India’s ₹50,000 crore geospatial market is set to double to nearly ₹1.06 lakh crore by 2030: Amitabh Kant

The four-day GeoSmart World Conference & Expo 2025 commenced with a powerful welcome address that reflected on India’s remarkable transformation in the geospatial and space ecosystem. The opening remarks emphasised that India’s journey has been “explosive, purpose-driven, and marked by reforms that have redefined how the nation maps, measures, and manages its growth.”

During the special address, Amitabh Kant underscored that the ₹50,000-crore geospatial market doubling by 2030 and the USD 44-billion projection for India’s space economy by 2033 must serve as a catalyst for far greater ambition. He stressed that India’s aspiration of a USD 30-trillion economy demands exponential growth in innovation, data accessibility, and public–private collaboration.

Kant stated “We opened up the geospatial sector in 2021 after overcoming strong resistance. The potential today is huge, but innovation must move at the pace of India’s ambition. Geospatial technologies are ...