Door-to-door survey of land, properties in five villages of Chandigarh soon

In a step towards modernising land records, the UT Administration will shortly start a door-to-door survey of land and properties in five villages of Attawa, Burail, Kajheri, Palsora and Sarangpur here under the Naksha project of the Central Government.

According to officials, the survey is being conducted under the Naksha (National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations) project. Aimed at transforming urban land governance, Sectors 2 to 17 (excluding Sector 13) and Sarangpur, Kajheri, Burail, Attawa, Palsora villages will be covered under the project on a pilot basis in Chandigarh. The project is aimed to creating comprehensive, transparent, fully digitised and GIS-mapped land records to ensure clarity in ownership and reduce disputes.

During the survey, teams will verify ownership documents. The Deputy Commissioner-cum-Nodal Officer for Naksha, Nishant Kumar Yadav, has requested the residents to show the original copies of any one approved property documents for on-the-spot verification. He said the documents would be uploaded digitally and returned immediately.

The project has been launched by the Ministry of Rural Development to modernise land governance through advanced geospatial technologies. It builds upon the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) and uses drone surveys, high-resolution imagery and geographic information system (GIS) mapping to accurately delineate land parcels and link them with ownership details.

Once fully implemented, the project will provide numerous advantages to the residents of Chandigarh. Updated and clean ownership records will help minimise property-related disputes and make buying, selling and leasing of properties faster, safer and fraud-free. The digitised database will also facilitate easier loan approvals, as banks and financial institutions will be able to verify ownership details more efficiently.

Besides, the initiative is likely to simplify property transactions, improve access to credit and support e-governance initiatives.

The UT Administration has nearly completed the field survey of nearly 7,000 properties, including commercial and residential, in Sectors 2 to 17, excluding Sector 13. About 20 field teams have been deployed for the survey.

The UT Administration had already completed the drone and data collection activities across 15 sectors and five villages.