Drone mapping of 6,329 ‘lal dora’ villages ends in Haryana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 28

Haryana has completed the work of drone mapping of ‘lal dora’ villages. Now, the work of mapping of revenue records (agricultural land) will be started by the Survey of India from August 31. A target has been set to complete it in the next six months.

This information was shared by the Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Haryana, Sanjeev Kaushal while reviewing the Svamitva Scheme with the Deputy Commissioners of the district through video-conferencing on Saturday.

He said that the Centre has given approval to get the mapping of revenue records (agricultural land) done through Survey of India and the expenditure for this work would be borne by the state government.

Kaushal informed that to end the practice of ‘lal dora’ — which has been prevalent in the state since 1908 during the British era — an exercise has been started in Haryana.

He added that under this, the mapping of ‘lal dora’ of about 6,329 villages of 22 districts of the state was completed till August 24, of which data processing of 5,333 villages has been done by Survey of India.