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resp hi um if anyone finds a lost spectacle in the on the seats please do let us know isach kishna request chair and theator to come start moderator sir so please come on good morning ladies and gentlemen and we are back to start the second day of our International Workshop we see some familiar faces in some new ones we cordially invite all of you this to this Workshop hope you are very excited for the sessions we have lined up and without any further Ado let's dive in and let me introduce the topic for the fourth

session transforming Urban Land records and management case studies from States for the session we are honored to have Mr s Krishnan secretary Ministry of electronics and information technology government of India as chair of the session Mr s Krishnan is a 1989 batch is Officer of Tamil Nadu Carter he has a variety of experience and has served in international monetary fund he served as a senior adviser in the office of the executive director for India Sri Lanka Bangladesh and Bhutan in the international monetary fund Washington DC and representated the government of India in G20 experts group

on International Financial architecture and Global Financial safety 50 we welcome you sir on the stage now let us welcome Mr BK Agarwal former secretary to government of India and chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh as our moderator of the session he's a retired is officer with an extensive administrative experience he's postgraduated in civil engineering from IIT Delhi and mfil in public administration drawing his attention and extensive St study on land Administration system in India Europe America he thir book land registration Global practices and lessons for India we are uh welcome you sir on the stage now

may very briefly introduce our speakers to you the first Speaker Mr enk sudhansu director General yashida Pune government of Maharashtra second speaker for the day Mr Mish mudgil special commissioner Revenue bruhat Bengaluru mahanagar palika government of Karnataka the third speaker Dr om prakash director land records and surveys Assam the fourth speaker Miss anubha Shasta commissioner land records government of madhia Pradesh the fifth speaker Mr shrih B lar commissioner come director land records and Survey settlement department government of Andhra Pradesh and the sixth speaker Miss kav padmanabhan commissioner and secretary Housing and Urban Affairs government of

Assam guahati property taxation may I please ask the moderator sir please take over from here uh I welcome everyone uh in this session the audience and the uh panelist and our chairman so now as as per the scheme of this uh session we will start uh now uh in the beginning I would just like to say that it is a very great thing that now the department of uh Land Resources has taken upon itself the responsibility of creating land records in urban areas also that is that was the biggest Gap in our land Administration system

because most of the problems were being felt in urban areas because there was no record of Rights though legally it is should be there but somehow it has been abandoned so records are not being updated or new records are not being created so I think this project will uh fill that very important Gap and with this completion of this project land records or land Administration will be uh much better but only thing is that we all know that technology and surveys is not the land Administration only technology and admin uh survey can not only uh

inrent to make good land Administration lot more things will go into it like human resources changes in the Law changes in the procedur simplification making accessible land records accessible sharing should become easy between the different departments and agencies private sector government sector and the so anyway so all those things will be required now uh I will request the chairman to give his opening remarks and after that we will uh start with the panelist good morning uh good morning the moderator of the session SRI BK Agarwal fellow panelists the secretary uh Ministry of uh land records

uh my friend and colleague Shri Mano josi SRI Kash satati The Joint secretary I think it's a wonderful idea that uh the department of land records is actually holding uh an event of this nature an International Event to learn from experiences from across the country and across the world on what can happen with land when we started our career 35 years ago land and land related records were a very important part of what was taught to us somewhere along the line by the time I was a deputy director of the academy and subsequently a lot

of this lost some steam but I think we are now coming back to what is really critical in terms of land and this period in between has been uh has been has seen a considerable appreciation and the value of land and as an economic asset it means a lot to people who actually hold it and you can really unlock huge economic benefits for a large mass of population if you are able to manage your land records and if you're able to give some certainty regarding the rights which relate to land and that is how significant

it is from an economic perspective equally it makes a huge difference in terms of what can happen uh for even ordinary families or for poorer families in terms of Housing and in terms of other benefits uh it's interesting many of our housing restrictions um had a minimum plot size before you could Grant permission so when the pradan manry AAS yoga programs and other programs were introduced and uh subsidized credit was made available many people couldn't actually Avail of the credit because you had rules which said that you could not give a permission to construct unless

this plot size was a minimum of uh 400 ft or 800 ft and thereafter you had a further problem that um if no U permission could be formally granted then it meant that you would not be eligible for any credit against even very valuable land and in that sense you actually end up derecognized a lot of uh valuable assets that even poor families can hold and we've had a number of in fact uh it's very interesting that one of the most successful World Bank projects which was implemented uh in in the Tamil Nadu scenario which

I'm familiar with was the sites and services component of the Madras urban development project in the' 70s and ' 80s and those assets which were transferred to people on that basis today are uh so valuable that they have actually resulted in many families beating the Trap of poverty and being uh uh being enabled to actually monetize on uh very very uh useful and very very uh valuable assets so that is the kind of implication that uh we can have particularly in urban areas if we are able to record the rights and ensure that the lands

are properly mapped and you are able to give those rights to individuals and increasingly the important thing also is that it it impacts the other part of how you can develop urban areas in an orderly way many of our cities and many of our Urban Pockets develop in a in a halfhazard and organic fashion and people build in any which way that they that they want to and there are some States where there's an insistence that the revenue records in terms of what the revenue rights are on a particular piece of property and the uh

registration records in terms of what the uh chain of transfer of title of documents indicates those boundaries need to be matched in order to get a proper planning permission and thereafter you know the planning permission depends on that uh in the way in which that particular map is drawn up and there could be I mean there are variations in the way that uh the two maps actually operate and the important thing then is to actually rapidly attempt to auto M and computerize these records so that there's far greater transparency and it's available much more easily

and the entire planning process permission process is speeded up so there is a lot of work which needs to be done in this area a huge task and as was pointed out it's not just a matter of technology and Equipment but a matter of a lot of ground truthing which needs to be done which actually reflects the state on ground and the rights are decided in an effective way without in a summary process without too much of legal implications but at the same time ensuring that individual rights are protected and that in some ways can

be a complex uh exercise uh which requires a great deal of attention and given that at an administrative level this is not as fashionable as it was many years ago and is not looked upon as as an issue which um which could actually deliver immediate benefits or results it's it's uh it's something which often doesn't get attention and often times it also doesn't get attention because there is a fear that something of the taking up work of this nature will result in newer controversies getting fueled and newer issues coming up so as very often happens

what is important but difficult sometimes doesn't get done but I think that is where the uh the will is really required to be there and today as we see we have all the states which are represented and ultimately uh land is a State subject and land tenures in this country vary widely from state to state in the way that the original rights are written up but clearly today we have reached a stage where we have to look at this asset in um in every way the other element of course really is that uh um there

is a huge scope for revenue for urban areas because Urban Pockets really um are drivers of economic growth gr and the values go up so much and if we are able to identify land Parcels effectively and if we are able to identify that the construction has been done as per the rules and so on there's a huge potential for raising revenue from that um I recall some years ago across the world globally uh property taxes make up about 2% of GDP as revenues which ACR to various levels of government in India that number is less

than 2% in many states it's not even um not even that and we clearly have a huge opportunity there for raising revenues for local bodies and raising revenues for local levels of government which can actually significantly pay for better Urban services and better Urban infrastructure so these are all elements which become very crucial to the way that cities develop the way that individual rights are mapped the way that people are able to realize their rights and applications of appropriate technology in those situations becomes really crucial um as far as mate is concerned we fundamentally look

at various ways in which uh the technology can be applied to this there are GIS Technologies which can be used we have an institution uh bag which actually does a lot of extensive uh GIS related work in other um context it also works on the prime minister's GTI shaki program and that is that is helped in planning of various infrastructure projects very effectively then we have other elements like digilocker which would enable the uh Records individual records of rights to be preserved in a in an automated form in an electronic form which can then be

used for a variety of purposes whether by Banks or other institutions when it comes to loing so the technology overlay is definitely available the technological solutions are definitely available uh equally by using uh blockchain and other Frameworks it is possible to make many of these land records tamperproof which becomes an important element of what needs to happen that is again a technology through the national blockchain framework that the ministry is able to offer so all of these are technology overlays which certainly can be offered but uh as the moderator of the session already pointed out

it's not just the technology which is important the important element is how we do the ground truthing and how we are able to actually achieve at the field level it is a tedious and a long drawn out task but it's a very important task which can unlock huge value both for individuals who own the land for economic activity in general and in terms of revenue for the various local levels of government which are dependent on it and clear clearly something which has to be prioritized and taken up and in that context I think having this

event today is very significant and important and uh I'm very glad that uh do has taken it up and and glad to see so many states represented and wanting to discuss this crucial issue thank you very much thank you very much uh Mr Krishnan and as he has pointed out that you know land Administration land records have multiple multilateral effects across the sectors poverty removal Economic Development urbanization town planning so so so then it becomes very very crucial that you know land though sometimes it is considered that it is a low priority for the governments

that is the impression but not actually it should not be there and I think it's not there also so land Administration is very important because it supports so many sectors now we'll go to the speakers and as we know we have already told you in advance that um looking into the time we will give 10 minutes to each speaker kindly stick to that time and uh if because India is a diverse country and then you know all the states are doing some Innovation something uh on the in their own way and we have to learn

from each of them so I am very sure that your experience will be very very important kindly if you can stick to the basic concepts you can avoid processes and the outcome an outcome in the in the in terms of efficiency in the government processes and services to the people because that is very very important whether our better land records or better Innovations or better technology actually leads to better services to the people that should be one of the very important parameter of course uh efficiency in the government processes like tax collection or um or

or regulation or whatever that is also very important so now I will invite Mr NK sudhansu director General yashida Pune government of Maharashtra to make his presentation and Mr uh Sudan I think he has been introduced already thank you good morning everybody uh let me first of all thank uh Department of land resources uh for organizing this event it's like merging technology with land Administration and as Krishna s was saying uh he was our DD when I was when we were probation sir and uh uh coincident sir when I was in Academy some of our

probationers are here as working in the land in various States so three generations you can say Sir uh so merging of technology is now happening in uh land record and it is very important that not only the rural land record which has been the traditional uh Records that we have been looking at we are now focusing on Urban record which is very important not only in terms of ownership planning but also uh ease of doing business and uh resources for the state so I'll be talking about the city Survey System or the town Survey System

in Maharashtra which is already existing for a long time now uh as I said Maharashtra has been doing Town survey or city survey for long time uh first it was done in uh 19th century and we have been continuing that when uh India got independence and Maharashtra had its land Revenue code we built in the chapters relating to City survey what we call City survey in Maharashtra as part of the land Revenue code and under those Provisions we are doing City survey since 1960s in a big way so whenever as an urban local body is

declared as urban area simultaneously in Maharashtra Revenue Department declares it as City survey area so what it means is that that the governance part is taken care of by the structure which is urban local body nagar parishad Municipal corporations but the land record is after that declaration comes under the purview of City survey uh the land record department in maharastra has a city survey Department also uh so the city survey takes over the land records which was already existing within the boundaries of urban local body and the earlier record which is in the form of

generally Village record uh the culture record it is entirely resurveyed by the city survey special offices which are there after the resurvey this the old records are converted into City survey records obviously it's it's a it's a tedious process it takes a lot of time and on an average if you see a midsize uh nagar parishad it takes four to 5 years to complete a city survey process and initial years we were quite uh fast in doing the city survey but last 25 to 30 years the uh the pace of urbanization has increased and because

of which we have been lagging in completing the city survey of our cities So currently roughly we have about more than 550 Urban local bodies but we have completed only uh around 200 uh those are Urban local bodies as City survey now the city survey records which are like uh the RO in the rural area in Maharashtra roughly about 8 80 lakhs property card as we call it has been digitized completely they are available online with digital signature which means they are certified and verifiable also and most importantly as we were discussing the morning uh

it has been completely integrated with the registration process so today anybody in uh uh in cafe or at home can apply for any change in the city survey record the RO or if a person goes for registration of a property one need not separately file or separately search for a property card on which the person wants to do a mutation or want to wants to do a transaction so for at the time of registration one just needs to select uh the name uh his name in the property card which autof fetches from the land C

data now briefly as I said we have already completed uh more than 8,000 Villages uh uh in the 8 8,000 villages we have completed the city survey a typical land record in City area which we call property card looks like this so all the essential components of a urban record you will be able to find here starting from the area which is in square meters because in urban areas the uh map has to be more accurate then if there is a building in the form of a society which is generally the case in in urban

areas you'll have the name of the building name of the society then you have the details of the uh flats or individual tenaments in the building owner of those individual tenaments so that the transaction yeah okay sir so this is a typical I'll leave this presentation this is the typical uh property card which is uh now currently available in Maharashtra and very recently we have also uh started giving giving the giving the map based on G uh based on the gnss Rover's measured uh points which means all all the maps now which we are giving

the boundary demarcation Maps whether it is in the city area or in the rural area they come with latitude and longitude and now this is entirely covering the uh entire estate it is also having the digital signature if you are able to see so it is a certified map available on GIS portal of the state now this is the process in the summary I'll not go into the process and I'll just explain some of the uh Pilots that we have done we have done the pilot as I said it's going to it's take it takes

a lot of time to do the city survey now to to to fasten the process to fasten the process we have started using the technology which we are currently having uh we are using drone we are using the Rovers to take the data and work on it so that the process which used to take 5 to six years now it we uh uh we think that it's going to take maybe 6 to 7 months or up to one year for a middle siiz City so first what we do after Declaration of the city survey area

we uh Market the boundaries of the area of the city then we do the digitization after digitization of the old Maps we superimpose them on the images that are obtained from the uh drone survey there's a challenge here but uh generally it fits then the layouts which are already approved by the urban local body in the past they are digitized and superimposed that again we have a challenge but uh around 80 to 90% % def fit then the ground truthing happens ground truthing can be done in Maharashtra we are doing uh both online and offline

method ground truthing means that we go to the every uh house we demarcate the boundary using uh Rovers or sometimes even ETS or or a combination of ETS and Rovers and we put it on the JS this is online as we all understand working on a legacy map or Legacy data has its own problems there'll always be differences in the area as well as boundary so the boundary as well as area difference is pointed out automatically when we are doing this and we are in a position to point out which are the plots do not

matching the Legacy data and we work on it and then the ownership related inquiry happen door too and this is very important part where I I would like to explain a bit so what we have found out from our uh pilot that if we promulgate everything together after inquiry and after ground Ru thing there's a lot of confusion that happens because even if they say 20 to 25% of the area and Boundary do not match and there a huge number for a city and to tackle those problems is going to be really difficult so what

we decided that we will first Mark out the areas which are public like roads utilities open areas which are uh owned by either the urban local bodies or the government so we first promulgate that data so that there is no confusion on that and everybody agrees once that is done we then uh go for open space and other uh utilities owned by the government so after these two things are clear then we promate the layouts the sanctioned layouts which are which are uh legal which has been approved by the urban local body our experience has

been that once these three are taken care of a good amount of area inside the city survey area is already taken care of and then we also uh Mark other utilities like storm water drains Etc and then we go for the private properties even in the private properties there are two three categories one the first category is what is already approved building plans are approved second category is where there is illegal without permission Construction and third is total illegal meaning encroachment not even the ownership is clear so everything is now promulgated uh in phases and

the promulgation also happens online anybody can go and uh Mr sudu you have to finish now I think sir last two slides so once the decision is taken after promulgation uh the s or the certificate of ownership and the property card generation happens and it automatically goes online so our experience in these five uh nagar parishad have been that we have been able to go to a very not 100% but good accuracy where we only have to deal with 10 to 15% of the properties which are not matching and for that also we are now

coming up with the Sops this is just an example of one of the locations in Pune where we did all the process that I just described and we found out that 95 95% of the plots sanction plots match in area and Boundary but there are some issues one uh minute sir there are some issues which are common to every uh cities the approved layouts as approved by the urban local bodies and now as overlaid on the map they don't match and this is just an example and these cases are really the difficult part to handle

some cases the open area shifts uh on the ground the open area which has been sanctioned it is located in some different area those also those cases also needs to be handled and these need to be handled by the urban local bodies and there there are illegal construction uh slums which are totally illegal in nature in terms of ownership also but there are Provisions in the mlrc under a special acts slum Rehabilitation acts also to handle these situations one of the issues which uh came to us as an important uh challenge is coordination with Urban

local bodies but I hope that with the integration of the technology or the data of uh which is lying with the urban local bodies in terms of property tax data and land record data probably this coordination will uh will be uh uh done thank you uh thank you very much Sanu uh you have told that you know in Maharashtra has a long tradition of making Urban records but only thing is that as you told that you know as soon as the city is Villages merge in urban area whole uh this you know Village is resurveyed

