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Coimbatore is on a mission to create a geospatial database for city land records, right down to the number of trees in the city. Preliminary work for the National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations (NAKSHA) began in seven wards of the Coimbatore corporation. As part of the pilot project, a 10.44 sq km area will be surveyed using drones. Field maps with geo-location points will also be created.
“We need an updated land record system because of the rapid urban growth,” says an official from the district survey and land records department. “We will cover 73,263 buildings. The drone survey is expected to start by the end of this month, and we hope to cover seven wards in three days.”
This project is being implemented under the Digital India land records modernisation programme (DILRMP) and is fully funded by the Union govt. Ortho-rectified images will be generated using drone data, says the official. Teams from the revenue and municipal administration departments will also conduct ground-truthing to validate property records.
“A draft field map will be prepared, and land ownership details will be published online for public review. If landowners have any objection to the mapped records, they can make an appeal,” says the official. “The data will also be linked to property tax records maintained by the corporation. The entire process is expected to take a year.
