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Punjab to use drones to keep a check on illegal colonies

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CHANDIGARH, Jan 2: Punjab has decided to use drones to ensure no unauthorised residential clusters come up in future even as a state cabinet subcommittee is yet to take a call on the fate of unauthorised residential colonies.

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Last year, Haryana was the first to decide to use drones to take high-resolution imagery in Gurgaon, one of the largest tech hubs in the country, for regularisation of land records and prevent encroachments on government land. Haryana had launched the pilot project in Gurgaon, Karnal and Faridabad and it was to be replicated in other districts.

Punjab too has decided to use technology to prevent encroachments on government land. Vini Mahajan, additional chief secretary (housing) said the housing and urban development department has approached the Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana to carry out aerial surveys of illegal colonies. “It will be a part of the multi-pronged strategy to tighten the noose around such unapproved residential areas,” she said.

The images taken by the drones will then be tallied with the maps which have been digitised from the archival physical records to arrive at a final and a foolproof version.

News Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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