School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi (SPA New Delhi) is a higher education federal institute established in 1941 and specializing in education and research, and serving as the national center of excellence, in the fields of Planning and Architecture.
It was established by the Government of India for providing quality Architecture and physical planning education. It primarily offer undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive education programs.
Centres
RS
The Centre for Remote Sensing conducts theory and practical courses for various remote sensing related programmes at UG and PG level in the school.
It is presently equipped with basic tools required for Stereovision and aerial photo interpretation, viz. pocket and mirror stereoscopes, parallax bars, aerial photographs, etc.
It also has a couple of image processing software.
GIS
The Centre for GIS was established in 2003 to provide facilities for conducting GIS classes for students from various Department of Studies of the School.
It is equipped with high end hardware equipments and GIS software i.e. Arc View 9.3, Arc Info Universal Lab Kits (Extensions - spatial analyst, network analyst, 3D analyst), ERDAS imagine.
It also conducts training programme from time to time for faculty members on the use and application of GIS Software.
Its facilities are used by the students for hands-on training, academic exercises, research projects and sponsored consultancy projects
Head G.I.S.
Prof. Dr. Rabidyuti Biswas
Professor of Physical Planning
Ph.D.(IITR)M.R.P., B.E. (Civil)
AITP, AIE, MISRS, MIUT
(
r.biswas@spa.ac.in )
Junior System Analyst
Shanti Swaroop
B.Sc (Computer Sc.)
Advanced Network Management
(s.swaroop@spa.ac.in)
Junior System Analyst
Jagdish Kumar
B.Sc.(Computer Sc.), M.Sc (Maths)
(jagdeesh.kumar@spa.ac.in)
Abhishek Jain
B.Tech
(abhispa@spa.ac.in)
CASS
CASS plays an important role in the discharge of the School's academic functions since 1980's. It has been developed as the main communication center. It is equipped with servers, workstations, plotter, scanner, printers etc.
Some of the important tasks include:
Providing internet facilities within SPA
Maintaining School Website
Providing technical and maintenance support to all the Departments of Studies/Centres/units in their day to day functioning of computer related activities.
Facilitate technical support & assistance in conducting classes, workshops and training programmes.
Responsible for Sever Management
Ensuring virus free environment in computer labs
Managing the UG/PG Admission Process
It has a number of software such as SPSS Statistics, Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis, and Primavera Contractor.
Providing Academic, Non-Academic Resources to the Faculty, Students and Staff members through FTP server
Head CASS
Prof. Dr. Rabidyuti Biswas
Professor of Physical Planning
Ph.D.(IIT Roorkee),M.R.P.(IIT Kharagpur), B.E. (Civil)
FITP, AMIE, MISRS, MIUT
(
r.biswas@spa.ac.in )
Junior System Analyst
Shanti Swaroop
B.Sc (Computer Sc.)
Advanced Network Management
(s.swaroop@spa.ac.in)
Jagdish Kumar
B.Sc.(Computer Sc.), M.Sc (Maths)
(jagdeesh.kumar@spa.ac.in)
Abhishek Jain
B.Tech
(abhispa@spa.ac.in)
Contact Detail:
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
4-Block-B, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi 110002
Ph. +91 011 - 2370 2375, 2370 2376
Fax. 011 - 2370 2383
