Information Resources and Services in Digital Environment

Bhoop Singh, Director (NRDMS), Department of Science and Technology, government of India, has over 22 years of expertise in formulating a large number of research projects in the areas of disaster management and mitigation and natural resources management in India. He has visited a number of Asian and European Countries on scientific missions to imbible technology know-how in various research programmes on natural disasters in India. He is currently handling a bilateral programme on Geo-hazards (tsunami and landslide) in collaboration with International Centre for Geo-hazards, Oslo, Norway. How he is involved in promoting research programmes on geospatial databases for local level planning and in areas of natural disaster mitigation (especiallyon Tsunami and Landslide) in India.