New Delhi, December 2: The Department of Land Resources (DoLR) under the Ministry of Rural Development will host a National Symposium on NAKSHA and LandStack on December 3 at Bharat Mandapam, marking a significant push toward overhauling India’s urban land governance systems through advanced geospatial technologies.
Organised as a focused segment within the GeoSmart India 2025 Conference & Expo, the symposium will bring together senior policymakers, Survey of India specialists, state revenue officials and industry leaders for a day-long series of six technical sessions aimed at reshaping how urban land is mapped, recorded and accessed by citizens.
At the centre of the discussions is NAKSHA – the National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations, which is currently being piloted across more than 157 cities. Participants will review the performance of the pilot, identify technical challenges in dense urban terrains, and explore pathways to scale up aerial surveys using modern imaging and feature-extraction technologies to ensure high-accuracy digital land maps.
A major agenda item will be LandStack, envisioned as India’s unified digital ecosystem for land governance. Experts will examine how cadastral maps, administrative records and geospatial data can be integrated into a federated architecture built on national standards, enabling frictionless data exchange across states.
The symposium will also deliberate on the proposed UrPro Card—a single, trusted digital property document intended to streamline ownership, registration, mutation, taxation and building permissions. Officials will analyse the legal, institutional and workflow adjustments required by states and Union Territories to operationalise the card and strengthen citizens’ digital property rights.
Participants will further witness a technology showcase, including demonstrations of a next-generation WebGIS platform, cloud-based geospatial services and applications of AI/ML modelling and 3D mapping. These tools are expected to enhance transparency, improve land-record accuracy, and support efficient citizen services.
The DoLR stated that the symposium underscores the government’s commitment to modernising land administration through a whole-of-government digital approach, replacing legacy systems with transparent, interoperable and citizen-centric solutions in line with the vision of Viksit Bharat.
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