I don't know whether it is actually required in other states who are who will be taking up urban areas because most of the urban areas is formed out of the by merging the rural areas where cadastral records may already be existing maybe that you have to say change some procedures and you know Maps our surface does not change only ownerships change so maybe that whe weather you know same records can be used and they can be improved and perhaps I Bangalore has tried that that you know the all the old records of Village records They

are they were able to superimpose their new plans on that but anyway Mr munish modgil will uh tell in detail and he has a long experience in the uh survey and settlement department and in the municipal Corporation Mr modil and kindly take 10 minutes on because otherwise thank you everybody I'll try to stick to the time limit and I firstly from my heart congratulate Min Department of land resources and secretary sir I feel it's a very core area which is close to my heart and very important one and my speaker the chairman chair and the

moderator sir have said everything I'll not repeat it here but uh one or two things I just want to say uh one is that Maharashtra sudhansu has spoken so I'll not get into all that detail those of you who want to know how things are done we can discuss it later one or two CH differentiations I'll try to just point out before I start the presentation in kataka perhaps in some other states also unlike Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu we don't have virtually any land records practically speaking in the cities uh or Urban local bodies and

in that sense we are clean we have uh Legacy records but what we actually see on the ground does not correlate we do have City survey Wing in ATA but last City survey was done in 1975 in Bangalore and it was not carried forward so it is outdated so those records have also become Legacy so in a way we started out if you call it a good or a bad thing on a cleaner slate or a clean slate uh I'll just go straight away what I will do show is what we have done in Bangalore

and the conclusions I'll tell you first because detailing I can tell you later a city as big as Bangalore with a approach we have adopted can be completed it may sound very ambitious in about 1 to 1 and a half years time I'll just show you next next okay I have to do okay see we have just rolled out in Bangalore City on 1st October this year only but I would say is the largest digital eata system in in the country so there 2.2 million what we did about last 7 months we digitized everything which

was in the municipality and that gives uh like I said the revenue department managing the ownership is not the norm in Karnataka in urban areas municipality was always managing it you'll be surprised that Bangalore city was maintaining records of ownership of the property also in manual registers so in last 7 months we have digitized 22 lakh records now on 1st October we have put out all of them online available for everybody we call it faceless and contactless what we now have created a system is where a person does not need to meet anybody in Municipal

Corporation for their record or even for their mutations Etc we'll tell you uh what it how it is done it is transparent in the sense that anybody can online go and see anybody's records for that matter in terms of the ownership and people can have an issue about it but I feel that is a way forward and it is as sudu was telling it is integrated with sub register Revenue Department in Karnataka has been a you know under the leadership of the present Revenue Minister and the secretary has been very proactive in one stroke Bangalore

city has been integrated with practically been integrated with sub regist it is automatic what we say is you seed your Adar in your property record of bangal City once you do the transaction in the sub register the mut ation will be literally automatic which means no human being will approve that as long as the purchaser and the seller both authenticate themselves through Adar naturally it is anywhere and any time uh that is a website on which all the 22 lakh or 2.2 million records are available bbmp e. karnataka.jpg has been built by Nic with us

so I mean it is slow but you know it is secure in terms of you know sometimes uh private fellows there is issues of you know data being taken away and all that how we did was that you know I can just tell in a very brief way uh I was survey commissioner and presently also the commissioner survey we were we carried out each inch of flying of drone uh through drone of the city of Bangalore and then we have digitized almost 78% the land Parcels or the polygons of Bangalore City uh in that process

something similar to what sudano said and as I said now in last 7 months we have digitized all these 22 lakh property records basically property tax records but that is what is defacto property ownership record in Bangalore City then what we did we integrated with uh the sub regist system so what happens is when we throw throw open this whole system to everybody in the city what you do what you get is a draft eata which we call eata you tell your sale deed electronically we fetch it from the sub regist we compare the things

and the dimensions Etc there and uh so electronically we are able to authenticate in some sense the records if I go in detail it will get very detailed what we have done an independent team is capturing the GPS of each property in Bangalore City so what we have we have a digital Geor referenced polygon of survey we have a digitized textual record of the municipality we have the chain of sale purchase of sub register we have a GPS team going house to house capturing the GPS of each property roughly about uh 20,000 properties we are

G digit GPS is being captured every moment so what this GPS does it puts them all together in a single chain and what we get at the end of it is a digitized Geor referenced property map with ownership details so uh it becomes a single source of Truth for property and land records we are not fighting or we are not at parallel track with the revenue department we are building a system revenue department has been very kind to approve a city surviving within the bangalor city Corporation so that will become the single source of Truth

as a harmonious knowledge integration of both the the Departments then it is integrated as I said for the property tax system I'll tell you the impact it is integrated KC kataka electricity Regulatory Commission has agreed to make the bbmp property ID which now we have issued for 22 lakh records as a mandatory field when you go and try to pay your bill electricity bill so it will transform my I'll finish off and Adar seeding has been done in eata as I said automatic mutations this is I'll not get into detail this is what was done

by the survey Department something similar to sudu we are additionally doing the digitization of each of the buil up area uh this is how it gets generated this is typically how now the Bangalore City you know property record or eata will look like on the right side page at the bottom is both digital sketch and the overview image which is which we got from the revenue department but it will be added with the builtup area I'll not get into what I want to say is there were seven eight systems we brought them together and our

approach has been modular and not big bang which means incremental which means we don't try to do everything as a single system we pick the systems separately and Stitch them together the benefit of such an approach is you can be live from day one I can explain if questions are asked about it some of multiple small simple systems which is G's law I'll just tell every complex system that works is sum of simple systems that work a complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be this is you know anyhow I'll not get into

it okay the highest I can tell you last year we were the highest property tax collectors in the country and in a city now driven by Geor reference digitize map and Records this is what we are expecting this year we will be Crossing 5,000 Cor rupees in the property tax collection thanks to what work we have done now and 25% jump in the property tax collections we expect in next 2 years to going from last year 4,000 CR to this year 5,200 CR to 6,700 CR next year um I mean I can explain if you

get into detail the sky is the limit to improving the things thank you very much thank you very much Manish and very important point because there's some some differences he has brought out uh with the Maharashtra approach while Maharashtra had problem in coordinating with the urban local bodies he says that you know they were perfect coordination between the survey and settlement department and the urban local bodies and that is the required second thing is that he said that you know the records actually property records of Municipal Corporation became de facto only sing became single truth

most probably in urban areas property records will be Tak will be used but only thing is that the difference in record of Rights in rural areas and urban records is that in rural areas record of Rights there is a specific provision that which gives it presumption of truth that entry in the land records will be presumed to be true unless proved otherwise and there is a whole process to challenge that entry and then get it corrected in Municipal records probably that process or that um support of law is not available so either that has to

be built into those tax records then probably they will be equivalent to record of Rights and because Municipal committees have interest in uh collecting tax they will be maybe that you know they are more interested in meting such kind of record so thank you very much now I will request excuse me sir I'm sorry to interrupt can I take a minute yes ladies and gentlemen um the secretary Mighty sh Krishnan has an important meeting so we'd like to thank you sir for taking out the precious time and agreeing to chair this session I request Shri

Vijay Kumar deputy secretary Department of land resources to please give you a token of appreciation from the Department of land resources [Applause] thank you so much sir your presence really was appreciated thank you I'd like the moderator to please carry forward this session sir thank you uh thank you very much now I would request Mr om prash Dr om prakash director land records of service Assam to make his presentation uh good morning all uh uh regarding modernization of Urban Land records in Assam I will uh focus on the what kind of uh you can say

Arrangements we are having and how we would like to go ahead uh so these as the pilot project do has selected uh uh around 100 100 towns in the country it has been given to towns from the Assam are being selected for that and the size of towns are very the if you see the total number of dogs are somewhere from 1500 to 26,000 and population is also vary from 21,000 to 1 lakh 177,000 now how uh if the in case of the Assam that we have already done a lot of work and one thing

I would like to focus is that in Assam unlike the other states the land records are with the revenue department so custodian of the land record is in for urban also it rather than the urban local bodies it's with the revenue department then the directorate of land records is the the same person is with the Inspector General of registration also so the coordination is normally very smooth in last few years since 2021 government has taken the lot of steps and including that the one called mission is called the mission vasundra under that lot of change

that include the technological changes as well as the can legislative changes have been taken place so things are quite smooth now and the resettlement operation in this town also have been taken in recent past so data is quite updated one uh so we are having uh these kind of maps we are having right now it's available with us that's including the village boundary World boundary Master bound master plan boundary and the high resolution satellite imagary is also available with us uh now what are the strength do we have one thing I have mentioned that the

leg the land records are available with the revenue department rather than with the urban local bodies then the optimum survey machineries are available with us we have recently hired 500 surveyor for the to to do the uh survey work in the entire State uh the we have also had the uh Manpower for the uh tesil also then the one G state of art GIS lab has been established uh so these are the and we have we have procured 1100 rowers also the rowers has been given in the field so now these 500 surve which we

have hired this team is doing the survey work in the field they have been properly trained and 30 surveyor supervisor have also been given so this is our art State ofth art GIS lab which is there sir uh they are having the 10 workstations are there the 20 uh highend desktop has been given then the proper storage facilities so just five I I I will finish within the time sir uh so uh these are the available and the what the activities the gis lab is doing sir the quality control of the D drone imaginary for

uh to be used for the resurvey of the cestal village as a base Maps special adjustment of the digital cadastral map for the revenue Villages of Assam and QC for the same has been done the uploading of the QC data into bua and 14,000 plus Maps we have already completed sir the QC of the survey data of the NC villes of Assam and finalization G data of The genc Villages has been completed the QC and archival HR sis of the entire Assam has been completed under the PM GTI shaki and digitization of the cestal map

and resettlement in three districts which were there were it was missing there we have completed that sir uh so now what would be there once this has been done so what would be there is that the uh QC QQ and QC of the survey data that we will do once this survey because the survey I'm talking about for those eight towns the teams will be visiting in the field sir because entire preparation has been done and the gis map this GIS lab is ready for do the back end work so these two task which will

be done in the coming coming days that is the Q and QC of the service data and the after q and QC process the corrected and final survey villages map will be uploaded in the bhuna along with the respected o or hsri and then the final extraction of the AI tool sir I will not go in this slide sir then sir map as a service sir uh it will be provided we have discussed it earlier in for these eight uh towns sir the we will do it proactively and for rest of the Town sir we

will plan whether to go at go as proactively or the you can say as a on the basis of the demand which will be done sir and as the S said that actual and special data of the land parcel once it has been it has been finalized it will be put into blockchain sir thank you so much sir thank you so thank you very much so you are using blockchain uh we will okay so uh thank you very much uh you you have well prepared uh for the for taking up these eight towns that is

good that you know and uh I think with your preparation maybe that you are able to complete the job as prescribed by the department of land records that you know in one year now I would request Miss anua Shasta commissioner land records government of mad Pradesh to make her presentation good morning everyone uh first of all I thank drr for providing me this opportunity and congratulate them on the very successful organization of this exchange of ideas as we all know accurate land records are the foundation for Effective spatial planning and sustainable Urban Development and special

data is all about where observations are in relation to each other so all of us know the power of wear three types of data textual spatial and transactions need to be seamlessly integrated with each other and geospatial Technology provides the best solutions for these uh with this in mind mad Pradesh has taken a lead in harnessing the potential of GEOS special technology for fostering good and efficient governance in the state madya Pradesh realized that data organization and legal framework go hand inand and we have made uh some rules and enactments like we have amended the

madya Pradesh land record uh code and uh provided that the map should be prepared on 1 is to 500 scale uh we have uh uh codified our survey rules and protocols uh Alpin has made has been made a part of our Kasra document um and also we have Incorporated the plot and block Concept in the Kasra document itself uh there's a uh we have also introduced the concept of sector which may or may not be coterminous with what it's a group of blocks um madya Pradesh has done a lot of work under the swamit scheme

and the process flow of swamit has been described by my uh colleague yesterday in his address uh from the uh mpsc DC site so I'll not go into the details but the process is end to end uh online and uh um legal sanctity has been given to the digitally uh kept record uh under the somit scheme we have so far completed the Drone fly and 25 lakh plus records have been uh prep pred and distributed and we uh hope that by the end of December we uh uh reach the scheme saturation part so there have

been a lot of learnings from the swamit process which we have used in our Urban survey efforts we have uh kept in mind that we have to safeguard government land also while uh keeping in mind the rights of uh the stakeholders I would like to delve on this slide in detail uh as as I've already said uh survey rules have been notified and highs Scale map and geometries are being used uh the legal Provisions made in the mplc uh apart from introduction of blot and plot concept also uh include the modification of our database schema

and referencing with earlier land parcel yesterday someone from IIT background asked a question about uh linking the uh Legacy records with the current records being made and uh we have made some effort in this regard uh the Kasra format has been amended so that the flow of uh the pushing of data becomes seamless uh the data has been published on our authorized uh bule portal uh a detailed exercise was undertaken in uh collaboration with the igr tncp map it and the uad department and under the signature of the principal secretary uad and revenue uh guidelines

have been uh notified for joint survey efforts uh block and plot concept have been simply uh have been successfully implemented in the suit scheme and they have been replicated in our Urban survey uh efforts in Haru we have completed four sectors uh out of the 17 sectors and in shahan uh we have completed the first publication for one sector uh madhya prades has earlier taken up 50 towns as was discussed yesterday and in 34 out of these 50 towns we completed drone fly feature extraction and athor rectification and in three of these we have completed

the ground truthing efforts the image that you see here is of Katara Hills bopal it is a drone image and the red lines depict the uh sectors and the small uh classifications they represent the block and the plots uh so a detailed uh Landscaping is being done uh using the modifications that we have made in the rules this is the uh Adar a or the record of right from shahan of seor district and you can see how uh the document includes the blog plot and the old Kasra references this is uh oror rectified image from

