The state government, as part of its initiative to create unique land property identification numbers for properties, has completed drone-flying in 198 BBMP wards. Data verification and review of documents for more than 3.5 lakh properties spread across 109 wards are still in progress.
According to the revenue department, over 92,000 property owners have already been given their new IDs — under Urban Property Ownership Records (UPOR) cards.
Aside from Bengaluru, a similar exercise is being carried out in five other districts of the state — Ramanagara, Tumakuru, Belagavi, Hassan and Uttara Kannada.
According to the government, drone surveys are being conducted for all agricultural and urban lands as part of the land resurvey project. “Boundaries are identified using images captured through the drone survey and overlaid on satellite images available to create property rights and other documents,” the government said. Asked about the survey and progress in the remaining wards, BBMP chief commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, said: “When we start the survey, we’ll tell you.”
Citizen activist Nagesh Aras, however, pointed out: “A digitisation initiative was carried out six years ago but people are not aware of it. Vendors were supposed to get paid but that has not happened. Now, they are again talking about drone surveys and digitisation.”
As reported earlier, software is being developed under the Bhoomi project to scan owners’ full information and the government has initiated the process to purchase 317 scanners for each, taluk office, sub-divisional officers office and collectorate offices.