GIS technology made its beginning in Bangladesh in 1991 through ISPAN (Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East) for the FAP-19 (Flood Action Plan-19) Project. The organisation is now named as EGIS (Environment and GIS support projects for water sector planning). At the beginning there were only a few GIS installations, most likely numbering nine, in Bangladesh. Besides, the use of GIS was confined to the government offices only. There was extreme lack of GIS experts and personnel. Most of the GIS installations were run by foreigners. As a result, GIS use in Bangladesh was essentially expensive. LGED (Local Government Engineering Department) was first to use it in its different operations.
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