Haru town in Kana District the blue line that you are seeing is the Kasra overlay on this uh orthorectified image and these are the the yellow lines are the plots which we have obtained from feature extraction after being verified by the patwaris through the Sara app the RO details have been uh uh we have um Dara details we have achieved from the spatial intersection so the superimposition of feature extracted plots 1 is to 500 on Legacy Kasra map 1 is to 4,000 scale this is our effort to link the Legacy records with the current record

and in the uh previous slide I have shown how the old Kasra references have been earmarked on the adhikar abil we are using sophisticated Technologies for harnessing the special data uh 90 core stations have been commissioned in madhia Pradesh successfully and all of these are functional we have a separate uh State command control center established in poal at our mpsc headquarters and in addition to mapping we are also using the course services for fourth uh for DeMar aration and so far 4,000 plus demarcations have been performed 500 RS may be uh connect May connect at

a time at this state command and control uh Center we are also uh using special technology and other uh efforts like digital crop survey we have also engaged around 880,000 local youth for doing this survey exercise under the supervision of patwari and they have these uh 880,000 local youth have been provided orientation and training for the use of special technology we are using course drone scanning modern form of drone images Point tpk files server based data end to end computerized Enterprise datab based dashboard also there have been many learnings from the urban Sur survey exercises

there are many gaps and challenges and many dilemas some of these may be summarized as the documents that may established ownership like during the shahan exercise uh uh we received B bills ration card some uh letters from government and the registry documents uh regarding uh position issue uh there is a dilemma that whether the occupant is a tenant or uh an unauthorized occupant or the real owner there are many mismatches between the technical data and the actual data uh uh from the old records what should be the ideal threshold that is one issue old Kasra

versus plot the Legacy issues uh mostly in periurban areas uh like uh there are some instances where there are loans on agricultural land and how to settle these loans that is one issue uh income brances we are we are uh in madhya Pradesh also we are having seamless integration with other departments like igr uh the Sada 2 has been launched recently and U we are also having integration with the IT department with the urban the energy Department also uh and the uh civil courts also so ENC income brances we are trying to uh link with

this uh it is already being shown in our records but uh the issues of ownerships title the common areas how to uh uh the Define the ownership of common areas like balconies staircases Etc uh these are some issues or challenges or gaps that we realized and we are working on it and some of them are still gray areas so um these are some uh points to ponder during the exercise that we are going to have during the Naka initiative also so uh there is another dilemma that while we uh choose a pilot a pooc um

whether we should start with a per urban area where the need is more urgent or from the core of the city where things are already being settled an will you please kindly B up right sir we are using the technology we are harnessing the special technology in uh some of our apps like the seank app you can see some other sectors where are using this technology please some other initiatives that Madia prades has taken our cyber tasil and to an online mutation process integration with courts Banks and other departments as I've already told online mortgage

process online change in use or deemed diversion online services for ENC encumbrance certificates we are also working uh in collaboration with bisag and DLR for the GTI shaki efforts uh we are also having drives like rajas Maha Aban uh during which we uh ask our district collectors to um take care of the nakim or theti sudar the errors in records uh uh and as a drive uh lacks of matters are resolved uh during these uh drives so these uh are some of our efforts that I would like to share with you um all our uh

arars are 100% online uh and for public and are digitally signed we have 5.12 land Parcels in all and updated maps are available for 3.56 Cores of these Geo referencing has been completed in uh uh 55,0 48 Villages so there are Limitless possibilities and the ecosystem is already there we just need to harness the potential to the fullest uh in the end I would like to sum up that mad Pradesh is the heart of the state and uh we Endeavor that this heart keeps functioning well and uh we uh Endeavor to to put in our

best efforts to uh make madya Pradesh and India a seamlessly uh uh clear record uh maintaining system uh to be incorporated in all the states of uh India so thank you thank you for the opportunity thank you very much Anova thank you now I would request Mr Shri lar commissioner come director land records and Survey settlement department government of Andhra Pradesh to make his presentation yeah very good morning to all uh greeting to the moderator the fellow panelist and everybody of the Das uh we have taken up this res survey project in Andra Pradesh state

so I'll try to cover uh two important points like what we have already done and what we are planning to do as we go forward yeah the case might be similar in all states we had many issues with respect to land records uh yesterday one of the speakers was telling his grandfather's name was still continuing in the record or there are discrepancies in the uh survey numbers on ground or in the record there are differences even extents are varying in many places so uh it was decided that a complete resurvey of all the land records

for all three areas The Villages where the farm lands are there the abadi areas and under swamit as well as the uh urban areas now under naksha all these three areas land survey will be taken up a fresh a Geor referen uh survey will be taken up that was the decision taken so uh we went ahead with the uh process where uh the drones were used aircrafts helicopters were used during different times based on the uh efficiency of different uh mechanisms we went ahead with the Drone flying out of 16,8 20116 Villages that we have

in the state almost everything except for the hilly Teran where the Drone flying or the aircraft flying cannot be done we have flown drones everywhere 13,300 odd Villages where drone can be flown drone flying has been completed we have received the O Maps also and uh we are we have established the cor Network 70 base Stations of the c network are established throughout the length and breadth of the Andra Pradesh State uh which are giving us the actual uh gcp points with very high accuracy uh even before the Drone flying with the gcp points ground

control points we are mapping the uh drones also to the gcp point so that as and when the Ori is ready we get the uh each land parcel Geor reference land Parcels data is available to us so that solves that uh uh that resolves and uh reduces our works to a great lot this is the cost Network which is established throughout the State 70 Bas stations uh we have augmented uh apart from cost Network we have augmented our CES with the rowers also we have gnss R 3,640 rers were procured by the state government uh

in addition to that uh for field staff to work we have established certain data processing centers in the district level we have provided them with the high-end laptop so that the large amount of work that they have to do on the cadastral maps on the vectorization everything can be carried out so there should not be any uh uh problems with respect to the capacity of the devices uh even workstations uh the drones also we have procured subsequently because subsequently we have gone with the vendor approach instead of uh procuring all the drones vendors we have

empanel for doing the Drone flying yeah so we we are doing the uh initial work that we are doing is uh identification of the boundaries either Village Urban or abadi area boundaries so uh based on that the Drone flying takes up the shots uh when we are completing this uh this is the or map that we get which has the land tiles each and every tile is mapped uh which which has a Geo reference this is the most critical and most important uh process most important step in the whole process ground rothing as many of

us have been emphasizing on that the uh and time taking process also we go with the uh Geo reference maps to the field where each and every uh farmer is shown that your parcel is looking like this are you confirming this are there any problems so uh we we compare it with the existing record also as well as on ground position that is our basic Benchmark whatever is the position on the ground that is taken as the basis if somebody has somebody on the record is having let us say for example one acre but on

ground he is having 90 cents or on ground he is having 1 acre 10 cents then we go for whatever is on the ground if it is 90 cents then we will record it as 90 cents based on whatever is the Geor reference data coming up if it is 1 acre 10 cents we will record it as 1 acre 10 cents the farmers are told Farmers or the land owners they are told beforehand that we are not changing the boundaries of your land we are retaining whatever land you are holding we are not touching it

we are only changing the record based on your land land uh holding so that is the thing that uh there is a lots of convincing there is lots of uh uh give and take happening there because the farmers uh they are because they are seeing the uh uh benefit in all this uh activity similarly the example that yesterday somebody was told telling uh the grandfather's name or the father's names are continuing the owners are joint owners they don't have the boundaries decided uh uh in between themselves so in that case uh this this resurvey is

giving an opportunity to everybody to get their lands mutated in the present owners names this is a government initiative we are not uh charging anything to the farmers so people are coming forward uh so far we have completed around 6,600 Villages and around 1,300 abadi areas uh where this work has been completed and more than uh 10 lakh mutations have been carried out during this whole process so that that is acting as a biggest uh draw for the uh whole process because people are coming forward themselves saying that in our village in our abadi area

the process has to be taken up why it is not yet taken up so that acts as a kind of a demand driven rather than a top top down driven uh system slowly uh it has it has cashed up upon like like that so this is the ground truthing process then based on the ground truthing we are preparing the uh Maps we are uh we are issuing the uh we are allotting the land uh land parcel numbers to each and every tile Geo reference tiles yeah ground validation again once this record is prepared we go

back to the uh owners we show them that this is the new LPM number getting allotted to you all this process is being uh done uh by issuing the proper notices under the act the surveys and boundaries act we have to issue the notices to them we we have to get their feedback if they are agreed then only we can go ahead or there is a process of arbitration a mobile magistrate which has been deployed by the state state government for each of the uh taluks they have to resolve these Grievances and then only they

can go forward very minuscal cases less than 1% even after all these process have followed they are not able to satisfy then there is option of finally the civil suits have to be done and these cases anyways are existing in the present land record so uh apart from those less than 1% cases everything else gets resolved City G you have to wind up yes so as I explained this is the final record that will be prepared uh based on the uh notices that are given and the participative process including gram saa's conducted this is the

final record every single land parcel is Geo referenced we give a record of right like this after after the resurvey is over where each and every uh land owner will have their Geor reference Maps the field measurement books which are provided to them and all the details with correlation of the previous surve numbers also is given to them so that in case of Legacy issues in case of uh valuation of the lands that can be carried out without any problems this is the participative process we have taken up same process in the urban areas urban

areas we have started a bit late so only uh one of the towns we have completed the complete process the uh standard operating procedure is same there is no uh change except for in urban areas as well as above the areas one problem that we are facing is there are multi-story building so here we are not creating a digital twin per se as yesterday some of the speakers were explaining we are only creating the land record we are creating the footprint of the building we are taking only the land records on top of that the

uh local bodies either the pchs or the municipal bodies they will build up their property tax records subsequently so only the uh land records are getting prepared so this is the same process same standard operating process for the urban areas also we have completed uh issuance of property cards in a few of the towns Tali gam is one of the first pilot project towns that we had done and apart from that 1371 abadi areas which are very uh similar in urban aspects so there also we have issued the property cards thank you so much thank

you thank you very much uh sries so now I would invite uh Miss Kavita pad padavan commissioner and secretary Housing and Urban Affairs government of ham thank you sir good morning everyone uh today all our deliberations have been on modernization of uh Urban Land records and digitization and I think a natural corer of that would be in terms of digitization and having a robust uh property tax uh database so today my entire uh case study basically would be on how we've digitized the entire property tax database in Assam for around 8 9 ulbs and what

exactly are the benefits that have accured to us and what we intend doing in the days to come exactly yeah uh this is just to give a perspective uh Asam has a population of about 3.12 crores and we are a very small component of that we are just around uh 43 lakhs which accounts for around 16% of the population and this population is divided amongst four towns of which we have two municipal corporations and if you see the classification of towns a majority of those are those which are less than 50,000 population uh when we

come to the issues that plague the ulbs uh it's I'm think you know across all the you know ulbs across the country which is we have low collection rates in most of the cases there are manual records as well as in adequate manpower to go and actually do that collection am I doing it correct can somebody just help so when we started off this entire trajectory of reforms this was in the year 2022 uh what we had was that almost all the towns had a manual uh database there was not enough records the records pertain

to almost 1970s and 80s and reassessment which is a prerequisite for every ulb every 5 years had not been done for done for a very long time and out of these 104 ulbs 18 of those had not started collecting property tax either and since Assam is also uniquely placed there is a constitutional Mandate of six schedule areas 13 of these ulbs also fall within the autonomous council districts which have very specific Provisions so this is just to give again an indic ation of when the reassessment was done so barring one ulb which was on track

the rest of them had not done done their reassessment exercise and we had ridiculous property tax rates of 1 rupee and even 50 PESA in certain ulbs so this is the way in which we went forward sometime in June of 2022 we started this pan Asam exercise for all 103 ulbs baring ghati which already had a digitized database there was a cabinet approval for this and uh keeping the district Commissioners as the falr the entire survey exercise was started in uh July of 2022 and uh This was done through self assessment camps to begin with

and thereafter ground truthing was done by the uh ulb functionaries on the field and this entire exercise was completed in a record time of 6 months so while we started in July by March of 2023 we had completed this exercise and the final notification was issued in the month of April so what we could achieve was that 89 ulbs could finally notify their property tax rates and this included 18 ulbs which would start collecting tax for the first time and this covered about 1,131 ulbs so while we did so the detailed sop was issued there

was a reclassification of Roads there was computation of uh the land values based on the current rates there were self assessment caps as I've mentioned and these are just some pictoral representation of the survey done and while we did so we did it on a background of GIS so the entire exercise was done through a phone app there was an assessment done on the field and we were able to capture a lot of data alongside the details of the property tax holder we also did an integration with the uh APD sale which is the power

Distribution Company database and this UPI I mean this API integration was also done with them and the right hand side basically shows you the uh GPS coordinates of every single property tax holder these are the details of the 18 ulbs which did their assessment for the first time and uh subsequent to this exercise from somewhere around 348,000 uh uh property tax within I mean uh IDs we moved to around 5 lakh plus uh IDs within this short period of time the collection also improved year on-ear to about 46% so from uh you know a collection

rate which was around 37 cror for these smaller ulbs it jumped to around 64 cres within this period of time and this is just an idea of how the property tax database looks like the the dashboard which can be seen at multiple levels both for the ulb functionaries the executive officer of the ulb and also at a higher level at the directorate of Municipal Administration and what we've achieved is an entire n2n GIS based tax register which are geotag along with the photograph so we not just have the detailing of the property but also have

the photograph of the property there is a unique number which identifies every single property and as I mentioned there is real-time integration with the apdcl consumer base and today the entire property tax collection happens online so wherever people have a limitation in terms of paying their taxes online there is a possibility of giving cash as well but the Mandate is that within 24 hours that data needs to be uploaded onto the portal these are some of the gis enabled features that we have the photograph on the top basically talks about the dots these are every

single property and it gives us a detailing of who has paid their tax on time so when there is a collector who goes to the field he knows exactly who's the person who's paid tax save for about a quarter maybe two quarters three or finally or somebody who hasn't paid and the one below is basically at a ward level so while the one on top talks about a pan ulb level you can also zero in at award level for every tax uh tax collector and it is also integrated with GIS I mean with Google Maps

so today you can actually in case there is a collector who does not belong to the ulb but has been been taken up on contractual basis he can actually make his way to the concerned person's house for collection of taxes on the right hand side what we've tried to also do is to use this data for better management so what we tried the last two years was to give a database so today sitting in ghati for example or in any of your ulbs you get the data of who are the tax offenders the highest tax

offenders say for commercial taxes which can be you know sorted out for a highest to lowest and if you concentrate on the top 10 offenders or the top 10% offenders there is a possibility of you increasing your taxation you know collection rates immediately similarly on the top right hand side what we've also done is integrated this particular data with a trade license uh portal as well so today if there is somebody who's applying for a trade license the prerequisite is for you to give your property tax uh ID unless and until that is done it

doesn't move forward uh this is basically some of the year-on-year developments and as somebody ear had also mentioned this is only a you know a tool a digitization tool what happens thereafter is you know in terms of simplification and ease to the uh you know the consumers as well as the citizens has to move forward and there have been issues going ahead as well especially in terms of Manpower as well as infrastructure but we've tried to you know address this one year at a time and uh we've seen a trajectory of almost 46% collection rates

and this time around we are expecting that the tax RTI you know the colle election rates would increase substantially compared to 23 24 as well please yes sir these are just the last couple of slides in addition to this we what we've also done is to do the lighter survey for around 12 towns the major towns and the idea was that we uh you know use this data for the purpose of creation of drainage Master plans considering the amount of artificial flooding that happens and we've been able to you know get the digital elevation model

for these 12 towns and this in turn would be integrated with the survey and the ground Tru thing which we intend doing in association with the revenue department when we are integrating both the Urban Land records as well as the property tax database this is some of the infrastructure utility mapping that is permissible uh through the system and also you know we are going online with the online building permission system very soon and this would also have a facility of change detection which is happening through our G portal so these are some of the additional

functionalities that we intend doing in the next uh uh couple of months to come and this is the way forward which I'll you know leave along to you thank you thank you very much uh K or like you know this is the situation that you know like you know they have to build their tax record and tax computerization without the speciaal record now probably with the this this project the when the records are made then all these uses all these uh application can be built upon That Base map which may not be existing in many

of the Cities so now uh we have finished uh and and I'm thankful to the panelist that they have kept time and we have finished quite in time and there are 10 minutes when we can take questions from the audience so kindly yes please uh my question to sudhansu sir sir you have shown an example where uh the multi-story building and the ownership is being recorded So uh my question is that uh uh there are two things one is the uh possession of that particular property with some owner which is the carpet area but at

