A national geospatial knowledge-based land survey of the urban habitations (NAKSHA), a pilot programme to modernise urban land records, was launched in Thanjavur.
The programme is taken up under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme of the Department of Land Resources of the Union Ministry of Rural Development.
It aims at ensuring that the urban land records were accurate and up-to-date, empowering urban citizens and enabling better urban planning.
The one-year pilot programme will be implemented in more than 150 cities across the country.
Under the programme, drones would be deployed to carry out geospatial mapping and create accurate property records.
The data would be integrated with the property tax records of the urban local bodies.
Advanced land survey devices would be used to create the maps.