Summary:
The first such spatial survey of over 39,000 villages in Maharashtra using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be launched in a month. The residents of these 39,733 villages lack formal ownership records and documents except tax receipts issued by the gram panchayats. In villages where no surveys have been conducted, gram panchayats maintain registers of property but no spatial information exists. He added that in Sonori, the department had spent Rs 2.88 lakh for the survey, but recovered over Rs 2.58 lakh. He added that the SOI planned to deploy 40 drones across Maharashtra for the project, with plans to cover up to three villages a day using a drone..