Drone survey for enabling land records stopped after covering 19.19% of villages in Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka

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A representational photograph  of a drone being utilized  for survey   of land. The SVAMITVA Scheme uses drones and peculiar   mapping tools to intelligibly  people    spot   boundaries.

A representational photograph of a drone being utilized for survey of land. The SVAMITVA Scheme uses drones and peculiar mapping tools to intelligibly people spot boundaries. | Photo Credit: T. Vijaya Kumar

The authorities of Karnataka has scrapped the Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology successful Village Areas (SVAMITVA) successful Dakshina Kannada territory aft covering conscionable 19.19% of the region.

On February 3, Union Minister of Panchayat Raj Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh told the Lok Sabha that of 422 villages successful Dakshina Kannada, drone survey was completed successful 81 villages (19.19%), and 2,605 spot cards were issued successful those 81 villages.

“...The State (Karnataka) Government has informed that the remaining villages successful Dakshina Kannada territory person not been taken up nether the SVAMITVA Survey owed to the crushed that this territory does not person the Gramathana, oregon compact habitation clusters. The habitations person a highly scattered colony pattern, which does not conscionable the request for SVAMITVA habitation level drone mapping and parcel delineation.”

The Ministry has witnessed dilatory advancement of drone flying, crushed truthing, and organisation of spot cards successful Karnataka, the Minister said.

The SVAMITVA is targeted to beryllium completed by March 2026, helium said successful effect to an unstarred question by Captain Brijesh Chowta, subordinate of Parliament, Dakshina Kannada.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the SVAMITVA connected April 24, 2020 connected the National Panchayat Raj Day. The SVAMITVA Scheme provides ineligible ownership of agrarian residential onshore utilizing drone-based surveys. The strategy helped radical successful villages get ineligible ownership papers for the houses and onshore they unrecorded on. It utilized drones and peculiar mapping tools to intelligibly people spot boundaries.

The strategy was launched arsenic galore colony homes and onshore successful India were ne'er decently recorded. Without ineligible documents, radical couldn’t beryllium ownership, oregon usage their spot to get slope loans, oregon authorities help. This deficiency of records slowed down the economical maturation of agrarian areas and led to predominant onshore disputes. To lick this, the SVAMITVA Scheme gave radical ineligible ownership papers, helping them unafraid their rights.

The SVAMITVA Scheme was implemented by the Survey of India (SoI) with the National Informatics Centre Services Inc. (NICSI) arsenic the exertion partner.

Published - February 03, 2026 04:56 p.m. IST

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