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Andhra Pradesh government launches Naksha to revolutionize urban planning and property taxation

Andhra Pradesh government launches Naksha to revolutionize urban planning and property taxation

Time of India17-05-2025
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Guntur: In a move to improve the planning of urban areas and remove personal discretion taxation of properties, the state govt has launched survey of properties under the National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey (
Naksha
).
The Centre, which is sponsoring Naksha programme, has picked 10 municipalities under pilot project following the state govt's request. While the aerial survey was completed in eight of the ten municipalities, aerial survey is going on in Eluru and Mangalagir-Tadepalli municipal corporations. "Naksha is going to bring revolutionary changes in the urban areas particularly with regard to planning of developmental works, granting of building plans, prevention of manual intervention in taxation of properties," said municipal administration and urban development minister Dr P Narayana.
Speaking at the digitalisaiton of land records programme, Narayana said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to fully develop the nation through Vikasit Bharat, while chief minister Chandrababu Naidu targeted to develop the state as Swarnandhra by 2047. He explained that the Naksha program will greatly contribute in providing transparent and efficient governance in urban areas. He said that the Centre has selected 10 municipalities for implementation of Naksha programme under pilot project.
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"We will survey and digitize about 9.5 lakh properties spread across 524 square kilometers in 10 municipalities. We wanted to complete the survey as per the timelines fixed by the Centre," said Narayana. He said that every property including residential, commercial and industrial outlets will be accurately mapped through Naksha.
He said that a re-survey of 6,000 government properties at the field level has also been completed in Kuppam, Ongole, and Anantapur municipalities. He said that they have deployed 156 rovers against the actual requirement of 166 rovers. He explained that they have trained about 643 verification teams needed for the field-level survey. "The Naksha program will enhance
urban planning
tools and tax imposition.
In fact, it will also help resolution of property disputes," said Narayana.
He said that they have directed the municipal commissioners and district collectors to coordinate with the Central teams for early completion of the property surveys. He said that the state govt would extend the programme in other municipal corporations and municipalities after studying the results of the pilot project.
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The pilot project
*The Union govt has selected 10 municipalities for survey of properties and land in Andhra Pradesh
*The project, implemented under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), is expected to enhance urban planning and governance.
*Kuppam, Ongole, Anantapur, Guntur, Nellore, Kurnool, Kakinada, Mangalagiri- Tadepalli, Eluru and Tirupati municipal corporations were selected under the project
*Centre will spend Rs 190 crore on Naksha and targets to complete the survey in one year
*Naksha aims to clear land title disputes by providing updated, digitised land records
*The survey will employ advanced LiDAR sensors, oblique imaging, and GIS technology for high-precision mapping, capturing both surface and elevated terrain features
*The department of Land Resources (DoLR), Survey of India (SOI), National Informatics Centre (NIC), and other key institutions are joining hands to provide technical support, geospatial services, data analysis, and satellite imaging
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