Objective
The aim of this program is to build awareness about GIS technology among water resources professionals and make them capable of creating basic GIS Maps using Open Source GIS software (QGIS). This training would enable the water professionals to map the irrigation assets like canal network, various civil structures, irrigation command boundary, administrative jurisdiction, rivers, reservoirs, settlements, transportation networks and present the data in a GIS Map format. The program has been designed in such a way that the participants during the training period will have to devote only about two/three hours daily, as per his/her convenience.