J&K Education
J&K government completes GIS mapping of all schools
Srinagar/IBNS: The School Education Department has completed the Geospatial Information System (GIS) mapping of all the government and private schools in J&K.
The GIS mapping was done to identify the geographical locations of all the existing schools and establish new schools in un-served areas as per the availability of schools in the adjacent areas.
As per the official document, besides completing GIS mapping of schools, the government has established a GIS portal which was e-inaugurated by the Lieutenant Governor earlier.
The GIS is one of the most important contributions of modern technologies and serves as a prospective and powerful visual dimension to data through maps facilitating communication and discourse among different stakeholders.
GIS tools enabled the creation of theme-based or thematic maps based on data stored in a database or data set.
“GIS mapping allows the user to visualize and analyze spatial information in an innovative manner that reveals previously hidden relationships, patterns and trends,” an official said.
In the School Education Department, GIS mapping of schools helps in displaying different grades of schools within a given radius and to be used as an MIS tool for viewing infrastructure and enrollment details of the institutions besides the ICT and smart classroom, vocational laboratories and resource rooms.
Sources earlier said that the J&K government will now get new government-run primary and upper primary schools only based on Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping of all existing schools.
“Now onwards, the construction of new schools under the Samagra Shiksha (erstwhile SSA) will be decided only based on GIS mapping in order to ensure distribution of schools properly on the basis of requirement,” the official said.
As per the standing norms of the government, a primary school should be available at a distance of every kilometre and a middle school at every 3 km while a high school at every 5 km.
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