Centre's NAKSHA scheme launched in Solan

Solan is among four urban local bodies of the state where the National Geospatial Knowledge Based Land Survey of Urban Habitation (NAKSHA) programme was launched on a pilot basis yesterday.

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While enhancing transparency, accessibility and accuracy, the NAKSHA programme will facilitate smoother transactions and enhance access to credit for the residents. It will help overcome inherent problems like disputed ownership and protracted legal battles while removing the impediments in planned infrastructure development. It was observed that non-maintenance of urban land records in several states was causing property disputes and it impeded growth of the urban area.

Solan has been categorised as 'Category D' urban area as its population is less than 50,000. Once completed, the pogramme will also devise a uniform basis for assessing property tax which will help improve the fiscal growth of the urban civic body. It will integrate GIS and spatial databases, besides encompassing an aerial survey and mapping of various features, field survey and ground validation. Apart from this, claims and dispute resolution before finalisation of the map will also be facilitated. It will also help in disaster management planning to even eventualities like natural disasters besides land acquisition to ease development.

Solan Deputy Commissioner Manmohan Sharma and Additional Surveyor General (North Zone) Mahesh Chand Gaur jointly launched this Central Government's NAKSHA programme here today.

DC Sharma said after the completion of the NAKSHA programme, landowners will be able to get complete information about their land and buildings. “The record of the urban civic body land will be maintained through this programme which will help in accurate identification of the land of the landowner,” he said.

Various schemes which would be developed in the city like drainage, sewage and other building construction work would be facilitated after the completion of this programme.

Mahesh Chand Gaur elaborated upon the scheme and said the programme has been kick-started in 150 cities of the country from today. “The mapping of Solan Municipal Corporation area will be done by the Survey of India using modern technology. It will take one year to complete this work.”

Survey of India is the technical partner in the programme which is a new initiative utilising latest technology for modernisation of land related records of urban civic bodies.

Municipal Corporation Mayor Usha Sharma, Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Ekta Kapta, Additional Deputy Commissioner Rahul Jain, Joint Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Bimla, Assistant Commissioner Neerja Sharma, District Revenue Officer Sumedh Sharma, Councillors of Municipal Corporation and officials of various departments were present on the occasion.