The National Geospatial Awards 2024 (Edition 01) is an initiative of the FOSSEE (GIS) project, IIT Bombay which is organised under the aegis of the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), Ministry of Education, Government of India. The key objectives of the ‘National Geospatial Awards 2024’ are to honour the enablers of Geospatial Technology in India, cutting across professions (Institutions, Faculty, Industry professionals, Individuals) of open-source geospatial communities in India and across the world.
The main awarding ceremony was on September 15, 2024, at Prof. B. Nag Auditorium, IIT Bombay. As a part of IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS’s National Geospatial Awards 2024, a separate category of awards has given to the Universities and Colleges of the multi-award-winning Spoken Tutorial project, IIT Bombay.
Among all participating institutions, MVJ College of Engineering, our distinguished institution from Bangalore, Karnataka, has achieved the top ranking. It is the sole college in the state to receive the prestigious Best Spoken Tutorial Institution Award for Promoting Geospatial Technology.