NIC Assam State Unit organized a two-day workshop on Geographic Information System (GIS) at its training centre at Beltola on December 29 and 30, 2003. Dr. Anil Kr. Goswami, ex-principal, Cotton College, Guwahati and Chairman, WWF, Assam inaugurated the workshop. Officials from a number of State and Central Government organizations attended the event. The resource persons were from Assam Remote Sensing Application Centre (ARSAC), National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Cotton College, Gauhati University, World Wide Fund and NIC. The workshop intended to familiarize the participants about the capabilities and usefulness of GIS tools and to explore the possibilities of sharing of existing spatial data among the various government organizations.