NAKSHA scheme launched

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

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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 categorized as a category D urban area as its population is less than 50,000. Once completed it 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 and will encompass an aerial survey and mapping of various features, field survey and ground validation besides claims and dispute resolution before finalisation of the map.

It will also facilitate disaster management planning to even eventualities like natural disasters besides land acquisition to ease development.

Deputy Commissioner, Solan, Manmohan Sharma and Additional Surveyor General (North Zone) Mahesh Chand Gaur jointly launched this ambitious central government Naksha programme on a pilot basis yesterday.

Elaborating upon it he said that 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.”

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

Mahesh Chand Gaur threw further light on the scheme and said that the Naksha programme has been kick-started in 150 cities of the country. “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 ‘Naksha’ programme which is a new initiative utilising latest technology for the modernisation of land related records of urban civic bodies. While this will facilitate landowners in building construction work, it will also provide information about revenue records.

On this occasion, officials of Survey of India gave detailed information about the ‘Naksha’ programme through presentation.