Geomatics education : a rising sector for value addition in HRD in Nepal
Sharma, Keshav
The development approach of the 21st century is focusing the general people in line with the agendaas adopted by Millennium Development Goals (MDGGs). In the global context, it is trying to address to put efforts for poverty alleviations and to raise livelihood of the people in developing nations. So it is crucial to rethink or reinvent the development vision of such countries like Nepal. The strategies should be designed to leap and come up with the pace of developed countries, not always fall behind but to walk hand in hand. The only magical tool to take off the development actions is no other than education that directs to social transformation. Every development activity depends upon sound policy, appropriate technology and reliable and accurate information system. The spatial information provides the essential and adequate grounds for overall development activities and the base of the spatial information is Geomatics science. So the nation is in strong need of efficient and able geo-professional human resources to translate its deeper commitment and willingness to fully comply with the new technologies into a living reality and which can be only possible through quality Geomatics education. The applications of the Geomatics science plays a pivotal role and offer the great functionality, as a science of visualization for the geo-spatial information related to almost all of the disciplines. The use, application and professional marketing of the Geomatics education are the urgent need to be addressed. It has numerous applications even in government activities from regulatory functions such as law and order maintaining, crime control and conflict management to various development functions.
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