Senior IAS officers—District Magistrates and Collectors—will take part in a two‑day training on the NAKSHA program in Mussoorie, starting Monday. The session is designed to ready frontline administrators for the national rollout of India’s first large‑scale GIS‑based urban land survey.
The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), together with the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration’s B N Yugandhar Centre for Rural Studies (BNYCRS), is hosting a “Training cum Workshop on NAKSHA.” Dr Bagadi Gautham, the centre director, will open the event, followed by a keynote from Manoj Joshi, Secretary of the DoLR.
Key components of the workshop include:
– An overview of the NAKSHA program by Joint Secretary Kunal Satyarthi.
– Technical sessions on workflow and data acquisition led by S.K. Sinha, the Additional Surveyor General of India.
– A live demo of the NAKSHA Web‑GIS portal by the Maharashtra Police and Security Department (MPSEDC).
– State‑level case studies from Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, and Madhya Pradesh, sharing best practices.
– Discussions on administrative and legal frameworks by N.K. Sudhanshu (DG, Yashada) and S. Chockalingam (CEO, Maharashtra).
– A ground‑truthing demonstration by the Survey of India to wrap up the program.
The goal is to equip District Magistrates with the skills needed to implement NAKSHA across India’s 157 urban local bodies in 27 states and three union territories, covering more than 4,400 sq km and benefiting over 15 million residents.
NAKSHA, part of the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme, uses state‑of‑the‑art aerial and field survey techniques to create a GIS‑integrated database of urban land parcels. The initiative is supported by the Survey of India, NICSI, MPSEDC, and five national Centres of Excellence.
With India’s cities expected to house 600 million people by 2031, accurate and accessible land records are essential. NAKSHA will improve property transparency, streamline urban planning, enhance revenue collection, and boost public trust and private investment in reliable, legally certified land data.
This Mussoorie workshop on October 27‑28 aims to build administrative and technical readiness for the nationwide launch of the NAKSHA program, a key step toward modernizing India’s urban land records system.
Source: ianslive
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