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(f) envisage that the respective owners can do value addition, resell the data
complying with guidelines, rules and regulations as may be prescribed by
the Government from time to time. This may therefore conform to a BUILD,
OWN, OPERATE (BOO) model.
While it is clear that SOI can’t accomplish the task, still two more questions
need to be addressed. The first one is; why this can’t be done by the private sector
alone? There are also strong reasons for not giving this work entirely to the private
sector. Firstly there are security considerations. The MHA and the MoD are the main
arbiters in security perceptions. The country as a whole consisting of 3.3 million sq.
km has 1.1 million sq km as “restricted areas”, the maps of which can’t be handled
by any private person without express permission of the Government. The NMP,
2005 recognizes and acknowledges this fact. Information as regards the Ground
Control Points (GCP’s) are also important and sensitive information. Any person who
has details of all GCP information can make detailed maps of the country with data
from foreign satellites. Similarly, gravity data, tide data and elevation data has
defence implications. These items of information, important as they are, will be held
by SOI exclusively as part of its sovereign functions and can’t be entrusted with the
private sector. The second question is; how that the work that can’t be done by the
SOI alone or the Private Sector alone can’t do it when working in combination? This
means that it is important to see whether the arrangement leads to a win-win
situation. Consider the following facts. The attractive points for the private sector are
(i) That, the geo-rectified images are given to them free of costs (ii) That, they share
ownership rights of the completed data along with the SOI, which they can either sell
or perform value addition and customization, (iii) That, they do not have to suffer the
process delays associated with obtaining any licence or clearances for undertaking
geospatial data business. As far as SOI is concerned, the advantages are the
following. (i) At half the costs and in a fraction of the time frame, it is ready to
generate a TDDB for the entire country.(ii) There shall be no compromise in
accuracy, since quality control shall be with the SOI. (iii) There shall be no
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