Open Source GIS Day & National Geospatial Awards 2025 (Edition 02)
The following officials and the Bhuvan geoportal team of NRSC received awards during the Open Source GIS Day & National Geospatial Awards 2025 (Edition 02) event held at Prof. B. Nag Auditorium, IIT-Bombay on 17-Jul-2025.
1. Best Geospatial Platform - Bhuvan Geoportal Team
2. National Geospatial Leadership Award - Dr S K Srivastav
3. National Geospatial Leadership Award - Shri Abdul Hakeem K
4. National Geospatial Professional Fellow (ISRO) Award - Shri M. Arulraj
5. Women of Excellence in Geospatial Science & Technology - Ms Kamini J
6. Women of Excellence in Geospatial Science & Technology - Ms Stutee Gupta
The second edition of the National Geospatial Awards 2025 is organized by the GIS vertical of the FOSSEE project, IIT Bombay, under the aegis of the National Mission on Education through ICT, Ministry of Education, Government of India, which promotes the usage of Free/ Libre Open Source Software in academia and industry across India. The main objective of IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS is to spread awareness of Open Source-based Geospatial Software, promote Indian satellite data (ISRO - NRSC’s Bhuvan, Vedas, MOSDAC, Bhoonidhi Portals), and indigenous Indian technologies like NavIC (ISRO-SATNAV), etc. The FOSSEE GIS project, IIT Bombay (since 2020) has conceptualized and initiated dozens of nationally coveted, flagship activities which include but are not limited to, the IIT Bombay FOSSEE Geospatial Mapathon (the world’s biggest geospatial mapping challenge), National Geospatial Internship, National Geospatial Research Fellowship, National Geospatial Awards, domain-specific (medicine, agriculture, maritime) GIS Hackathons, National GIS Case Studies, etc, all of which aligns with the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP2020), the National Geospatial Policy 2022 (NGP2022), the Indian Space Policy 2023 (ISP2023). The niche open-source geospatial offerings by FOSSEE GIS, in Medical GIS (One Health), Artificial Intelligence, Green Energy and Sustainability (Electric Vehicle), Under Ocean Exploration, Waste to Wealth, and Rural Development are inspired by various interdisciplinary national missions and programs. (Source: https://fossee.in/gis/awards)
