associates with the MMGEIS Program to Empower Students in Geospatial Innovation

Under the purview of the MMGEIS Program, VNIT hosted a sequence of actions aimed toward fostering understanding and collaboration in the realm of geospatial know-how. The varied actions noticed a convergence of educational leaders, business consultants, representatives from prestigious establishments, and college students for data change on geospatial know-how, its applicability, and its significance in modern occasions.

Over 250 college students from VNIT and varied different faculties in Nagpur participated in the actions, the place they acquired the alternative to work together with Shri AS Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman of ISRO, and Chair of the MMGEIS Board. Shri AS Kiran Kumar delivered an enlightening deal with on the applicability of geospatial know-how and its significance in modern occasions.

As a part of the MMGEIS Program, VNIT Nagpur college students may have entry to a number of assets and alternatives to discover geospatial know-how and its purposes. Under the mentorship of consultants in the discipline, college students will achieve sensible expertise and insights that may be utilized throughout varied fields, from city planning to environmental administration.

Agendra Kumar, Managing Director, Esri India, mentioned, “VNIT Nagpur’s collaboration with MMGEIS Program is geared in direction of empowering college students to spearhead geospatial innovation. Through this program, college students may have the alternative to discover the sensible purposes of geospatial knowledge throughout varied domains. As they be taught from tutorial and business consultants, they are going to emerge as leaders who can harness geospatial insights to deal with real-world challenges and drive optimistic change.”

Vinit Goenka, Secretary, Center of Knowledge Sovereignty, mentioned, “We consider in harnessing spatial considering to empower people and nations. Through initiatives like MMGEIS, we attempt to democratize entry to geospatial data, enabling each scholar to turn into a catalyst for optimistic change of their communities and past.”

Dr. P M Padole, Director of VNIT Nagpur, mentioned, “VNIT is at the forefront of know-how innovation, and initiatives like MMGEIS maintain immense potential to empower our college students and function a drive multiplier, considerably boosting capability constructing and fostering a tradition of excellence in geospatial know-how.”

The MMGEIS program goals to interact as much as 5,00,000 college students over the subsequent 5 years and thus can be rolled out in a number of faculties and academic establishments in the close to future. It goals to foster a robust IP framework to allow extra patents from India in its journey in direction of turning into a worldwide geospatial innovation hub.