Aviation min developing tool to integrate air space, IMD data into Gati Shakti

New Delhi: The Gati Shakti portal will soon have airspace as well as meteorological data as the civil aviation ministry works on a plan to develop a tool aimed at improving infrastructure planning. The aviation ministry is working with Gandhinagar-based Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics to develop the tool, two officials told Mint. “This integration will add strength to infrastructure planning since air space management and meteorological data are increasingly becoming relevant, more so for aviation-related projects,” said the first person cited above, a senior government official who did not want to be identified. India, since the 1980s, has possessed the most advanced real-time satellite weather-gathering capabilities, and making it available for infrastructure planning is a good step," said Mark Martin, founder & CEO of Martin Consulting.