Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate the National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations (NKSHA) pilot program on 18th February.
It will be launched in 152 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in 26 states and 3 Union Territories (UTs) at Raisen, Madhya Pradesh.
The NAKSHA program will be implemented by the Department of Land Resources under the Ministry of Rural Development.
The main aim of the program is to modernize land survey processes in urban areas.
The main objective is to create and update land records, ensuring accurate documentation of land ownership, improving urban planning, and reducing land-related disputes.
This program will leverage IT-based systems for property record administration to enhance transparency, and efficiency, and support sustainable development.
The Survey of India has been designated as the technical partner for the NAKSHA initiative.
It will conduct aerial surveys and provide orthorectified imagery through third-party vendors to the respective state and Union Territory governments.
It will develop an end-to-end web-GIS platform with storage facilities managed by the National Informatics Centre Services Inc.
The NAKSHA pilot program will cost ₹194 crore, with full funding by the central government.
