Kalpana Chawla Chair on Geospatial Technology for Indian Railways

Q.  Kalpana Chawla Chair on Geospatial Technology for Indian Railways has been setup in
- Published on 31 May 16

a. Chandigarh
b. New Delhi
c. Bengaluru
d. Hyderabad

ANSWER: Chandigarh
 
  • “Kalpana Chawla Chair” will be setup at at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh as she is an alumnus of the institute.
  • The objective of this chair is to encourage research activities in Geo-spatial Technology and to strengthen Indian Railways especially Railway projects where use of remote sensing data , global positioning system (GPS) and Geographical information System (GIS) is predominant.
  • This will immensely help Indian Railways to develop in house solutions to the problems which are often outsourced to western countries.

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