every floor there is a common area uh which is being uh used by the all the occupants of that particular floor as well as uh the common area which is there in this society which is maybe uh three four five buildings or blocks are there and uh which is being used by the resident of that particular society so how do we address uh those areas about the ownership records in the ownership records uh Sanu [Music] sir uh so as we understand the land record only deals with the uh with the land first of all so

uh one thing is very sure that we have the boundary as well as the area and extent of the land now there's a building over it and there are multiple ownerships for a society which is a which is a which is an institution under under some statute uh the land is owned by the society so the name of society appears as appears as owner now within that Society there are members who own individual or who are occupiers of individual uh Flats now as of now what we have given the facility in our uh property card

is to note the carpet area as well as the ownership of the tenament so these are the two facility as of now has been given now what we what we are going to do in future which is pending with the government now is coming up with the vertical property rules in that rule all the other kind of ownership like common ownership as you are mentioning both within the land boundary or also within the building will be mentioned so for example in uh in case of flat Owners Association the common areas have a percentage of ownership

so that will be mentioned as it is mentioned in the Deeds uh even today we mention it but it is not demarked in the form of a boundary so if you have a flat Owners Association under the mofa then you'll be able to uh mention not only the ownership of the flats but also the uh ownership percentage of each owner in the common area however you'll not have the demarcation of the common area because we have not gone to the extent of demarketing uh within that overall boundary demarketing the individual uh land Parcels meaning uh

the common areas thank you so basically I think every state has to do that because for Iran areas you have to create laws and I think many states have apartment acts but they may not be specifying all these things so in those this has to be specified that how the common areas will be dealt how the ownership will be recorded whether Position will be recorded or what can be the ownership and what will happen when the building is rebuilt or something so all those things because they are doing survey so all those things have to

come under the some other law please some other questions yeah uh my question is I think maybe sudhansu or kav can answer this is regarding the the ownership of I mean there are three or four departments we work we have Urban bodies we have rural bodies we have survey we have Revenue so number one is what kind of coordination formal mechanism in a state where you all the Departments are at one platform they talk to each other formally what is the legal framework you have to adopt the technology in your rules and uh and lastly

the the ownership of whatever generate you generate records or the surve surve records or the land Records who owns up the records okay let me uh try to answer your question this is the issue uh basically we have to see what we are making so if we are making record record is a very generic word so in rural areas we make record of rights which is governed by a Revenue Act and in that Revenue Act responsibilities are given similarly when Municipal committee is making tax records normally we take that as a ownership record but actually

it is a tax record so in their Municipal act the responsibilities are given now so some Department like are now when the actually this scheme is implemented this has to be decided whether we are making primarily the tax record as Municipal committee is making under the municipal act or we want to make record of Rights depart okay okay Department especially in the bigger State when you have Rue department they have own mandate they have a Serv department so they have own we own what the mechan number two legor number I was to know is the

department doing survey and then the survey used by other department Urban or rural body for creating records maybe land records or property records and doing assessment for the property I just wanted to understand what kind of mechan mahra M in we have gone and we have visited through districts our so your point is very correct sir what we do of course it can vary from state to state what we decided to do was to take it to cabinet so once it goes to cabinet and there is a dictat which comes in all the Departments already

come in together like even our own reassessment exercise we hardly had any Manpower of our own but because of cabinet decision the district commissioner or The Collector as he's called in other places he became the falr for this entire exercise so this is where we had utilized the cabinet as a way of bringing all the Departments together a concern Department may I add uh so uh with respect to it is very clear in our uh mlrc the land Revenue code which also has City survey part is that the ownership though it is presumptive the uh

the responsibility of uh noting the ownership lies with the land records department this is very very clear now for the purpose of tax and property tax the tax is livid to the occupier it is not the proof of the ownership So to that extent that power lies with the urban local bod the corporations now how do we come together that's a question uh now we are integrating the building plan management system with our land record is already integrated now the survey also is being integrated meaning the boundaries uh the boundary demarcation part is also being

integrated with the building plan management system so now if you apply for any building plan approval your data will actually go from our land record data which which will initially have the data of ownership of land if there is a building the data of ownership of the flats also and the so Society also will go so we hope that in future these two data will always be in sync and we will be able to correct in land records we'll be able to correct our data based on property tax data and they will be able to

uh take our data and work on it so we hope that this integration will bring a lot of uh breaking down of silos thank you any other question please please yeah can I yes please go ahead yes I am Jean Philip from uh the French uh National mapping Authority um I I was really impressed really by your your presentation I have been working in Bangalore as I've already say 20 years back and I was far to uh realize that today generate 6,000 cres if I'm not wrong as a revenue it's incredible so congratulation for that

I had one questions because one of the issues that we were facing at that point of time was that the absence of a street addressing system and the way the street addressing system is connected with all those systems you are building up now how does it works uh do you have Street addressing system in the various states in the various ulbs is it a matter of concern for you if if it is not the case thank you thank you sir uh I would mention that what's the point has been raised uh Street addressing system if

I understood it correctly it's a very genuine Point first of all frankly I don't think it is fully solved uh the approach is to assign a polygon for each inch of a state in my view particularly in Bangalore when I was in survey Department what we did was as a part of the survey every 250 M we'll create a polygon for the road also rather than leaving it unsurveyed nothing would be left unsurveyed so that approach I believe Works presently we have an approximate system in Bangalore wherein the streets have been Geor referenced and digitized

by the Karnataka State remote sensing application center we use it but that is not a legal street map generally I just will finish saying that generally what happens is the street is defined by the boundary of the neighboring private or the polygon or a property which has been measured so street is a byproduct of what is left out but a better approach I definitely believe is that street by itself should have its own exact polygon and a legal sketch which is not that difficult once you are on a uh uh what do you call it

a drone based Rover driven polygon creation so I mean that that is doable say on your passort what is the name of your uh sorry by Street addressing if you take your ID card what is the name of your street what is the number of your of your of your buildings it's the you see what I mean because I do remember that it was a landmark approach I'm I'm living near the the shops just in front of the uh you see the temple and it was a way and the straight addressing system is is a

common way to to get uh I mean uh oriented in the city and uh which has to be shared between the various utilities and does that do we have addressing General addressing system in all the ulbs in India thank you so only one thing I'll mention other than having a legal map of the street in Bangalore today in the new system and previously also every property we have marked on what which street it is coming 1 lak 10,000 streets in Bangalore have been digitized in Geor reference though not to a legal value so properties are

tagged to those streets their property taxes are collected based on those streets where they fall and uh now in the new system we have just rolled out the neighborhood of as we call chakbandi of each property we are insisting we are approaching it in a collaborative way we are allowing the citizen to select the street from from my 1 lak 10,000 streets then I am asking him to also name the street in which his property falls plus I'm giving him the force properties around him and additionally I'm asking he can give me a better information

he has so over next few months and years this system will keep improving just to add to it and I'm sure this is going to be the case in all Urban local bodies it's the Mandate of the ulb to name a street here as well as give a door number or a number to the house so as in when properties get added on somebody from the ulb would typically go and give a unique number to that particular door or ID I'm presuming that was the question but it may not be existing so efficiently it may

not be happening so efficiently in all the cities but there are some cities follow this system hello yeah last sir yeah thank you thank you for the insightful discussion my name is Dr anud Roy I'm represent Genesis we have doing plenty of work with a manned and unmanned aircrafts now my question and suggestion both are here typically uh and this arrows from the Andra presentation which I saw very nicely depicted that after the O is created you validate in the ground with the local survey team now the typical process which we found here and this

is across the states there's a hard copy is printed and people go to the field and check it now in the digital India movement if the budgets are allocated to at least create the tab based or the smartphone based data and the issue let me highlight whenever the surveyor goes there and typically the requirement comes in such a way that all uavs or M aircraft there should not be any cloud cover there should not be any shadows and that's a standard practice copy and paste everywhere it is happening very rightfully whosoever has done it practically

when we found along with of India that as a part of the process when you print the maps from the o a dark patch comes and you will not be in a position to validate in the ground because this data that you're creating from the oi is just a reference data everything is getting validated through the Rovers if you zoom in you will actually find the burns and the other areas which are coming in so my suggestion is that if the budget permits it will be a good practice to include the tab based Digital Data

verification rather than the paper based thank you yeah I'll just respond to that uh yeah very uh correctly observed so just to resolve it uh uh in a local way what we are doing is instead of printing the whole Ori at one go for sending people for the ground truthing or the ground validation we are cutting it into parts we are taking only small parts zoomed zoomed in parts so that each land parcel is clearly visible and at the same time we are also sending of course with the scarcity of the uh tabs or laptops

is there but wherever possible in most of the cases where the uh complexities are more we are sending both the printed Maps as well as the laptops on the ground while doing the ground truthing and ground validation so that immediately if there is any change in the uh coordinates to be done or uh within the two land Parcels there is a boundary which is 1 ft wide and the tile has been calculated on the left side of the the polygon side has been taken on the left side of the boundary instead of in the middle

so we can make those changes on the ground in the laptop itself and it will be reflected into the vectorization of the overall Village map so dividing it into smaller maps for the flexibility and facilitative purpose that is also being done and we are sending laptops tabs also on the ground wherever it is more complex scenarios are there to resolve this issue thank you so much my suggestion is only that this is a recommendation and a suggestion from the industry it is not only for Andra and it has not been done that's what I'm telling

it has to be a practice if possible please include that in the budget thank you thank you very much so now uh we will uh close the discussion and I thankful to all the panelists they have they have they have given the experience of their estate their Innovation carried out by them and then problems faced by them which is certainly we will be a very good learning experience for all the people who are doing this thing or who will be doing the this um Urban Land records in future I'm very thankful to Department of land

uh resources uh to give me an opportunity to interact with so many um experts and then practitioners and I have also learned a lot about these states thank you very much [Applause] thanks sir I please request you to remain seated right now yes thank you so we appreciate your dedicated efforts into making this session as informative and giving as it was thank you sir may I please request the moderator to hand over a token of appreciation to all the panelists I'll name them um can we start with Mr sries B lar please Miss anubha shasu

so uh sir Miss anubha shast Miss Kavita padmanaban Dr om prakash Mr Manish mudgil and Mr enk sudhansu thank you so much sir now we may please request Mr Vijay Kumar deputy secretary Department of land resources to please come upon the stage and felicitate the moderator of the session Mr BK Agarwal please thank you so much sir with this we have concluded the fourth session of this International Workshop now we will break for a short te break and we will assemble back here at 12 Sharp request all of you to have a group picture please

12 12:00 sharp we will start again please assemble here again for the last session of the day then we will have a closing session looks this has to be either thank you so much sir thank you sir thank you thank you we have to test this if if the if that is a line so this is not a line kishish hello guys okay [Music] [Music] way uper AR say guess spe oh minute phone for spe for n min Swami [Music] foree than for take but take lock take okay spe spe [Music] contr speak you font

spe h EXP spe ch for spe IM for I e e for sh than sir I request everyone to please assemble again we are starting the session may we request Mr ainash Mishra Mr shakar Singh Dr Vin takur Mr SK Sinha Mr satam Mohan Mr P madhusudhan ready to please come up on the stage and take their seats for be start okay may I please request uh the moderator Dr deina kundru to please come up on the stage yeah good afternoon ladies and gentlemen I hope you're feeling caffeinated well caffeinated after the coffee break now

let's begin the fifth session the fifth and the last session for the day I'll introduce the topic harnessing spatial data for property Taxation and urban planning case studies for this session Dr deina kundu is moderating the session I'll introduce ma'am a brief in a brief Dr debolina kundu is currently serving as director additional charge at National Institute of urban Affairs under the ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs government of India with an experience of 25 years of uh professional experience in development studies he specialized in urbanization migration governance and Municipal Finance I welcome you on

the stage ma'am ma'am I request you to moderate the session and please begin the session with the speakers thank you ma'am a very good afternoon to all the esteemed guests distinguished panelists and esteemed colleagues who have joined us today it's an honor to moderate the session uh on harnessing special data for property Taxation and urban planning where we will dive into the EV evolving landscape of geospatial Technologies and their crucial role in urban planning Urban finance and specifically Urban Land record management in the context of India's urbanization we are presented with immense opportunities and significant

challenges as most of you are aware the cities which we built today must not only meet the needs of our current population but also be resilient and adaptable to the Future urban planning and Land Management needs to be proactive smart and inclusive geospacial Technologies including GIS Earth observation data and digital twins are reshaping how we understand design and manage our Urban spaces in India I think these Technologies are ready to make a difference in cities where realtime GIS data is being used to monitor infrastructure projects and improve Service delivery including Land Management the potential to

scale these Innovations Nationwide is immense especially as we integrate emerging Technologies like AI drones and iot in our urban planning Frameworks by using realtime data and predictive analysis I think we can address the complex challenges of Urban Land record management the chair for today's session is s shinas kaik kilala secretary Housing and Urban Affairs who is likely to join us uh in a few minutes uh we also have six distinguished panelist for this session SRI abinav Mishra and is from the 2018 batch of the chattis gar cader and is currently serving as the commissioner of

rur municipality in his role he has been actively involved in implementing significant Urban Development initiatives particularly focusing on public health and urban amenities his recent efforts include launching of action plan aimed at enhancing public health and utilizing vacant spaces for sports activities under his leadership the RMC has initiated collaborations with organizations like the the Indian Oil Corporation to install electric vehicle charging stations across the city uh I call upon you sir to make your presentation you have 10 minutes start uh good afternoon uh respected secretary sir uh JS sir uh all the dignitaries in the

podium and every all the invitees uh I'll start with uh this is abinash and I'm working as Municipal commissioner rur uh I'll give a brief overview many things have been already talked about especially the gis and I'm just I'll talk about the brief overview uh the gis survey we took in 201819 then we added up it with many other it reforms like uh ddn digital uh door number and then we added up with uh more rur F and we gave many other services so that along with property tax people people can aval many other services

and uh we'll talk about the ongoing projects uh especially the reforms we are taking in uh Urban property domain so next uh so uh sir we take uh we took the we did the uh GIS survey in 2 uh 200 1516 onward it was a World Bank funded project uh you can see the urban property tax collection in those years uh 2015 to 2029 it was a flat curve because uh there was surveyed uh the survey was done but again we could not Implement because there was much resistance due from the political year the actual

implementation took uh from 2021 onwards when covid took uh when covid break out that time uh so we uh about the about the gis already the already the previous uh speakers have already briefed about uh the the same thing uh the same thing we have done especially uh we made a 54 layers of GIS survey and every property have been surveyed uh around 3 3 and half lakh properties we have assessed and uh uh and we gave them unique ID uh few other reforms were added after the gis reform we added the ddn numbers digital

door number so uh just like everyone has Adar every household has one ddn number and uh most of the most of the households those who were surveyed and assessed they have been given digital door number it got a national uh National leag governance award also next we went up uh next we went up with uh more rur app because uh giving uh giving uh ddn number is one thing but ensuring the citizens get uh various Services uh especially from Urban Department food department and many other departments uh so we introduced more raur app and through

this we gave null connection with we ensured that through this more raur app they can go for uh Naka they can they can pass their Naka and along with that they can uh they can go for they can pay their electricity bill and uh they can book LPG so many other reforms we introduced along with uh this GS survey next next uh recently we have introduced with the uh this WhatsApp chatboard and we are broadcasting uh broadcasting every because we have uh every household around three and half lakh property holders mobile number and uh through

this WhatsApp broadcasting we are sending the bills uh sending their due amount to every uh uh to uh to their mobile number and we have integrated it with phone pay and various other UPI platform and uh through this people can easily people can easily pay their property taxation uh this is the last month collection uh around uh 70% collection with did through WhatsApp broadcasting so uh the uh directly I am coming into the outcomes of all these uh reforms especially GIS then ddn then uh WhatsApp bought and more rur first thing is that uh the

