The former President of India, Dr. A PJ Abdul Kalam gave away National Awards on Technology to the industrial/individual concern for developing indigenous technology. The awards are instituted by Department of Science and Technology and Department of Bio-Technology. The prize for the year 2012 was awarded to Scanpoint Geomatics Limited, Ahmedabad, Gujarat for indigenous development and commercialization of Integrated GIS and Image Processing Software which IGiS developed jointly in collaboration with Space Applications Center, ISRO, Satellite, Ahmedabad.