Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has decided to implement GIS for effective sewerage network speedy services to citizens, planning and maintenance. In order to implement GIS smoothly MCGM has conducted workshop on ‘GIS for Sewer Application’ for sewerage dept. personnel at Worli training center in collaboration with Khagolam Institute of Geoinformatics (KIG). Workshop will open access for municipal engineers to contribute and to gain more active participation in Municipal GIS implementation. Workshop emphasized on basic GIS concept and importance of GIS data in planning and maintenance followed by the demonstration on Municipal web GIS portal and sewerage data collection using handheld GPS. One hundred and twenty officers attended this GIS workshop. Successful implementation shall help citizens for get resolved the complaint quickly. IES College, Bandra has decided to conduct training for M.Arch students on GIS software. Purpose behind this training was to know students about the application of GIS in Planning and how actually GIS works. This training was given by Khagolam Institute of Geoinformatics (KIG).
