Campuses Mapped by the Government The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed a mobile application for uploading geo-tagged photographs and associated details captured by the educational institutions, on Bhuvan-RUSA portal as a part of implementation of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) funded works. This application for geo-tagging of institutions under RUSA is a location based service. The total number of points of RUSA funded works that have been geo tagged by the higher educational institutions till date is 4176 in 32 States/UTs. These points are reviewed at the State level and the National Mission Directorate for acceptance. The geographic coordinates of schools are uploaded on the school GIS Web enabled platform i.e. http://schoolgis.nic.in. The objective of the web enabled platform on school information containing both Spatial and Non Spatial data is to improve the quality of planning and better utilisation of resources. Against total of 15,22,925 schools (as per UDISE 2015-16), 11,89,883 schools have been mapped as on 30.06.2016. The mobile geo tagging App of RUSA covers the following attributes: construction work or equipment, institution name, new or upgraded work, type of work, current stage of work, percentage completed, completion date, bank name, account number, amount released and amount utilised. This information was given by the Minister of State (HRD), Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey today in a written reply to a Lok Sabha question.