number of properties the number of properties they have gone up around 50% there is uh uh uh there is growth then City previously the tax assess assessment of tax session us to around 42 hours and uh currently people can easily easily the from starting from assessment to payment it takes hardly 2 minutes so this is this is a this is a curve we can see after the implementation of this curve we have seen exponential growth and we are expecting around 20% 20 to 30% compound uh growth in property taxation uh this is basically the next

reforms uh this is not a way forward the ongoing reforms we are doing and uh the things will take in the future time first one is that HMS holding management system this is also a very crucial part in land deform land deform uh system second one is that uh maybe the utility services it's a it's very crucial especially considering the urban infrastructure uh uh Urban infrastructure management we have to map the utility services because every time we see any kind of cable work or if you have to lay pipelines we need this Cru information then

uh we have to do we have to integrate the gis with the Town and Country planning we are were working on this one and there is there are still since uh uh since Urban survey is a continuous process and we took the last survey in 2018 around we need to reassess and need we need to Res survey uh our uh our Municipal properties especially we have SE we have we have estimated we have a rough estimation around 40% of unss properties this is basic uh uh this is basic HMS system online holding management system uh

we are we are already working with uh because uh because uh we have we have seen that uh only 2,000 this is a recent uh we have we are doing uh we are doing end to end end to end end to end system for this HMS holding management system people the uh people can directly apply for any kind of holding and they can directly they can pay they can pay their bills also and uh this this is a way we can do the we can ban the illegal holding and we can uh we can increase

our revenue for threefold or fourfold this year mapping of utility services this is very crucial especially for tier 2 and tier three cities many tier one cities have already done because there is there are so many projects already undergoing under Smart City or Mission Amit because there are so many utility ducts like water pipeline then land Telecom data cable and electric C cable they are they are being laid and uh this need to be resurveyed and we we are working on this and we need actually we need some especially financial support for this utility services

then uh we need to integrate we need to integrate the the gis we are working on especially integrating the integrating the gis data and the we need we we have to go for a leader survey especially for tncp reforms a lot of things can be done uh a lot of things can be done especially the verification of uh irregular uh ver verification of the unauthorized buildings regularization everything can be done uh we are working on this one one more yes ma'am and uh this is basically uh ma'am uh this will be this will be the

this will be the future plan especially after 6 months uh uh after 6 months we can we can see this way uh along with GIS reform there will be lot of there will be SLE of it reforms uh there will be it uh reforms which uh rur Municipal Corporation will under take and we'll integrate everything starting from tncp reforms holding management uh then utilities deducts everything we will do and uh this is basic uh uh uh this is basic uh steps we have given for especially for tncp reform uh and uh regulation this is Financial

for this is a financial this is financial estimation we have given for SLE of reforms that we have to undertake uh so that we have to move Beyond uh GIS and we have to go for Airborne survey and along with that we have to especially we have to go beyond the property tax we have to work especially for holding management system we have to integrate with the tncp system uh Town and Country planning uh uh module thank you everyone thank you Mr Mishra for acquainting us with rur pionering implementing implementation of GIS based uh drone

service and digital property tax collection I think I think it's a remarkable achievement to have implemented these reforms that have boosted the daily collections from 2 lakhs per day to 8 to n lakhs per day I think the city's efforts have been nationally recognized with the Pres prestigious national e-governance uh award 2023 which makes the wave that has been envisaged for the state even more exciting I now invite SRI shakar Singh Municipal Commissioner of P pimp chinar uh Municipal Corporation to present PM MC's uh efforts with modern surveying Tech techniques sir you have 10 minutes

yeah respected dignitaries on the Das and in the audience uh very good afternoon as abinash was also just saying a lot of things have been discussed uh uh lot of things have been discussed since morning uh as well and I'm assuming yesterday also with regards to the various things that have happened in GIS in terms of surveying and how they have helped unlock the immense potential that exists in terms of the financial acral that can ACR to the municipal corporations I would't really go into the problem statement the problem statement is largely the same for

everyone uh the basic issue was incomplete database not GIS based uh Revenue loss from unassessed properties uh inaccurate addresses outward uh uh bound W boundaries were not very very clear and whole entire taxation system was largely little bit outdated in terms of what we did it's a step-wise journey that pcmc could take uh we started uh with the liar survey which really happened in the smart city where uh an entire GIS based platform has been created right from base map preparation to also property survey and a total Enterprise application has been formed where a citizen

Geo portal also we've tried to device uh so much so that the GTI Shakti portal is now moving into the urban areas pcmc already uh from 2020 we have GIS platform with more more than 300 layers and the kind of potential that it is unlocking for the city is absolutely great right from Poole mapping right from fixing the responsibility of the Pooles onto the contractors the DLP so it has got multiple uses that we able to do and lar survey also we conducted uh with regards to the smart city as well uh which helped us

detect a lot of uh unauthorized construction uh it specifically helps us in detecting the vertical unauthorized construction someone might have taken permission for only two floors but now currently he's made third floor fourth floor also in terms of identifying the Holdings throughout the city which ones are legal which ones are illegal has also been a good efficiency that has come through the lia survey uh so basically it becomes a very comprehensive property inventory uh which gives a good amount of uh tool in the hand of the city in terms of the total GIS I won't

go into uh the numbers but we've tried to map each and every asset that is there in the city right from uh your drainage to your water supply and what you have may almost about 300 plus layers uh a a whole vast network of Roads drainages electric poles water tank has been already mapped in terms of the pro limitations we observe that the liar survey itself has few limitations it does not give you the top view it cannot you cannot compare uh the building plans that have been approved through building plan management system and how

it it it is in terms of the footprint currently on the ground so there were a few incomplete data issues there were some bounding issues there were some missing properties which we could not leverage as far as the ligher data was concerned and then we started to think that probably we need to go a step ahead uh moving on from lar we also started with satellite imagery uh satellite imagery definitely did give us few benefits with regards to uh as compared to the lia survey We Could reconstruct and resequence our gut and Zone boundaries which

was itself a big issue in pcmc uh the figure is not very clear but if you see the left figure they're all randomly numbered guts we could resequence them now this becomes very important when you start to collect when you start to go on the ground and for the gut lipix The Zone lipics it becomes something which is very looks like very pedric but it looks uh it it it it becomes very important when you go on the field in terms of ground ground uh truthing Etc uh so we could also have a property monitoring

in terms of the unassessed properties the illegal properties and the encroached properties uh earlier the geotagging was uh through a DOT Theory wherever you find a new property you number it so if it was till 100 and suddenly 101 would come next to one so it was a bit of a it was a bit of a chaos but with zot taging coming in from satellite data we could properly uh geotag we could properly sequence the properties and uh we could uh cover uh 100% in terms of the onfield out to Door abinash also just mentioned

the up ID which a lot of cities are doing nothing uh special that we have done but it's leveraging on what up ID can uh really help in terms of uh what the city can leverage and this is the kind of coding that we've given which helps us even the the the space that you see in the middle it's a current vacant plot tomorrow if a property comes there we can adjust this into a code system so that the sequences sequencing become a bit more uh methodical in terms of GIS based property system uh the

entire property each and every property uh is currently on a GIS based web portal where the entire details of the property uh what is the area how much property tax was there what are the other details the carpet area Etc is being all embedded onto the gis based platform we also backed it up uh very very crucially very critically required with an on-site survey and internal measurement which then helped us leverage and move beyond the footprint that we were getting from the satellite data we also started creating this QR code again a practice that has

been followed by some other cities as well uh but there was still some challenges with regards to uh using of the satellite imagery in terms of the uh boundary demarcation the satellite data is generally about 1 to 2 year old which creates its own issues in terms of we are also trying to go forward with regards to encroachment removal with regards to seeing how much new property change has happened there were some photo pretry errors also that we realized when we were using uh uh the satellite data so there was a whole requirement which we

thought that in terms of the accuracy and efficiency also uh uh the kind of uh the scale that you get on satellite is something we probably can go a step ahead so the last phase that we've now come on to is in terms of the Drone imagery and drone gives you a lot of advantages uh which are probably a bit of a problem in terms of what the satellite data gives you first and foremost important is the kind of scale that we get we get a image which is 3 cm down up to that scale

and it's it's it's a it's a process that we can repeat every 6 to 7 months uh obviously there's a cost involved in that but definitely the benefits far outweigh the cost that we would have to go take I won't go into the benefits of UAV drone serving U I'm sure everyone of this August Gathering Gathering is already aware about that but in terms of conducting property survey and management uh in the past 6 months we've completed the entire drone survey of our city it has begun to throw up data which is much better than

the satellite imaging that we got and we are not limiting ourselves only uh only to uh the property taxation obviously that was the whole focus with which we started it but in the morning also sudhansu s was mentioning and in Maharashtra the property uh record management is very very clear revenue does it but we are now using uh along with the uh settlement commissioner office also we'll be utilizing this property uh this drone survey data for the property uh remaining property cars which are yet to be issued in the city and these are the kind

of you know Pro BPR that we did also with regards to our forms with regards to our bills with regards to how we maintain the property the entire layout of a single property is being uh already digitized and entire details in terms of what is available uh we arthor rectified the images again I will not go into it uh we faced a bit of a challenge in terms of drone because pcmc has almost about five defense areas all around the city uh there were a lot of challenges in terms of getting permission from dgca and

getting permission from the defense authorities but we could get it uh we started last year we got the permission in June this year and with those permissions uh we could uh go forward there were few issues with regards to lwh height restriction because almost our entire city is very near to the airport and it comes in the air funnel so all those uh issues we could paper over uh initiated the process of survey planning some regulatory compliances Etc and the Drone survey was started drone surveys started to throw up many many benefits for the city

uh in terms of encroachment identification in terms of uh trying to correlate this data now with the bpms AutoCAD data that we have for the footprint and trying to understand what over and Beyond the building permission the particular property holder has uh gone for and most importantly it has helped us find unassessed properties I'll be showing a data uh in the next few slides so this is the slide uh which is possibly the outcome of this entire exercise that we started somewhere around 2021 and have completed this year initially we had About 6.35 lakh Properties

annual demand of about 71 CR that is considering that even our property taxation has not been assessed for the past about 7 to 8 years now and we are under the process of reassessment now but apart from the reassessment as well from 6.35 lakh we could go to 8.54 lakh that's almost an addition of about 2.7 lakh unassessed properties which were not there in our net before but after the Drone survey are now in our net so we have almost sorry not 2.7 2.3 lakh properties uh 2.53 lakh properties which were unassessed and that has

added an additional 350 CR in our annual demand 50 CR additional in terms of the retrospective tax tax revenues from this 2.53 lakh properties through the ground survey we could find 0.7 lakh 70,000 under assessed properties also uring in a benefit of about 150 CR uh so a total of current demand change of about 72% as far as the last demand is concerned in the past last two years we've been able to go from 628 CR in terms of the total property tax acral in 2122 to last year where we had 977 CR a jump

of almost about 59% this year we are targeting about 1,200 CR which will be a good jump from where we were in 2021 before which the graph had almost plateaued there was no major jump that was happening but uh liar backed with drone Etc has helped us uh bridge that Gap the final uh advantage uh which other speakers have also said and which is sort of like a dream for any city is to combine this entire thing bring it into an integrated story uh we it into a single story where we say that this is

the unique property ID as munish s was mentioning with regards to bbmp I think we are also going ahead still not finalized but trying to convince our electric utility to also start loading everything onto the up IDs so that the acrel benefits that can come can come very rapidly uh as I already mentioned the building plan management system is already integrated now with the Drone Imaging to try to understand the footprint that people have taken permission for and now what they're trying to do uh We've also integrated our igr data which is the registration data

so the moment a property is registered automatically Sr when gets generated and the demand starts from the very first day from when the property has been registered that has also helped us keep a track of the transfer of properties and all these properties automatically coming to a property record uh we are also once the building permission management system gives a particular permission gives an occupancy certificate to a particular building the sr1 or what is called as a demand assessment also again automatically gets generated into our system so that we don't have to do this reconcilation

of what buildings have been given OC and where the property tax system needs to start but this is the integration that I think all cities are trying to achieve uh I think soon we should be able to achieve that uh integration to leverage the real benefits that can ACR from uh Dron survey property tax of course is just one of them and there are immense possibilities remaining thank you so much thank you SRI Shaker for acquainting us with P hward groundbreaking use of uh drone technology and advanced G systems for property tax assessment I think

it's a remarkable yeah you would like to sir we are honored to have you sir just uh so ladies and gentlem Mr shriwas kikala secretary Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is with us sir is an is Officer of 1989 batch of guat CER with over three decades of experience in the Indian bureaucracy he held various prominent position in state government as well as Government of India including director of labasa masuri we are honored to have you here with us sir thank you so much thank you sir uh I would like now like to invite

Dr Vin takur special director General at basar aara National Institute of Space applications and geoinformation matics to present on the application of geospatial Technologies in PM GTI Shakti sir the floor is yours you have 10 minutes time yeah thank you so yeah uh can we have the next weekend probably this works yeah so uh uh thank you so much uh uh for this opportunity uh I will be highlighting how PM GTI shaki is uh helping various Ministries and the state governments in ensuring that we have integrated and holistic planning uh so definitely it is uh

to ensure that we have a multimodal connectivity we have a enhanced logistic efficiencies we can uh fill the critical gaps out there in infrastructure and ensure that there is a uh seamless movement of people services and goods around in the country and without any uh disruption uh going ahead uh it ensures that uh we have a uh six principles on which PM GTI shaki is working on right now uh uh the first one is uh the integrated development Allied infrastructure in case some utilities are to be laid from the main infrastructure uh it definitely sees

the that we have a better management of Natural Resources it ensures that we have since it is being integrated with cadastral maps uh which is being disted by the states it ensures that we have a expedited land acquisition system built in B with this and uh definitely the the clearances NOC is coming from various authorities so they are also part of this uh the outcomes are many uh one that uh the comprehensiveness since uh all the Ministries almost the states they are putting the data on a single platform ens showes that they can see each

other's data in each other each others uh activities ensuring the good visibility of for for of the data for all the stakeholders it ensures that they can prioritize the activities in the sense that if the airport is coming in 2025 and some national highway is coming in 2028 so both can coordinate together and then see to it that the development can happen together uh they can optimize their activities they can synchronize also as I was saying in terms of the airport and then analysis is uh is very very important now on data which probably was

missing earlier so we are ensuring that uh this database coming together and sure we have a realtime analysis of lot of data uh because of the dynamic processes because of the apis through which this entire interface has been integrated uh coming to the technology it is entirely open source uh and in house it is being done by bag basar Institute of Space applications so it is a combination of geospatial Technology it is a combination of mobile analytics uh somewhere we are also providing Erp Solutions uh for for as per the requirement of different Ministries uh

