India supported the UN General Assembly's 'Correct the Map' resolution, adopted 164 to 1, which encourages equal-area map projections to reduce distortions from the Mercator projection. Delivering India's statement, diplomat Raghoo Puri urged the resolution remain technologically and methodologically neutral, endorsing equal-area approaches in principle while preserving flexibility for countries, institutions and cartographers to choose appropriate projections for their needs.
