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The Ministry of Rural Development in India is launching the second phase of the NAKSHA Capacity Building Programme on June 2, 2025, across five National Centres of Excellence. This phase will provide hands-on training to 304 urban local body officers in modern geospatial technologies for urban property surveys. The initiative aims to improve land survey accuracy and accessibility in response to India's growing urban population.

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NAKSHA

The Ministry of Rural Development in India is launching the second phase of the NAKSHA Capacity Building Programme on June 2, 2025, across five National Centres of Excellence. This phase will provide hands-on training to 304 urban local body officers in modern geospatial technologies for urban property surveys. The initiative aims to improve land survey accuracy and accessibility in response to India's growing urban population.

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6/2/25, 8:28 AM Press Release:Press Information Bureau

Ministry of Rural Development

Second Phase of NAKSHA Capacity Building


Programme to be launched across five National
Centres of Excellence from June 2
Posted On: 01 JUN 2025 12:34PM by PIB Delhi

The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India,
is going to conduct the second phase of capacity-building under the NAKSHA (NAtional geospatial
Knowledge-based land Survey of urban HAbitations) programme from 2nd June 2025, across five
Centres of Excellence (CoEs) in the country. The first phase of capacity building programme to train
the 160 master trainers from NAKSHA participating states/UTs has been completed in the month of
May 2025.

This phase of training programme will be inaugurated virtually by Shri Manoj Joshi, Secretary,
Department of Land Resources on 2nd June 2025 at 10:00 A.M. Under this training programme, 304
ULB-level and district officers have been nominated from 157 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). These
officers will undergo hands-on training in leveraging modern geospatial technologies for effective
urban property surveys. The training will be conducted for a week starting from 2nd June 2025 at the
following Centres of Excellence institutions:

1. LalBahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, Uttarakhand


2. Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune,
Maharashtra
3. Northeast Region Centre of Excellence, Guwahati, Assam
4. Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (MGSIPA), Chandigarh, Punjab
5. Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Mysuru, Karnataka

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The training aims to equip ULB officers and field staff with the technical and practical skills required
to oversee high-accuracy land surveys under the NAKSHA programme. Modules cover the
programme framework, GNSS and ETS-based surveying, Web-GIS application, land parcel mapping,
and the legal-administrative aspects of land surveys.
About NAKSHA

With India’s urban population expected to exceed 600 million by 2031, the need for modern,
verifiable, and easily accessible land records has become more urgent than ever. The NAKSHA
programme addresses this challenge with a bold, technology-driven approach. NAKSHA programme
is being implemented by the department of Land Resources (DoLR), Government of India in
association with the Survey of India, NICSI, MPSeDC, and five Centres of Excellence, as a pilot
programme. NAKSHA has been launched across 157 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in 27 States and 3
Union Territories.

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PSF/KSR/AR

(Release ID: 2133099)


Read this release in: Odia , Marathi , Gujarati , Urdu , Hindi , Tamil

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