----- Original Message ----- From: "V. Sasi Kumar" vsasi@hotpop.com

The Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India, is

planning to

invest in developing further their GIS called Gram that runs on

Windows.

They are also planning to develop support for local level planning, which included a decision support system. Much of what they are

thinking

of is possibly available in the Free GIS GRASS. I think FSF should

point

this out to the DST and garner support for further developing GRASS,

if

required, for local level development purposes. An extract from

DST's

report is given below:

This is perhaps the tragedy that has been afflicting the project(s) since inception. i feel that it'd be better if their particular needs are identified and then FSFI does provide a comprehensive case for GRASS. thanks for bringing this to the notice of the members.

-sankarshan

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