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New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) entered into a tripartite agreement with Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Survey of India (SoI) on Thursday to tackle ambiguity surrounding ownership and status of land held by different govt entities. The initiative aims to safeguard such land from unauthorised encroachments and illegal construction . The memorandum of understanding signed by the three parties aims to facilitate a comprehensive drone survey of the land in the capital.
“LG VK Saxena, faced with a lack of concrete knowledge with regard to the status of govt land in several review meetings chaired by him, had been consistently flagging the lack of real ground status and personally monitored the entire development, bringing the three agencies together. The matter had been flagged by different courts that had also instructed the land-owning agencies to adopt advanced technological solutions to map the actual status of land,” an official said. As part of the project, a drone survey will be done to provide high-resolution images and help in boundary demarcation of structures and khasra layers.
The aerial images will have diverse uses that include easy identification, mapping and monitoring of encroachments. “As part of the project, data elevation models will be used to identify vertical encroachments. It will help in getting real-time data on encroachments, thereby prompting authorities to act against encroachments at the nascent stage itself,” the official said.
The MoU aims to generate geospatial data by survey and mapping activities which will act as a base for the integration of data of DDA, MCD and various other departments in NCT of Delhi, including revenue, housing, urban development, PWD, irrigation and flood control, environment, agriculture, disaster management, etc. to maximise resource utilisation and ensure comprehensive coverage of all areas under their respective jurisdictions, officials said. “The MoU includes data acquisition, geo-referencing of cadastral maps (providing insight into property boundaries) and vectorisation (transforming input data into numerical vectors), resurvey for plot boundary," an official said.
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