The remeasurement, which will begin after 100 years, aims to give landowners permanent title deeds
The ongoing disputes over ownership of land that has been hoarded in courts and confusion over land survey records have weighed heavily on the finance and surveying departments with longstanding litigation.
To overcome the hurdles, the Andhra Pradesh government has embarked on another revolutionary project to completely re-measure the land, a massive exercise after 100 years, and give landowners permanent title deeds. The program is run with technical assistance from Survey of India.
“The Surveying, Settlement and Land Registry Department begins a historic project that will resume after 100 years. In the largest exercise of its kind, we are conducting a land survey in 17,500 villages and 110 urban local bodies under the YSR Jagananna Bhuraksha – Sashwata Bhu Hakku ‘, using state-of-the-art drone technology and in technical collaboration with the Survey of India. Our goal is to provide permanent title deeds to landowners, ”said Siddharth Jain, Commissioner, Survey, Settlement and Land Records.
Real-time images
The pilot began Tuesday on 63,433 hectares and includes 51 villages. The department would use drones to take real-time images, match them to land records, and later map them. The digitized survey would ensure that the measurements were accurate. In the event of objections, a new survey would be carried out with the GNSS rover system.
“The main feature of the project is that each property has a unique survey number and the survey is carried out in the presence of the landowner. The landowner will use the unique land survey number in all land related transactions and this land survey number will be mutated on the registration and revenue records, ”said Mr Siddharth Jain.
The project would use a satellite-based imaging technique from Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS), which was exactly.
The survey department sets up 70 CORS at a cost of 12 billion and integrates them into the Survey Institute of India.
The stations would have GRPS and broadband connectivity and would be powered by solar panels and would work around the clock.
A central control server would be set up in Vijayawada. The network could be used to integrate all machines using GPS to improve accuracy, Jain said.
The division would also use rovers, and so far 75 rovers have been made available to the counties.
10,180 employees have already been trained at the field level and 275 employees at the middle level. Training in GNSS Rover Training and awareness sessions would be held.
“We are starting with a pilot project in 51 villages and later surveys will be carried out in 650 villages. We started printing pictures in 51 villages covering 63,433 hectares, ”said Mr. Jain.