Ai and ml forms a very important part of this entire analysis in order to further fine-tune and refine the applications and services remote sensing and then uh the the satellite communication uh this is the entire database architecture how the things are arranged uh the infrastructure layers we have around 1,600 of them uh now overlaid on PM G shaki National master plan assets their Jo mapping uh natural resources socio economic data legal and environmental Frameworks are very very important even we have heard just now Mr Shaker talking of that the compliances the regulations the no's they

are also built into upcoming projects and then schemes and all they are validated uh as per the standards laid down by by bis or any other standards available uh ISO standards and ogc standards and then compatible with Survey of India framework which is being used right now and then validation because it is connected directly to API or WMS or wfs service with with with the databases of different department so uh so they validate the data and that is how we are providing metadata and UI Services also probably which is going to be open to everyone

uh shortly and based on that we we provide various mechanism and services which is G2G g2c or somewhere even to the businesses also ensuring that we have a better decision making uh system placed in place uh this is uh entirely multi- sector databases created 2D 3D 4D 4D is the time Dimension added to it so we can compare Vis Serv the databases of 1950 60 70 based on a flood or some other uh statistics needed around that we are also adding some more angles like for Ministry of Agriculture uh for particular plot when you have

to give the loans so the bank bank bank official he visits that and then based on the based on the yield and everything he decides to give the loan but we are provisioning the data of 10 years on that particular plot what was the yield whether there was cultivation or no cultivation so any Dimension depending on the requirement of any department is being given through this particular platform this is standardized authenticated through Ministry is updated and then provide the seamless avability of systems uh in any format uh all the all the regulation criteria built into

this uh so National highways uh national parks centuries ecos sensitive zones water bodies so these these all layers as a layers are available and then regulation around them are also built into the system so this is this is how it is arranged you can see all the Ministries together contributing 44 of them contributing their data uh through apis and and then you can see for different Ministries uh uh like all the Ministries communication Railways forest and everyone coming together and you can see the detailing uh of them attributes Railway stations uh you can also see

the number how many of them are mapped so something like canals are 60,000 canals are part of this so those numbers are also Vis around that state similarly for States also we have the layers from States the alignment uh is the major planning which is being done by Ministries on this so whether to plan a water supply or whether to plan any alignment this is a coastal Corridor which is planned from for districts in Gujarat so uh this includes that these tourist places are to be included and some of the places are to some of

the utilities some of the uh natural sources and all are to be excluded like these are the things to be excluded so our engine will run and then give you the possible alignment you can see uh you can go on putting various uh data on this so this is the data of District head quarters talukas then go on putting uh different layers and then based on all this layer uh include inclusion and exclusion criterias it is going to provide you alignment so the alignment earlier was this was alignment earlier decided by Road and building department

of Gujarat but then this is what we have suggested them so these type of intervention and all we could reduce lot of hardles we could reduce even the length of this particular alignment through this uh similarly we are working very closely with yeah yeah we are working very closely with chandigar uh uh Administration so this ladar sa was carried out by them and then all the utilities their mapping you can see the property where green is there it is property tax is paid where it is red it is not paid and then blue where it

is paid partially so entire alignment around them has been done even for Solid Waste Management where to have a solid man management site so these parameter they can be defined on the system and then how much it has to be far from River or any other utility and accordingly it will give you the list where all possible sites are there and then it will also show on the map that these are the possible site for solid base management and similarly for Navada in Gujarat the entire GIS Mis editing tools charts reports analysis is the part

of this W boundaries uh taxation around them so they are also the water supply piping the entire network which was being referred by earlier speakers so the this is also solid waste uh containers their grian system is also being handled to this so all these utilities all this is being done uh wherever we are working with Municipal uh bodies in different states uh so this is the details plot-wise number and each and every utility priy taxes uh we are also working very closely with the defense uh Ministry the chavani project is being coordinated and supported

by us technically so for them end to endend automation of their various processes similar to Municipal corporations water supply network and other networks within this AMU City also we are working closely now with Ministry of Urban Development this is another one where we have a tagging uh for for electric pole so you can decide that if some new connection requirement comes so where to take the connection from so those can be built uh those have been built as part of this so this is Jone wise land planning and all this can be so all these

layers you can see on the left hand side they are marked and depending on the requirements you can enable them and see and then take the decision on this uh this is the report Generations nooc requirements natural uh gas line network uh another district and this is rira also we are working with with many many cities for Raa what are the registered unregistered project what is the progress of them so this is how that entire planning has been done uh this is another project which we are doing with the ministry of Telecom the covered and

uncovered area and then this is a app call before you dig you can stand anywhere on the road and then this app through this app it will tell you what is the underground utility going in and then who is to be contacted so standing there you can call that person that I want to dig this so this is a good utility probably can be used by various Municipal corporations so all these modules and tools are part of this go noo area 3D Terren for entire country so navigations and multiple tools have been provisioned they are

the reusable component uh dwel using open source Technologies which can be used as part of this entire framework which is being used by different thank you so much thank you Dr uh takur for your insightful presentation on the application of GIS in PM GTI Shakti with that I invite our next speaker uh s es Sinha additional survey or general Survey of India to present the efforts under Su scheme and amut program to leverage modern special data Technologies for land record management and infrastructure provisioning sir you have 10 minutes time to uh do your uh make

your presentation good afternoon chairman sir speakers on the Das and distinguished delegates in the hall it's a privilege for me to present are my experience of Survey of India uh in the various projects of national importance we know that Survey of India has undertaken several projects which have made the life of our which have directly impacted the citizens of the country I'll name a few of them it has been directly involved in all the river valley projects and of late some of of the important projects in urban management I would say the National Urban Information

System project it was involved and currently the national hydrology project and the namami ganga projects which is undertaking especially I would like to talk about the bakra nangal project which took place in 1950 why I want to use it because uh this project which lasted for around 12 years and during the command area survey it was the rectangul was done and the pillars were established and these pillars were later reused for the modernization of the cadastral survey in that area so I draw a straight parallel with it to what we are envisaging in the Naka

program the CRS systems that we have established in the suit that will be utilized as the framework for carrying out the survey in the other parts of the country and if I compare it with the other projects why is it that the suit project is it this one okay why is it that the suit project has drawn the recognition and acknowledgement of so wide so wide recognition and acknowledgement because and even The Honorable prime minister he mentioned this project in the UN General Assembly perhaps the main reason is that it has directly impacted the life

of around 70% of the population living in rural areas and it is in fact one of the projects which has defied the geospatial Divide because normally what you see is that when a technology is adopted the first benefit goes to the urban area but this is the case in which the benefit has first gone to the rural area and now we are talking of bringing the benefits in the urban area it has a suit was actually a project with a purpose it was not only creation of accurate land records but these land records where actually

we wanted to enable the citizens of the country with the property cards and to give them the ownership rights and as we all know that this area the abadi area of our country was never surveyed and it was never in the formal land Administration and the revenue system and did not have a map of its own so wherever there is the having a good map and reliable map is a prerequisite to development of any area so in absence of that it is no surprise that the Villages of our country they lack certain basic amenities so

now the data that has been generated in the Su project that is being used to support the gr punchayet development plan and this is the complete workflow of the project implementation workflow of the samitra project what I would like to emphasize is that there was total participation of the villagers themselves in the IEC stage that is information education and communication and in the uh also during the objection process and the dispute resolution process there was a collaboration of multiple agencies and different levels of the government you talk about Ministry of panchayati Raj Survey of India

as a national mapping agency the state government and Nic and for that matter I would say the entire government because this project itself triggered some of the major policy changes in the government the Drone rules that were brought about in 2021 where largely most of the feedback that were being faced by The Operators of the drones and the surveyors they were they the Drone rules actually simplified the entire process and in the process even the national uh geospatial guidelines and the NGP 2022 came into the place and that also further simplified the entire operation so

if I look at the scale at which this project was undertaken uh more than 3 lakh Villages have been completed and there were times in which every minute an S SOI drone would take off and all these are recorded by the because all the drones which are taking off are the complete log is there and from there the entire Global Community were actually surprised at the scale at which the drones were actually operating for this project and not only the challenges in the field were there yesterday we heard about how the data were actually transported

in the hard drive but there was uh huge chunk of data that was also processed online and on the cloud I think uh this was I'll just like to talk about certain the challenges that were there to give a true perspective of what were the challenges there and what exactly uh the outcomes of that project which we can take forward in this first of all as I have already said there was challenges of the collaboration and then even the selection of the technology that itself was a challenge because 6 lakh ,000 Villages were supposed to

be covered initially and there were great skep people were skeptic whether uh drones will be will be able to carry out activities at this stage but But ultimately after a considered deliberation within the organization considering that the areas that were to be mapped were discrete small areas of3 or4 square kilm and it would give us the flexibility in the operation and it would enable the participation of The Villages ultimately this was uh the Drone was selected as the technology of the choice and this was Vindicated because by this technology we were able to deliver services

to the citizens of the country and then comes the ingestion of the technology because the technology was always there but it it can happen I may have the willow of the greatest Cricket I may I may have the bat that suchin tenda uses but it doesn't matter if I'm not able to apply it to actually score the runs so it's the same thing the technology is there but how you adapt it into the processes and at the time these drone technology was ingested there was no trained surveyor in Survey of India and the capacity of

the industry was also not there but at this point with a limited training from the supplier of the Drone we were able to inest the entire thing into our processes and just I would like to just mention During the period suit was taking place that was the time in which covid had struck the entire globe and while this the epidemic was growing and this is was the time in which SW was actually taking place so you have two more minutes okay and but what I see is that there are several outcomes very positive outcomes which

we can take forward in our next in in our future projects first of all the Technologies of drones the CRS and the joid they have they were actually uh fully ingested into the work flows and this and this will actually hold us a good stad in the Naka program that we are going to have today nobody is actually questioning the capability of the industry Private Industry of India in actually carrying out the work through the Drone but the same time if I look at the if I look at the other deliverables the capacity of Survey

of India increased the capacity of the private players increased and the capacity of the states increased many of the states They carried out the large scale mapping projects on their own with the technical support of Survey of India as and this is what is envisaged in the policy as well then were technology development the drones that we started earlier during the from the feedback that we received from the field many of them blasted in the air so there were technology improvements which were there and today there are many indigenous drone manufacturers in our country next

if I come amut AMU is basically it will be the same the only thing the importance of the digital elevation model will be very high because it also aims at making the city's water secure and provide tab connection to all it aims at providing the same data layer earlier there used to be a separate map for the master plan and separate for the zonal plan and for separate for the local area plan so with the help of the Drone mapping what will happen is that the same data will be used for all the three plans

now I straight away come to the in the last slide that was will be upon the Naka what are the learnings that we have and how we take it forward we can call it the urban swamit so here in in Naka what we are trying is that we are trying the stereo digit feature extraction and then obl cameras and lar will be tested and explode for use so there was a uh why exactly because it is felt that using the studo feature extraction cameras the FES of the buildings the roof hangings and the permanent reference

markers and the permanent structure boundary because most of the urban areas will be with the boundary so and with the help of the distinct Ro edges that we'll get so the field work we expect to be drastically reduced and this is a thing that we learn because this is a POC we'll see what exactly what is what we are anticipating how it actually translates into the practice and based on this I think the further course of action in Naka will be planned and here once again the digital elevation model that will be processed very rigorously

and uh apart from the oi oror rectified imagy and them here what we'll be getting and the mesh model here what we'll be getting will be the 3D Vector models and these 3D Vector models can be sliced horizontally and vertically and all the concepts that we are talking about in the taxation system and with the help of the 3D addressing and the 3D helping we are very very hopeful that we'll be able to support it with an adequate GIS data and the if I talk about the ground work and the ground survey that is one

another area that we need to improve upon from the swamit because the challenges in the photometric survey using the drones was that especially in the invisible where the boundary is invisible how do you handle that and at least it can be handled only in the ground it is not that on the ground the surveyor will see it but the surveyor can at least ask and then this process has to be systematic in the sense that at least a minimum because in many countries what they do is they have to put a permanent boundary Mar but

here at least a temporary boundary marker needs to be put there and in the in the presence of the concerned stakeholders and then the coordinates are taken so why this decision whether to put a temporary boundary marker or a permanent boundary marker or use the theoretical coordinates because now with the CRS in place the very purpose of actually establishing the boundary is it can be considered the the entire service system if we are able to reestablish it if required with a CRS system it is definitely possible it becomes easy to reestablish the B so in

that way we can do away with a permanent boundary marker in the uh areas where it is invisible but this will be a call to be taken during the course of the prodject so I thank all of you for the patient thank thank you s Shin Sinha for this insightful presentation on the implementation of drone based surveys and advanced GIS mapping Technologies under the suit and umut initiatives uh I think it was a very insightful presentation sorry to uh keep bothering you with the time uh restrictions uh I am I now invite SRI Satya moan

deputy director National Institute of Defense Estate Management to present the Innovative approach to change detection using Ai and machine learning for defense Land Management sir you have 10 minutes thank you to make your presentation yeah so good afternoon everybody I'm Satya Mo from the director general of Defense States Ministry of Defense at the outset I'd like to thank the department of land resources for having organized this insightful and uh enriching conference it has been truly a wonderful experience witnessing all these speakers uh in these two days so I'll be uh uh making a presentation in

two parts one would be I'll be covering the Land Management journey in the ministry of defense and the second would be I'll be focusing more on the change monitoring tool that we have developed at the ministry of defense for land monitoring so uh to just to give you a brief idea uh Minister of Defense holds the largest amount of government land in the in the government of India we hold around 18 lakh Acres of Defense land uh which is around in around 6,000 pockets it's it varies from smallest to the largest pocket of being thousands

of Acres uh uh just to pinpoint this 18 lakh Acres of Defense land is under the occupation of different services within the ministry of Defense so we have Indian army Indian Air Force Navy Coast Guard so there are 20 almost 20 organizations within the mot which are occupying the these lands so it becomes a more complex and an uphill task to manage all these land all these land that we have most of them are of the 19th century vintage SO the land records are really old uh so this is the journey that we have traced

so far uh in the Land Management the first and second parts are the ones which involves digitization of the records the Old Register that we had of the 19th century and then the distraction of the maps these two things we took uh undertook I six five six years back and we are we are we have done with it the third and the natural uh natural Step Ahead after thetion was the survey of Defense land so we started with the ETS and then we switched on onto the dgps survey uh when we surveyed the CRS system

of the Survey of India was just upcoming so now we have again started the survey in the phase three using the C of the Survey of India to make it more accurate so after the survey we derived the shave files of all the defense land so uh again a natural step was to uh uh make a centralized G GIS portal where in all the defense land Pockets can be mapped it would be a good tool for decision making at the headquarters level so we have uh created a centralized GIS portal named dmap it stands for

defense States mapping I'll be showing it in the next slide then the fifth step that we we did was the Drone imagery survey uh once we had this GIS portal we thought of going one step ahead so we started the Drone imagery survey of the defense land inside the contonment area uh so we uh did did this survey in 2022 and after the survey we have used this thone data in so in various aspects one of them is property taxation we do have uh government of State Properties within the contonment area and we do Levy

service charges and the taxes from them so we have used this drone imagery the gis area that came as a result of this drone imagery in the taxation purpose also and then the uh Next Step was the use of machine learning and AI in the Land Management so uh this thing I'll be covering in detail in the next slides this just so this is how our centralized GS portal looks like it uh it it has all the layers it might not be visible on the screen but it has all the layers of encroachment vacant land

land is under the management of in army or the Air Force or the Navy so so we keep this tool handy in our in the headquarters uh we we keep on referring to to this J portal in all the decision- making Rel to Land Management so when when we zoom in to this portal this is how a shape we can zoom in and we can see the shape it has all the attributes of uh where the defense land is located under whose management it is uh when we when when we click on the uh view

extract the the last column it will this JS portal is linked to the digital textual record so this is an ex ract from the what we call as general land register it will automatically fetch us this record so uh now I'll be switching on to the next part of the presentation this is regarding the gis tools that we have been using uh in this we were almost one of the first Department in the government of India to use the gis tools and the Machine learning tools for the Land Management so uh we are using change

change monitoring tool which I'll be covering then we also use land use land use tools which gives us a fair amount of idea of which land is lying vacant where where it is built up where it is vegetation and water body and so on uh then we have the 3D tool which we use for urban planning purpose purposes in the contonment area then we also have a building footprint extraction tool which we again use it for the urban planning purposes so just to give give you an idea of why we thought of using this tool

of change monitoring is that uh encroachments is is a significant threat to the government lands across the country I'm sure it will be for for all the government lands and there is a huge Under reporting in the encroachment in in various cases because uh once who reports it gets penalized penalized for the increased reporting then uh once it is encroach it's very difficult to uh get the uh encroach the land encroachment free because of the uh various steps involved including the litigation the pp act cases and all so it's always better to monitor it and

