DDA, MCD, and Survey of India sign MoU for drone surveys to tackle Delhi's land encroachments

In a major step to address the problem of uncertainty in the status of lands belonging to various government agencies and to protect such land from encroachers and ■ prohibit unauthorised constructions in the future, the Delhi Development Authority, on Thursday signed a triI partite memorandum of understanding with Municipal - Corporation of Delhi (MCD), 1 1 and Survey of India (SOI) to carry out drone survey to 1 determine current status of land in the National Capital, an official release said.

Lt. Governor and Chairman of DDA, VK Saxena, who had been faced with a lack of concrete knowledge with regards to the status of various government lands in several review meetings chaired by him had been consistently flagging the lack of real ground status and personally monitored the entire development, 1 bringing the 3 agencies together.

In August 2024, VK Saxena chaired two meetings on the issue. This absolute lack of clarity and actual ground status had been flagged by different Courts that had also instructed the landowning agencies to adopt advanced technological solutions to map the actual status of land in the National Capital and encroachment on government lands.