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Panchkula's municipal corporation has begun work on the NAKSHA Urban Land Survey Programme, a central government effort to modernise and digitise urban land records. Special NAKSHA teams are conducting on-ground checks and using drones and high-resolution cameras to map residential and commercial land parcels across all wards. They are meeting property owners to verify documents such as sale deeds and mutation papers, and residents have been urged to cooperate. Authorities say the new GIS-based records will offer reliable ownership details, support better urban planning, reduce disputes, and simplify transactions and taxation. The initiative mirrors similar drone-mapping programmes already adopted in several states.
The Panchkula municipal corporation has embarked on implementing the NAKSHA Urban Land Survey Programme, a central-government initiative under the Department of Land Resources, aiming to modernise and digitise urban land records across the city. Specially authorised NAKSHA survey teams have commenced field operations, carrying out ground verification of documented ownership and capturing high-resolution drone and camera imagery to map land parcels - both residential and commercial - across all municipal wards. Advertisement
To ensure accuracy, these teams will engage with property owners or their authorised representatives to collect sale deeds, mutation papers and other relevant documents. Citizens have been urged to cooperate; separate notices have been dispatched to municipal councillors, RWAs, house owners' welfare bodies, market welfare associations and group-housing societies, encouraging support for the survey effort.
According to the authorities, the digitised, GIS-based land records will deliver dependable Records of Rights, improve transparency in ownership, facilitate urban planning, and help curb property disputes. The initiative is expected to streamline processes related to property transactions, taxation, and infrastructure planning - benefits that proponents say will eventually justify the exercise.
This initiative follows a growing national trend - similar drone-based property-mapping programmes (such as under the SVAMITVA Scheme) have already been deployed in rural and urban areas across several states, demonstrating how aerial imagery combined with GIS can deliver efficient, transparent, and accurate cadastral systems.
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