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Satellite to usher in a new era in land mapping in India
Though some time ago it was stated that the Bangalore Metropolitan Regional Development Authority used a satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to draw up the Comprehensive Development Plan 2015 for the city, not many would have gone into the unlimited scope for such technology in updating land records even in remote villages.
Cartosat 2A, recently put into orbit, is intended to beam pictures of our hinterland. This has given new opportunities for maintenance of land records.
How does the satellite help to keep land records and what business opportunities can it generate? Village is our basic survey unit for many purposes. Land records too are primarily kept by village accountants.
A map of the village is the basic document and identification of land is made through survey numbers given to each piece of land owned by a family or individual. Apart from land, roads, lakes, water fronts and forests are marked on the village map.
The effort is to combine satellite pictures of land holdings with field surveys for creating a unified register of property titles.
Land being the single most valuable physical asset in India, proper records relating to it can increase its collateral value, based on which its uses such as levying tax, assessment of eligible bank credit and so on can be properly applied.
The torn/faded maps with the village accountant can be replaced by satellite imagery techniques and the village maps can be reconstituted accordingly.
There is little certainty in land titles owing to the weaknesses in the record/mapping system in India.
K. SUKUMARAN
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