Esri India, Autodesk Team Up to Accelerate Infrastructure Excellence in India

New Delhi, December 18, 2025: Esri India, the country’s leading Geographic Information System (GIS) technology provider, has partnered with Autodesk, a global leader in design and engineering software, to drive integrated, smart infrastructure development in the country. This collaboration brings together Esri India’s powerful geospatial analytics capabilities with Autodesk’s advanced Building Information Modelling (BIM) and design tools, enabling infrastructure stakeholders to work with a unified, geo-enabled workflow.

At the recently concluded ‘INFRAVERSE 2025’ event, hosted by CS TECH Ai, Autodesk and Esri India came together to showcase how BIM–GIS integration can strengthen the delivery of infrastructure across water, urban, utility, and transport networks. Enriching technical sessions at the event demonstrated how, by integrating GIS with BIM, projects can run more effectively, and assets can perform better over their lifecycles. The convergence of GIS and BIM (GeoBIM) can transform the full infrastructure lifecycle from planning to operations.

Agendra Kumar, Managing Director, Esri India, said, “Our strategic collaboration with Autodesk marks a pivotal step in realising infrastructure excellence in India. By seamlessly integrating GIS and BIM, we are empowering planners, engineers, and asset owners to visualise, design, and operate infrastructure with unprecedented precision and insight. GeoBIM provides project teams with a single source of spatial truth, enabling them to move from reactive maintenance to proactive operations. This is necessary to build resilient, intelligent, future-ready infrastructure that serves people, economies, and the environment.”

Kamolika Gupta, Vice President, Autodesk India, noted that coordinated models, design reviews, and common data environments are increasingly central to delivering projects with predictability. She said that broader alignment through a National BIM and Digital Twin approach would support consistency across public programmes.

During the event, Dr Bhushan Gagrani, Municipal Commissioner, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), highlighted that digital governance has become central to managing complex public infrastructure. He observed that the alignment of engineering models with geospatial data is now critical for maintaining transparency, scale and accountability in large public works.

Following the government perspective, Prashant Kamat, CEO & Vice Chairman, CS TECH Ai, said that domain expertise and on-ground experience are essential to operationalising the digital technologies advanced by Autodesk and Esri India. He said, “Digital systems alone cannot deliver governed infrastructure. It is the combination of domain knowledge, engineering depth and execution experience that allows BIM, GIS and AI to function as integrated decision systems. Our role is to bring that applied understanding so that these technologies translate into measurable outcomes for public projects.”

INFRAVERSE 2025 closed with a shared understanding that India’s infrastructure programmes will depend on unified digital systems, with BIM–GIS integration forming a central layer for governed planning, execution, and long-term asset management. Partnerships between leaders like Autodesk and Esri India support India’s ambitious infrastructure goals and will accelerate digital transformation across sectors.