Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry has launched a prototype of the National GIS-enabled Land Bank System.
The LBS has been launched for six States based on which land can be identified for setting up industries.
The system has been developed by the Integration of Industrial Information System (IIS) with state GIS (Geographic Information System).
IIS portal is a GIS-enabled database of industrial clusters/areas across the states.
On the system, more than 3,300 industrial parks across 31 states/UTs covering about 4, 75,000 hectares of land have also been mapped out on the system.
The information available on the system will include drainage, forest; raw material heat maps (horticulture, agricultural, mineral layers); multilayer of connectivity.
IIS has adopted a committed approach towards industrial upgrading, resource optimization, and sustainability.
The initiative has been supported by the
National e-Governance Division (NeGD),
National Centre of Geo-Informatics (NCoG),
Invest India,
Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG),
Ministry of Electronics and Informational Technology.
