The Maharashtra land title office, which reports to the settlement commissioner’s office, was given 25 drones by the Union government last year to speed up the land surveying project, which was started to establish an accurate land registry for rural planning and lessen property disputes.
According to settlement commissioner of Maharashtra NK Sudhanshu, the state would finish the drone-based routing of rural housing land parcels by march this year in order to fix the boundary lines of villages, private, government, and semi-government properties as well as the locations of roads and canals.
The Maharashtra land information office, which reports to the settlement commissioner’s office, was given 25 drones by the Union government last year to speed up the land assessment project, which was started to establish accurate land records for regional planning and lessen property disputes.
“Manual mapping was previously used. But today, drone technology is altering how this significant effort was carried out,” Sudhanshu remarked.
The property IDs for these locations would be completed by December 2024, according to officials.
Under the Svamitva scheme, which aims to offer integrated property verification for rural India, the project started in Purandar Tehsil at Sonori village of Pune in 2018.
Although the initiative had been delayed by the two-year Covid period, 35,115 communities were included in the programme last year, including 31,787 villages that made use of drone technology. By March 2023, only 3,328 communities will still be unaffected, according to a participant in the exercise.
The official stated that data for 4,733 property cards for these rural villages had been published on the Mahabhumi portal and that 7.16 lakh property cards had been prepared out of an anticipated 9.9 lakh beneficiaries in the state.
“Through this programme, the government pledges to promote economic development in rural India by giving each rural household a “record of rights.” A drone and continually operational reference station technology will be used to do this, according to a central office.
