NECESSITY OF SURVEY CAMP

The preliminary work of every engineering project such as water supply scheme, highway, irrigation, bridges, building, hydropower etc. needs survey of the site before planning and estimation. The necessity of the survey camp was to train the students about various technical difficulties encountered at a survey site and to help them to develop a professional attitude in tackling them. The survey camp is necessity to promote all the basic knowledge of different surveying techniques and to compute and manipulate the observed data in the required accuracy and present it in diagrammatic and tabular form in order to understand by the other engineers easily and fastly.

The necessity of the survey camp can be understood from the way it has managed to clear the students to numerous doubts about the various fundamental principles. It has helped us to understand better the principles we had already known, viz, “working from whole to part” principle and it has also made aware to us with new ideas like “the nature of river and its topographical feature.”

We can say that no one becomes a good surveyor unless he/she has successfully completed the survey camp course. Hence it’s of great importance for all the civil engineering students.