Bihar Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit held a review meeting of the Bihar Remote Sensing Application Centre (BIRSAC) on Wednesday and clarified that technical approval from it will now be mandatory before granting financial sanction to DPRs of projects exceeding ₹50 crore.
All departments were directed to strictly comply with this provision, he said.
Giving directions to all departments to ensure systematic and comprehensive utilisation of BIRSAC’s geo-spatial services, Mr. Amrit asserted that integration of BIRSAC’s geo-spatial capabilities into infrastructure planning is essential to make development projects scientific, data-driven, and future-ready.
Departments were instructed to incorporate geo-spatial inputs at the planning stage itself to avoid technical, administrative, and land-related obstacles at later stages.
Under the state’s BIRSAC Geo-Spatial Service Usage Policy, geo-spatial analytics will now be a mandatory component in the DPRs of infrastructure projects costing ₹50 crore or more.