to prevent the encroachment from happening and from in which the our G tool plays an important role so this is the approach that we have adopted in the change of change monitoring tool we took uh high resolution satellite imageries we took open source imageries also and cide 3 from the national remote sensing Center and uh then we first of all we uh searched upon the open source models which were which which were available online but uh none of them were able to give us the fair amount of accuracy that we wanted the idea that we

wanted so our aim was just to monitor any un unauthorized construction be it in terms of construction some shed some concrete activity happening on the defense land and to measure it and to keep a eye sort of oversight on the field offices so uh first we tried the open source tool tool then then we thought we'll have to make our own so we partnered with the Baba atmic Research Center who who is our technical partner in this and then we started uh training the tool I'll be showing the training part also so first we created

the to On the Open Source data that was available online on our own sets of data so that to uh increase the accuracy and then the last part was of of course the ground truthing of that this is how the model looks like we have to input two Satellite imageries of different time series it gives us the change output uh uh the training part we have train the tool on approximately 16,000 Square km of data and I won't say it has is it has become perfect but yeah it is giving uh some sense of what

we wanted the tool to be and uh we'll we'll be we'll keep on training more so as to increase the accuracy of the tool it's a format error so there were issues uh when we started the tool one was the moving objects then the tree cover and so many issues I'll be covering only two here so earlier the tool was taking the moving objects like the cars the trains and the flights also as a as a change but we wanted only the construction part to be shown at a change so example this this is Amad

contonment uh of 17 and this is 21 so you can see the flights have moved so uh and uh now I I'll show the tool output so this is the output of the tool it is not showing U any change in the moving objects as a change it's only showing a small part of the construction which has come up top right as a change so so this we have been able to achieve then uh uh other example I'll show is just regarding the tree cover again uh we we didn't want in our tool to show

the tree cover or the vegetation change the change we were focusing more on the construction or the construction activities that are change so uh again this is an example of amabat contonment so uh you can see in the second image the in these two images there is a lot of vegetation and tree cover change but we wanted this tool only to focus on the construction chain so it has been able to do that till now so this tool we have been using for almost all the defense land inside the contonment we and we are monitoring

it every 6 months um uh this is to say this tool is not perfect yeah there are cases of false predictions uh there are cases of Miss uh missed predictions also often when the building comes under under a tree or something but yeah we are working on it it will take time to stabilize but yeah we have we started using this for all the defense that inside the contonment uh so we have also partnered with national remote sensing Center who have agreed to give us data of our our area of interest every 6 months from

their satellite uh which we have we have we have started getting once we get once we get this data we are we are then using it to monitor uh the uh defense land every 6 months this tool I'd like to argue can be used for all the government lands currently we are using it only for the defense land for all the government lands be it government of India government of state to uh secure that preis resource that government land has thank you thank you sir I think you are the only speaker till now who has

kept to the timing uh thank you so much for this enlightening presentation on the advanced use of AI and ml uh techniques for monitoring uh and managing defense land uh I now invite strep madus Sudan RI director survey and settlements Tamil Nadu to present the state's remarkable achievements in computerization and Geor referencing of Urban Land records sir you have 10 minutes good afternoon uh everyone uh this uh Urban Land record uh system now we have seen the presentations from the various uh States uh notably uh City survey project of Maharashtra and bbmp experience and uh

in resurvey ap's experience and this is the fourth presentation typically on the cestal uh survey records in urban areas uh Tamil Nadu has a long tradition of surveying its towns but uh the survey is done on the landed property alone not on the vertical development as such though our land records format uh holds uh mechanism for uh can just so uh it has uh the design of the format everything is there in the initially when the town survey or the urban survey was started it was exactly synchronous the town survey number and the municipal door

number both were synchronous and it all it's uh started and the assessment by the revenue department is mentioned in one column and the assessment by the municipal body was mentioned in the other column so which was exactly in a synchronous a single uh uh table column when the record was manual and it got maintained for up to a certain period and after that with the rapid urbanization it lost track only the revenue got separated and the Urban Land records uh meant to be known as only the property tax transaction purposes and municipalities started maintaining independent

property tax database and the revenue department still maintains the ownership data of the land on which those properties are standing so it started uh in 19 1891 but subsequently continued till today under this uh system uh basically when we start the town uh this was the old town surveyed map of Madras uh when the town survey was taken up the town was divided or it is divided into the three parts the outer parts which were not vertically developed are mostly consist of the Open Fields that is called as open block and the transitionary block from

the CBD to the outer areas in the middle portions is divided as the medium block and the core area is kept as the uh closed block and accordingly it is uh surveyed and uh so far all the uh municipalities uh in Tam except the recently upgraded one in the last 3 years remaining all the municipalities we have the town survey records the different accuracy levels are prescribed for it compared to the rural survey and the ab the areas survey and this is how our land record manually looks on the left side is the textual record

which describes the ownership extent Etc and the right side is the cadastral record here the cadastral record is uh prepared with respect to the road network of the Town unlike the rural areas where the guest lines can be uh seen through because of the Open Fields here that is not possible that's why the road uh network is taken as a reference and from both sides the lines are formed to the uh survey then all the textual records are digitized and made online this uh digitized digitally signed copies of the uh tslr we call it Town

survey land record it is made available and a corresponding Urban black map is also available to the land owners uh to be downloaded from online and this is the digitized uh land record on left side is the textual record and right side is the block map it is uh containing up to the individual uh subdivision of the land ownership even if it is a small plot of 400 square ft also it is recorded on the Block map and uh initially it was surveyed using the uh chain and all now we switched over to the ETS

and dgps uh system in the but 100% uh ground survey we are following these are some steps in town surveying and mutation of the town surve records is being done uh online in a completely end to end manner the moment the uh a property is registered in the sub register office the documents come here to the revenue and then we do the online mutation this is the uh status of online uh mutation uh in Urban Land records these are the towns which we surveyed using the dgps and ETS currently we are doing in Valour City

Corporation and this is the outcome of a dgps surveyed uh town it's adjoining Chennai City it's part of taram Corporation now and we have uh total uh Geor referencing of the 69 towns done out of 186 uh we are going to Geor reference all these uh Maps uh and so far whatever I described is the revenue side handling of the land records this is uh under the custody of the tar and maintained by one or two surveyors depending on the size of the town and the other parallel parties with the municipalities or the municipal corporations

for the property taxation purpose this is one use case from our greater chenai corporation uh they have used the gis uh layers like other uh cities here which described rur or pimd in chin same methodology is going on everywhere either externally AED project or the city on its own has initiated uh the main purposes for them are to to detect either under assessed Properties or unassessed properties and then go for the uh realistic assessment of the uh taxation now the idea is how we integrate both of them uh instead of having two departments maintaining the

two different land records to integrate both of them is the next uh question we are contemplating this is the Milestone of the project as since 2019 it has been done now 2024 the the procedure and steps are exactly similar take a drone image then do a ground survey prepare the base maps and door too uh survey to reconfirm the ownership uh Etc and capture all the features beat Road Network beat uh SE line and the uh uh electric lighting uh Street Lighting systems Etc everything is captured and ultimately what is the impact of it uh

outcome of it uh is uh this one so per anom around 140 crores this is little older data July data as of October they could increase the revenue by 140 crores uh per year uh for the city of Chennai can you place uh play the video application for both revenue and Eng generator Chennai Corporation GCC has created a web and mobile supported GIS application for both revenue and Engineering departments base Maps capturing buildings roads utilities assets Etc spread across 426 Square kilm have been created the background layer of the base Maps can be changed using

imagery and the map is equipped with various tools for linear as well as area measurements with facility to change units the latitude and longitude details of all properties can also be obtained with a single click of a button officials can view the characteristics and details about a building including property tax and other tax information also more than 60 utilities and services provided by GCC are mapped recently a new feature has been enabled to add new properties and modify existing property details based on Jo location through a mobile app these details shall automatically reflect on the

GCC database can just go back I think one slide will be there the last slide see the ultimate uh next uh step which is envisaged by the DLR or every state is ening is that how do we marry both and have a single database because the property tax database of the urban local bodies doesn't have the cestal data the cestal record of the survey or Revenue departments uh doesn't have the property tax data and also the utilities data like electricity or the water supply lines Etc so now the idea is to do an integrated survey

and have a single database uh which is linked to the uh Geor referenced cadastral uh map the aim is to that so we also you know have sent the list of cities before that uh you know just uh now we thought okay we will just integrate existing anyhow we have the proper columns in the database already created so we want to map these two data sets and create a Model Town uh record and show it to D that we can actually Carry On from the existing work itself rather than again uh newly uh doing it

because whatever this GIS map the Drone image map has been taken here we have exactly replica of another cestal record which has a this thing both are not linked so only this aspect we want to do this Geo reference uh uh thing once it is done we will be having a near perfect uh data of the geolink Geo referenced cadastral data linked with the property transactions and property taxation uh data with the Metro water and electricity uh database also incorporated into it it will have a single uh database which can be very uh useful for

the uh property owners in the cities and then it not apply to multiple departments to get their details enrolled or you know get uh changed it and as part of a small initiative already the registered properties uh have been started triggering to the property tax database so that as soon as the registration happens now it is coming only to the Revenue data to change in the Urban Land records we have initiated to change the property tax database also immediately after the uh registration is uh done so this is what uh Tamil nadu's experience of maintaining

uh Urban Land records for all the municipalities we have this cadastral map data as well as the textual data and both of them have been digitized and digitally signed and people in urban areas in Tamil Nadu know that they should obtain this also from the revenue department in addition to the registered uh uh data this is our current status thank you for the opportunity thank you s uh RI for this insightful presentation on Tamil nadu's efforts in digitizing and modernizing Urban Land records and linking cadastral database with property tax um with this I think we

we sorry okay yeah okay okay okay okay okay so uh now I invite our secretary uh Mr s Nas yeah so would you like to please please uh thank you now I'm happy standing here I don't like to hide behind a lecturn uh uh it's I'm very happy to be here today and thank you Dei my co-chairperson eminent panel here my senior colleague and friend patchmate Mr Anil Kumar manojo just stepped out senior members of the audience practitioners from the urban and revenue departments I think all of you have uh a lot of experience lot

of insight and uh I think today and yesterday the two-day conference really has come at a very timely uh moment as I was reflecting and hearing our colleagues speak it came as no surprise to me that uh the states that were represented in the conversation on this panel are Tamil Nadu Maharashtra examples from Gujarat chattis Gad I haven't had the opportunity of hearing but primarily what I heard and therefore when I was hearing all of this even some of the examples that you gave from the Estates defense Estates again came from the canament of amabat

and I was reflecting on my own uh uh experience and journey having worked uh in the revenue department of Gujarat government leading the DMP of 2016 and the experience there I was uh my I wanted to share a few Thoughts with you as we stand today in 2024 we are building on work that started literally on the 1st of November 1800 in the district of colel Thomas Monro Madras presidency Monro started the entire process of land record management which eventually this India was the sandbox went to England where they implemented it British was smart they

would do all the sandboxes sandboxing in India so so Monro did it here and thereafter the same medras practice so we were talking at that point in time about three presidencies so M Madras presidency model was one the Bombay presidency model is the second the Kolkata presidency model of course is the third the Punjab model Etc is something else I speak with a fair amount of experience of the Bombay practice since I belong to the Gujarat CA and by and large it reflects the Madras principles so what our colleague friend M Madan explained is very

interesting and I think it's very important as we speak on in this forum of how to build and consolidate the foundational uh record and somewhere it came up that the base record is the cadastral record the title record is the cadastral record I think Madu said it and somebody else also said it what also happens in the The Madras presidency and the Bombay presidency model is while the revenue department maintains the rural cadastral record whenever villages started urbanizing and here we get into something called the city survey process Madras it is the town planning process

the the norm at that point in time even now is a village that crosses a 5,000 population immediately is taken up for City surve so therefore the the measurement of the urban property of the cities of the villages as they expand and as they grow used to be a regular practice in these areas well the practice in certain other parts of the country is different now speaking and and serving as the secretary Urban Development government of India and dealing with some of the Delhi issues I notice Delhi has Villages that are called Lora Villages a

Lora Village is a village that is bounded by a red line which means there is no survey internally so there is a single Kasra number or a single survey number single FP number or whatever you might call it and everybody living inside that gets collated into that so it becomes a bit of a problem we we are dealing with it separately but coming to the uh the the the pattern that has been very very well established and evolved which very correctly and very I think lucidly was explained by Madu is this that whenever the revenue

department M cadastral record of the agricultural land shifts into non-agriculture it shifts both in the nature of the ownership and the manner in which it is maintained and eventually gets connected at that very point with the municipal record for the purposes of property tax this happens even today what Gujarat did further is we went ahead and implemented the town planning mode which is now quite well known more effectively than other parts of the country Although our town planning act came out of the Bombay presidency and in a way reflected the Town and Country planning Act

of The Madras presidency the town planning scheme what it does is this you must look at the way it the nature of land and the context of land changes there is a plot of let us say one acre of agricultural land becomes urbanized becomes City survey land so city city survey numbers get assigned in in the in the place of a revenue survey number and the city survey when it starts getting implemented in a town planning process gets trans transm moried into something called a final plot Number of a town planning scheme now that is

the base layer on which the verticality that you spoke about comes in so the challenges of maintaining the record in the verticality is is in the verticality not really in the base so I think these are principles sound principles that are established principles that we should build on in fact I was just talking to our colleague uh uh Mr takur Vin takur G we have worked for long years and I was reflecting that his senior colleague Dr TP Singh and I we worked together in 2006 in Gujarat where he and I of course we use

the base layer the cadastral layer that came out of drrm to make it the base layer of the GTI Shakti so GTI Shakti cannot happen without a strong cadastral base layer and only thereafter by putting all these layers then we can see the power of GTI Shakti evolve in fact I was happy to see that some of the images he showed of how a solid waste management site a landfill site can be discovered was done in 2006 in 3 months for the first time in the world I believe in 3 months the entire state of

Gujarat was covered using this technology but again speaking from the perspective of property tax so the first story is how do you maintain the tax the record what does that record transmute into it obviously transmutes into how much money how much revenue should be collected in the in the rural area we had land Revenue that was getting collected urban areas of course it was some form of a property tax we used to maintain in the village form form number four form number three we would know how many houses were being built and so on now

the Big Challenge and why this conference is timely is this and speaking as Urban secretary the challenge I see is the economic footprint area of an urban area of an and the responsibility of the urban Corporation or the urban entity there is a huge skewed mismatch in fact just to prove a point I asked him how friend sha I said what is your budget he said my budget is 8,000 crores then I asked him what is the economic output of your area said I don't know now this is the real challenge this is the biggest

challenge that this conference is seeks to achieve and address because in an economic area and our urban area in the country represents only 2 to 3% in fact in the last 15 years the E the the land mass that is put to Urban use has moved from 2 to around 2.6% that is all but most of the production happens here but the revenue that should also come to enable investments into urban areas does not do not does not come the reason it does not come is because of this mismatching and skewing that has happened so

for instance take any Town any town I am quite confident that the budget of that town will not represent even half a per of the GDP it is generating take the town of take even Bombay I think Bombay's uh mumbai's budget must be in the order of around 30,000 CR 60,000 crores now take the value of 10 buildings in Mumbai just it's it is amazing to see the mismatch and the and the kind of misalignment M that has happened and therefore the the context of today's I think discussion and deliberation of how do we capture

value so that we invest into our urban areas with the best of efforts neither the urban areas nor the governments of the state governments nor the government of India are able to invest because the real value that is within this area is getting reflected and the only way of reflecting is it is in the form of this property tax which again is is very marginal you are collecting 9900 crores I mean honestly 900 crores for p so therefore I feel we have to reconfigure what we do we have to really figure out how do you

capture value in order that we invest it well so that our urban areas our quality of life in the urban areas are not only well serviced but the future is well provided for so we have to so this process that has begun today I think is a process that leads in that direction going back again little bit of historical context till 1918 land Revenue was being collected by the central government and then divided till the monteu kemur reforms after that it was shifted over I think there is a a a strong need to now assess

what is the total amount of value that can be captured from the urban and urbanized areas which represent the economic growth areas because if we do not do that value capture then what we are also doing is enabling perhaps a wrong application of land as an asset because the people who are owning land have no vested interest in putting it to to to I think meaningful economic users they should be encouraged so therefore they become participants of a of an economic process that will generate value rather than become a rentier class so these are the

large challenges I think there's a lot to be discussed I'm very happy to be with all of you my best wishes for this conference thank you thank you sir for your enlightening remarks uh I would now like to pass on the mic to the MC thank you thank you everyone for such a valuable session so your words I believe started on open dialogue but uh we appreciate your presence and I would now request the moderator to please come forward and felicitate the speakers let us begin with uh P madus sadan ready Sir Mr satam moan

