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Council of  Remote Sensing and Geographic Information 
System (PCRGIS) similar to the Pakistan Engineering Council, 
Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners etc. This 
council will be responsible for the following: 
1 
Approve all RS&GIS Courses for all HEC approved public 
and privately owned academic institutions. 
2 
Maintain and upgrade the quality and accreditations of 
RS&GIS courses. 
3 
To design guidelines for issuing membership to the RS & 
GIS graduates and professionals.  
4 
Maintain a data repository of all RS&GIS data for its 
dissemination to all stakeholders at a minimal cost. 
5 
Facilitate the exchange of lab manuals, exercises, teaching 
and other course materials that can be utilized by various 
academic institutions under strict acknowledgment and 
copyright guidelines. 

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Facilitate across institutional and postgraduate level 
supervisory    arrangements under strict guidelines. 
7 
Facilitate in disseminating the research work, consultancy 
and projects originating at national and international 
platforms. 
8 
Build on web based facilitation application so as to provide a 
vehicle to foster collaboration and share information. 
9 
Will seek opportunities to secure funds at national and 
international levels to be used for the dissemination of RS 
and GIS technologies in Pakistan. This could be either in the 
form of conducting intensive training courses or setting up 
capacity building infrastructures at remote and less 
developed areas. 
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The committee also recommended that the individual 
member of the RSGIS Council should be initially selected 
from the current panel responsible for the development of RS 
& GIS curriculum for the BS and MS Program. The main task 
of this Council will be to ensure the implementation of the 
recommendations made in this report. It is also 
recommended that the executive members of this council 
should include renowned educationist / professionals from 
private and public sector universities. These executives will 
be required to develop their own website highlighting their 
educational qualifications and teaching/research experiences 
in the field of remote sensing and GIS. The membership of 
such an advisory body shall take place in a biannual Annual 
General Meeting to review the performance and contribution 
of the executive committee members. The selection will be 
purely based on experience and knowledge of the concerned 
professionals. 
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The PCRGIS agreed that this platform should formulate an 
interim sub-committee with a mandate to:  
1 Craft constitution and detailed guidelines for its 
executive committee membership and election 
procedures. 
2  Determine criteria for full and associate membership 
3  Provide guidelines and time frame for the formal 
incorporation of PCRGIS 

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4 Make recommendations in the HEC sponsored 
workshop of RS and GIS. This is to solely to 
propagate the setup and the underlying objectives and 
the functioning of the PCRGIS at federal and regional 
levels.  
5  The sub-committee shall comprise of all coordinators 
of 4 working groups as well as convener and 
secretary. The members selected for this committee 
are Professor Dr Waqar Ahmad, Dr Jamil Kazmi, 
Professor Dr Amir Khan, Professor Dr Imdad Ali 
Ismaili, Mr Muhammad Nawaz and Mr Mubashar 
Hussain.