Minutes of Meetings

Proceedings of Inception Meeting of Project Area Mapping through GIS technology under JICA Project awarded to RMSI, Noida held in the Conference Hall, of Aranya Bhavan on the 24th June, 09.


An inception meeting of the Project component, “Preparation of Project area mapping through the GIS technology” awarded to the RMSI, Noida was held in the conference hall of Aranya Bhavan, Agartala on the 24th June, 09 at 4 P.M under the chairmanship of the PCCF Tripura and the list of participants present in the meeting is appended at Appendix I.
The meeting was started with a presentation by Mr Subrato Paul, representative from RMSI, Noida who provided details about the methodology, time schedule, data requirement, deliverables etc for execution of the work assigned to the Organization. The RMSI representative further explained the methodology that shall be adopted and elaborated that the pre-geo-referenced Land Sat images, field based DGPS points as well as other ancillary information would be used as inputs. The Contours and Slope of the project area shall be derived from stereo-satellite ASTER images and thus there shall not be any dependence on topographical maps. And for political boundary information, the RMSI requested for supply of the following maps,
a. Administrative boundary map
b. Forest Administrative boundary map
c. Forest Boundary (Reserve/Protected) map
d. Mauza map at 1”=4 Mile map scale

After the detailed presentation and discussion the following decisions emerged in the meeting,
• 4 sets of maps shall be provided by the CF (WRT) to RMSI by 2nd week of July 2009.
• The Department shall provide 2 staff members from 2nd week 09 of July to help RMSI in visits to the field. The RMSI shall inform in advance the exact schedule of work plan of the field work for DGPS survey and ground truthing for satellite based classification and accordingly the field personnel shall be deployed. This would also develop capacity of the two staff in GPS and Remote Sensing survey work also.
• The deliverables shall be provided in the format where it can be worked upon even after the completion of the project. Since RMSI shall be providing the datasets in shape of files and in raw form so these can also be exported to any other GIS platform readily.
• RMSI shall submit the detailed Plan of Action for entire duration of Project Area Mapping by 30th June 2009.
• The Project Area mapping work shall be taken up over 7023 km2 of the area which is actually the Project area. It does not include district of Dhalai and parts of North Tripura District, which falls within the project area of Indo German Project. Sh. Budhi DebBarma Dy.CF representing the Indo German Project, showed keenness to assign the work of project area mapping to the Firm for the area under the Indo-German project details of which shall be worked out later.
• The RMSI shall submit quotation for the works that shall fall within the Indo-German Project area to the Project executing Head separately.
• The meeting was concluded tanking the PCCF and other Officers present in the meeting.

Appendix I


1. Sh. R.P.Tangwan, PCCF
2. Sh. S.Talukdar, CEO, Tripura JICA project
3. Sh. B.S. Mishra, Dir (P&I), Tripura JICA Project
4. Sh. P.Biswas, Dir. (A&F), Tripura JICA project
5. Sh. A.K.Chakraborty, Add. Dir (EA&M), Tripura JICA Project
6. Sh. C.M.Deb Barma, CCF (Admin) Forest Hd. Qtrs.
7. Sh. S.K.Paul, I/C CF(WRT)
8. Sh. Budhi DebBarma, Dy. CF, Indo-German Dev. Project
9. Sh. Amit Shukla, DFO Sadar
10. Sh. C.K.Das, DFO Direction Division O/o the PCCF Tripura.
11. Sh. Jayanta Saha, ACF
12. Ms Alopti Bhowmik, TO
13. Sh. Soumitra Das, F.R, GIS Lab O/o the PCCF Tripura
14. Ms Anuja Sarkar, IRA GIS Lab O/o the PCCF Tripura


From RMSI Private Limited

Mr Subrato Paul

From the PMC.
1. Mr. S.Tsuji, Team Leader, Tripura JICA Project
2. Mr S.P.Bharadwaj, GIS Specialist, Tripura JICA Project

                                 
 

 

   

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