The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Union Ministry of Rural Development, will launch the second batch of Phase 2 of the National Geospatial Knowledge-Based Land Survey of Urban Habitations (NAKSHA) Capacity Building Programme on Monday. The week-long training will be held across four National Centres of Excellence to enhance the skills of Urban Local Body (ULB) and district-level officers in modern land survey techniques.
The programme will be virtually inaugurated by DoLR Secretary Manoj Joshi at 10:00 A.M. A total of 128 officers from 74 ULBs have been nominated for this round of training, which will take place at Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA) Pune, Administrative Training Institute (ATI) Mysuru, Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (MGSIPA) Chandigarh, and the Northeast Region Centre of Excellence (Guwahati).
This follows the successful completion of Phase 1 and the first batch of Phase 2, which together trained over 300 Master Trainers and ULB officers. The training will focus on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Electronic Total Station (ETS) based surveying, Web-Geographic Information System (GIS) applications, land parcel mapping, and the legal and administrative frameworks governing urban land records.
The NAKSHA programme is a technology-driven initiative aimed at modernising urban land records. Launched as a pilot in 157 ULBs across 27 States and 3 Union Territories, it is being implemented by DoLR in collaboration with the Survey of India, National Informatics Centre Services (NICSI), Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation (MPSeDC), and five Centres of Excellence.
