PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry govt has launched a pilot project to use drones to survey land to issue land records to the owners and help the local administration maintain property-tax related information.
A team of officials from the survey and revenue departments and municipal administration will undertake aerial drone surveys and publish geo-referenced field maps, integrating the land record data with property-related data to help the local administration in maintaining property tax-related information.
The team will use aerial drones to generate photographic images of land using modern survey equipment like real-time kinematics (RTK) and electronic total station (ETS) and others to create field measurement blocks (FMB) to issue land records to owners, according to a release issued by the directorate of survey and land records.
Murungapakkam revenue village in Puducherry taluk was selected for the pilot project. The project is a part of the Union govt’s department of land and resources initiative, Naksha (National Geo-spatial knowledge-based land survey of urban habitations) under the Digital India land records modernization programme).
The Puducherry govt had proposed in Oct last year to conduct a re-survey of land using modern survey technologies and issued a govt notification in this regard.
Chief minister N Rangasamy launched the project in the presence of secretary (revenue) and district collector A Kulotungan, Rujmangathan from Survey of India, deputy collector (headquarters) Vinayaraj, Puducherry municipal commissioner Kandasamy and director (survey and land records) C Sendhil Kumar and others on Tuesday.