Kerala will complete digital resurvey in four years: Revenue Minister

Cabinet approves ₹807.98-crore project for extending resurvey to 1,550 villages

A ₹807.98-crore project for extending digital resurvey to 1,550 villages in the State, which received Cabinet nod on Tuesday, will be completed over four years in four phases, Revenue Minister K. Rajan said here on Wednesday. The project signals the State’s departure from the conventional methods of land surveying, and is aimed at unifying land-related documentation under the departments of revenue, survey, and registration. Administrative sanction has been given for the first phase which will cover 400 villages at a cost of ₹339.43 crore under the Rebuild Kerala development programme, the Minister said. The Department of Survey and Land Records will implement the project with technical support from the Regional Director (Kerala), Survey of India. For the digital resurvey, the department will primarily bank on Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) networks using Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) machines. Twenty-eight base stations will be set up in the State. The resurvey using conventional methods was launched in Kerala in 1966.