Context:
The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), under the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, has announced the launch of the second batch of Phase 2 of its capacity-building programme under the NAKSHA (National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations) initiative. The programme commences on June 16, 2025, with training to be conducted across four Centres of Excellence (CoEs) nationwide.
Objectives
The training is designed to empower ULB-level and district officials with the technical competencies to carry out high-precision urban property surveys. Modules include:
- GNSS and ETS-based land surveying
- Web-GIS platforms for urban mapping
- Land parcel mapping and digitization
- Legal and administrative frameworks for land record modernization
- Implementation of the NAKSHA framework in real-time survey operations
About NAKSHA
The NAKSHA programme is a pioneering geospatial initiative launched by DoLR in partnership with:
- Survey of India
- NICSI
- MPSeDC
- Five Centres of Excellence
It is currently being piloted in 157 ULBs across 27 States and 3 Union Territories, and aims to meet the growing demand for accurate, accessible, and verifiable urban land records, especially as India’s urban population is projected to cross 600 million by 2031.
