State to ink pact with ISRO

July 23, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 05:56 am IST - Hyderabad:

The Telangana Government and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for water resources information system portal on August 6, according to Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao on Friday. After going through the PowerPoint presentation about the satellite-based portal along with Irrigation Secretary S.K. Joshi and other senior officials, the Minister said that ISRO Chairman Kiran Kumar will be present for the ceremony. The dynamic data once ready will be of great help to the administration as it can keep the planners and the farmers informed about the rainfall forecast, current water availability, crops monitoring and evaluation, etc.

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