Mr SK Sinha Mr SK senha Dr Vin takur Mr Shaker Singh and Mr abinash Mishra thank you so much sir now may I request Shri assit Haler deputy secretary Department of land resources to come up on the stage and felicitate the moderator of the session [Applause] I also request him to felicitate secretary sir Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the chair of the session ladies and gentlemen with this we have concluded the five technical section of this today International Workshop we thank you all for being with us now we uh I request you all

to please remain seated we are about to start the concluding session ceremony I request all of you to have a grow photograph sir we will begin with the closing ceremony now thank you so much thank you very much indeed ladies and gentlemen we thank all our eminent speakers for the wonderful sessions that we had since yesterday and we would now request everybody to kindly remain seated we are straight away moving into the validatory session of this two-day workshop this International Workshop The Honorable minister is already here would be joining us any moment now just give

us a minute while we set up the stage for the validatory session requesting everyone to kindly remain seated please and once again requesting for all mobile phones to kindly be kept onto silent mode for for e ladies and gentlemen we are awaiting the arrival of The Honorable minister to go ahead with the proceedings of the validatory session meanwhile requesting everyone to kindly remain seated once again requesting for mobile phones to be kept onto silent mod The Honorable minister is already here at the venue with us we'll be joining us any moment now EX Sy this

Tel so ladies and gentlemen As We Gather here today for the closing ceremony I'm sure we all had a very wonderful experience over this 1 and a half day with all the enriching sessions that we had with all our eminent speakers sharing with with us those insightful addresses and presentations and we would take a moment espcially to thank all our International eminent speakers who have traveled from across the globe to be here with us today thank you very much indeed we also thank our representatives from the World Bank for sharing or extending their support to

us in organizing this wonderful International Conference and certainly ladies and gentlemen a feedback from each one of you would be wonderful to have and Ladies and Gentlemen let's put our hands together to welcome our honorable Chief guest Dr Chan shakar Pani G The Honorable minister of State for Rural Development and Communications government of India a very warm welcome to you sir also welcoming on stage SRI Mano Joi G secretary Department of land resources Shri R Anand G additional secretary Department of land resources and Shri Kunal satari G joint secretary Department of land resources namaskar and

good afternoon honorable Chief guest Dr chandrakar Pani G honorable minister of State for Rural Development and Communications government of India eminent dignitaries on the days our special invitees senior officials distinguished participants eminent speakers respected members of the press and media ladies and gentlemen on behalf of the Department of land resources Ministry of rural development government of India I have the privilege in welcoming you all to the validatory session of the international workshop on Modern Technologies in survey resurvey for Urban Land Resources and we are deeply honored to have with us today The Honorable minister of

State for Rural Development and Communications Dr Chandra Shaker Pani G The Honorable minister is a Visionary leader dedicated to the holistic development of India's rural sector and the advancement of communications technology across the country Dr panani plays a crucial role in formulating in policies and strategies that address the challenges faced by the rural India and I would now like to request Shri Mano josi G secretary Department of land resources to kindly do the honors of welcoming honorable minister with a Shaw and a green plant once again let's put our hands together to welcome the honorable

minister [Applause] a very warm welcome to you [Applause] sir thank you very much indeed sir for doing the honors and now to begin the proceedings of the validatory session may I invite Mr Kunal Saar G joint secretary Department of land resources to kindly present the outcomes of the workshop of all the sessions and deliberations that we had over the the last one and a half day so let's put our hands together to welcome [Applause] sir honorable Minister Dr chandrakar Pani honorable minister of State for Rural Development and Communications government of India I welcome you to

this closing session sir and uh I know we had made a request and you had to travel back it has been very hectic for you you traveled from gur yesterday just to attend this uh Workshop we are grateful to you sir for the leadership and your interest in the subject of land records particularly in Urban Land records and record of Rights and cestal Maps so we welcome you in the closing session sir I also welcome my secretary man josi sir on the Das and additional secretary R Anan s on the Das um this is a

closing session so just a recap very 5 minutes recap about what we have gone through it is very difficult to crystallize what we have heard uh for one and a half days it has been extremely intense but just to apprise you sir the workshop was inaugurated by The Honorable Agriculture and FAL welfare and R minister online from bopal and he um gave a speech about the importance of Urban Land records and also appreciated the efforts of the department on launching the Urban Land cot program called Naka for 120 pilot cities this year thereafter there has

been just a brief of nine countries are present who presented before us so nine countries of Spain South Korea France Netherlands UK Australia USA Germany and Japan some of the delegates are on the left side they have made presentations about the best uh practices that are applicable in their own countries this was followed by uh I think equal distribution among all the stakeholders so I was just doing analysis about how many people spoke on various subjects so nine countries partic presented best practices followed by 12 states of India Kerala mad Pradesh Maharashtra Assam chattis Gad

Karnataka Maharashtra Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh all of them presented their case studies nine industry Partners without which we can't do any aerial survey any ground truthing nine industry Partners also made detailed presentations about uh their work their challenges their opportunities and what they can deliver on this matter of Urban Land records and on land records five institutions have also uh made presentations uh to name them Survey of India our lead technical partner who would be who would be very important for us to do uh Urban Land record we had presentation by our own GTI

Shakti BAC uh then the defense uh State Services we had presentation by kpur uh mad Pradesh uh State electronic Development Corporation we also have 30 uh exhibitions we the demand was for much more but we could accommodate in this Auditorium only 30 so 30 exhibitors so I think we have had almost this it was back back to back presenters had a difficult time and the chair and the moderator also managing the uh sessions but uh everybody wanted to share a lot of their stories and their successes and constraints which was a good deliberation so bringing

uh nine countries 12 States nine industry partners and five institutions onto one platform by a participation of almost 700 our participants 34 states have participated more than 200 Industry partners are participating more than 300 participant from the states and uh 200 almost 100 people from the central government so that's a brief recap I'm nobody to go into the merits of what we discovered in this Workshop uh um secretary will do it for us but uh it has been success in the way that people appreciated the program of Urban Land Accords uh everybody says it is

doable it is difficult job but we all all in the same boat traveling together to do Urban Land records for the country so that's the brief uh introduction about the workshop sir thank you so much J [Applause] hind thank you very much indeed sir for briefly and precisely sharing the key outcomes of this International workshop and Now ladies and gentlemen I have the honor to request SRI Manoj josi G secretary Department of land resources to kindly present the way forward for the modernization of the Urban Land records let's put our hands together to welcome [Applause]

sir honorable Minister for Rural Development and Communications my friends on the Das and uh all the representatives from States and uh companies and international organizations so this is the under yours and uh honorable SRI shivarra Singh Chan's uh leadership this is the first time we are undertaking uh Urban Land record survey in India we have done rural land records uh for ages and we have started using modern techn techology the drones and everything for rural land lards like including in Andhra Pradesh we have been doing drone flying in the cities without really some of them

using for property tax purposes but otherwise just keeping the image uh and not really using it never used it for uh Urban Land records we have used uh ETS dgps uh systems without not the aial photography in uh land record Urban Land record preparation in Maharashtra uh Maharashtra City surveys one few cities in last few years have been done using dgps Gujarat they are using it Tamil NAD they're using it a bit but large scale aial flying to create Urban Land records uh we have not done in India um so this is uh for some

time like uh we one fed that there is a need to do this but people are bit scared to do it it's too large an exercise you would have seen it in Andra Pradesh uh we have seen it in Bear and Assam and harana and Gujarat uh this is to do a survey in a large area it's a massive exercise the easiest part of which is uh getting a imagery and then the difficult part starts of going to the ground and uh verifying in it putting it together in a system getting people's objections because their

lands get reduced from uh say 400 square m to 380 square m and they feel very bad about it that their record says 400 square m but actually it is only 380 square m to satisfy them to for them to reconcile that there's nothing much could be done it's a it's a political administrative social process one has to go through and that's a that's a big challenge so under your leadership uh we have undertaken this challenge in the desire that uh something would succeed uh if we have decided that we'll do it in uh in

certain period of time we may lag by some years but we want to do it and it's it's a activity which doesn't cost so much but the benefits far outweigh uh the effort involved so let's put together the part of the country to do something which is important which we must do which we avoid because we are not sure how how long would it take how much effort would it take how much difficulty it would create but something uh we have embarked upon there are challenges uh of I think the biggest thing is the motivating

the state governments uh mobilizing Manpower putting a endtoend solution so that uh you don't do things manually and uh uh as soon as you get images from drones then further process goes online and with the tablets and uh uh including find people's objections the whole end to end process seamlessly we can do HR we can manage we can mobilize the state governments entire process hopefully if we are able to do we want to do it in one year time and uh the half the state governments at least we see are very enthusiastic remaining half we'll

have to push uh that's true for any government of India programs you find people who are pushing you people who are moving with you and some people you have to keep pushing so the same would apply in this program also and uh with technology partners with International organizations with the state governments and with your leadership I'm sure we would be able to do that so thank you [Applause] thank you very much indeed sir for kindly presenting the way forward and ladies and gentlemen we are now honored to hear from our guest of honor Dr Chandra

shakar Pani G honorable minister of State for Rural Development and Communications government of India let's put our hands together to welcome the honorable minister thank you Shri manohar josi G secretary land records Shri R Anand G additional secretary Land Resources Shri Kunal satar dig joint secretary Land Resources government of India officers of the World Bank distinguished panelists and guests from different parts of the world officers of the government of India and state governments Academia industry startups friends from press and media ladies and gentlemen Namaste it is a great honor to join you today at the

conclusion of this remarkable one and half a day workshop this event has brought together Global experts and leaders United in the mission to explore innovative solutions for Urban Land surveys your presence and contributions have made this event One of a Kind the secretary of the Department of the land resources government of India has informed me that this Workshop explored a range of Innovations including advances in survey and resurvey techniques geospatial tools drone and aircraft Technologies and GIS Integrated Solutions the collective insights shared here will act as the Bedrock for building a smarter more efficient Urban

and management system in India Land Management in India is as diverse as our heritage Rich complex and reflective of varied Regional policies and practices however with this diversity comes challenges Public Services become Tangled disputes emerge and outdated land records lead to inefficiencies Accurate land records are more than administrative tools they are the backbone of socioeconomic planning Public Public Service delivery and conflict resolution if you look at over the last decade India under the Visionary leadership of our prime minister SRI Narendra Modi G has made significant strides with initiatives such as the digital India land records

modernization program we have digitized records of Rights across over 6.25 lakh Villages launched the unique land parcel identification number also known as buad and created seamless integration between revenue and registration systems however as rural land records evolve Urban Land Management must also rise to meet the demands of Rapid urbanizations Cities are expanding vertically and horizontally and land Administration must keep Pace to ensure Equitable development we now stand at a pivotal moment in urban governance where technology meets opportunity modern tools like drones aircraft based surveys and satellite imagery offer unparalleled Precision these Technologies provide oror rectified

images Geor referenced Maps that are both accurate and true to the Earth's surface by deploying these tools we reduce human errors increase efficiency and collect consistent upto-date data even in the most challenging Urban environments with tall buildings dense vegetation and complex land usage patterns integrating these images into GIS platforms will turn data into actionable insights enabling urban planning real estate development infrastructure management and even disaster preparedness with unprecedented Precision moreover bye creating spatially enabled land records we can resolve long-standing issues such as overlapping ownership claims inconsistent land evaluations and Boundary disputes the time has come

to move Beyond traditional costly and timec consuming surveys and adopt these Advanced Technologies for a new era in urban governance I am pleased to learn that this Workshop featured impactful case studies and representatives from several countries across the globe Us South Korea Spain Germany India and other countries have shared experiences on overcoming the challenges of Urban Land Management this Workshop is not the end but the beginning of a transformative Journey the insights gained here will shape a national program to modernize Urban Land records we envision the creation of pilot projects across select cities combined with

capacity building initiatives for local bodies and state officials as we leave this Workshop Let Us carry with us a shared commitment to apply the knowledge Technologies and solutions discussed here together we will create a transparent efficient and Equitable system of Urban Land Management one that aligns with India's vision of smart cities inclusive growth and sustainable development as I conclude I want to emphasize that Urban Land Management is not just a technical exercise it is the foundation of economic growth Industrial Development and social harmony and I want to congratulate the entire department of land resources and

all the officials for organizing this oneof a kind movement and presenting the the modern India's capabilities to the rest of the world thank you J [Applause] hin thank you very much indeed honorable Minister sir for highlighting the significance of the rural development in the economic growth of any country and also how the rural development can be achieved by introducing modern Technologies and Now ladies and gentlemen as we come to the end of this wonderful International Workshop I would like to request Shri R Anand G additional secretary Department of land resources to kindly propose the vote

of thanks a warm good afternoon to all of you I would like to thank the honorable minister of State for Rural Development and Communications s Chandra Shar panig garu for sparing time and for being with us here today yesterday in in fact he was traveling and based on our request it was so kind of you sir to come here and be with us today thank you very much sir and in fact as you mandated today and as mandated by The Honorable Minister SRI shiv Singh chawani yesterday during the inauguration of this conference sir we commit

ourselves that we'll continuously work with the state governments and with all the urban local bodies to generate the land records for this 100 plus cities in the next one year and we'll take this movement forward thank you very much sir for being here with us I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to World bank and to all the international experts who have been here for the past one and a half days and for sharing their experiences of course I would definitely like to share my special thanks to all the senior officers of the

central government and the state government I'll take Liberty of mentioning in fact I would like to mention that chairman revenue board government of utar Pradesh it has been very nice of you sir to stay continuously in all the sessions so that shows the kind of input what came in all the sessions thank you very much sir and not only you all the officers were there continuously I thank everyone of you I also like to thank the industry in fact our Minister always says that we should also have the end on to whom we should serve

we should have them in mind sir we are associating the industry also for doing the survey so we are thankful to all of them we are thankful to the exhibitors we are thankful to the Academia and we are thankful to some of the students have also come and to all the central Ministries departments to everyone here and of course the media and the officials of DLR thank you all very much for this past 4 and a half days conference as we all commit ourselves to creating Urban Land records in the next one year thank you

very much sir once [Applause] again thank you sir and I would request for a group photograph sir may I request The Honorable Minister for a group photograph and Ladies and Gentlemen let's once again put our hands together to thank the honorable Minister and our dignitaries as I would now like to invite everyone to come kindly join us for lunch which is served on the first floor so with this ladies and gentlemen we officially close the proceedings of this International Workshop thanking each one of you for your participation in making this Workshop a huge success that

it was thank you once again have a wonderful day ahead safe journey home good afternoon and namaskar I'm I'm starving invited every