V. N. Shukla, Satyajit Rath, Sanjay Saxena
Center for Development of Advanced Computing
Ministry of Comm. & IT, Govt. of India
“Anusandhan Bhawan”, C-56/1, Sector –62, Noida – 201 301
Ph.: 91- 120 – 2402551-60, Fax: 91-120-2402569
Email: [email protected]
Abstract
Since time immemorial, it has been a constant endeavor of human being to pursue various aspects of life with ease. In the present era of high-end computing, this endeavor of simplifying things is well achieved by an effective tool like GIS, when applied to, as complicated a process as land acquisition. Unlike the conventional procedure of simultaneous handling of various maps such as village cloth maps, engineering drawings and Layout plans etc., which are of different scale, GIS helps to prepare the maps and peruse the maps of multiple types at the same instance. The concept of layer mechanism and subsequent superimposition one above the other is used so as to store both non-spatial and spatial data in different thematic layers. This enhances data accessibility, and also helps simultaneous operation of perusal and analytical assessment of the information to be used prior to any land acquisition process.
The proposed approach towards land acquisition through GIS is intended at minimising interference that would have been faced by the conventional methods. For the planners this entire process is made available at fingertips at the desktop PCs without unfolding the age old mutilated paper and cloth maps. The major hindrance in acquisition is calculation of proposed required area from a specific parcel / plot. Through this approach an effort is made to analyse the various causes of mismatch between the map area and the old-recorded area and also the present manual system of superimposition of maps. In this context this article describes a proposed automated process of land acquisition through Geographic Information System there by reducing the interference from various segments of the habitat.
