{"id":16776,"date":"2016-10-17T11:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T11:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16776"},"modified":"2016-10-17T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T11:21:45","slug":"mining-surveillance-system-mss-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/mining-surveillance-system-mss-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining Surveillance System (MSS) launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who is the Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New &amp; Renewable Energy and Mines?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) M. Venkaiah Naidu<br \/>\n(b) Nitin Jairam Gadkari<br \/>\n(c) Kalraj Mishra<br \/>\n(d) Piyush Goyal<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 15 Cctober 2016 Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New &amp; Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal launched the Mining Surveillance System (MSS) in New Delhi .<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">MSS is a satellite-based monitoring system which aims to establish a regime of responsive mineral administration, through public participation, by curbing instances of illegal mining activity through automatic remote sensing detection technology.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ministry of Mines, through Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), has developed the MSS, in coordination with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG), Gandhinagar and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY), to use space technology for curbing illegal mining activity in the country.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been developed under the Digital India Programme.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">MSS is one of the first such surveillance systems developed in the world using space technology.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current system of monitoring of illegal mining activity is based on local complaints and unconfirmed information.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no robust mechanism to monitor the action taken on such complaints.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A user-friendly mobile app has been created which can be used by these officials to submit compliance reports of their inspections.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mobile app also aims to establish a participative monitoring system where the citizens also can use this app and report unusual mining activity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Automatic software leveraging image processing technology will generate automatic triggers of unauthorized activities.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">These triggers will be studied at a Remote Sensing Control Centre of IBM and then transmitted to the district level mining officials for field verification.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A check for illegality in operation in conducted and reported back using a mobile app.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The advantages of remote sensing technology based monitoring system are:<br \/>\n1. Transparent (Public will be provided an access to the system);<br \/>\n2. Bias-free and Independent (The system has no human interference);<br \/>\n3. Deterrence Effect (\u2018Eyes watching from the sky\u2019);<br \/>\n4. Quicker Response and Action (The mining areas will be monitored regularly. Sensitive areas will be monitored more frequently);<br \/>\n5. Effective Follow-up (action taken on triggers will be followed-up at various levels like DMG, State Mining Secretary, State Office and Headquarters Office of IBM and Ministry of Mines, GoI).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are in total 3843 mining leases of major minerals in India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out of which, there are 1710 working mines and 2133 non-working mines. Most of the working mines have been digitized.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Efforts for completing the digitization of non-working mines are being made through the State Governments, which would be completed in 3 months\u2019 time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151684\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151684<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who is the Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New &amp; Renewable Energy and Mines? (a) M. Venkaiah Naidu (b) Nitin Jairam Gadkari (c) Kalraj Mishra (d) Piyush Goyal Ans: (d) Related facts: On 15 Cctober 2016 Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New &amp; Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-16776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}