0900 - 0930
Registration
National Symposium on
Landstack & NAKSHA –
National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations
3 December 2025 | Hall No - Audi 1
Organiser
Program Agenda
Wednesday, 3rd December
0930 - 1045
Inaugural Session
Welcome Address
Sanjay Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
Geospatial World
Symposium Overview
Kunal Satyarthi
Joint Secretary
Department of Land Records Government of India
Leadership Address
Manoj Joshi, IAS
Secretary
Department of Land Resources, Government of India
Vote of Thanks
Shyam Kumar
Director
Department of Land Resources, Government of India
1045 - 1130
Session 1: NAKSHA Review
Session Highlight
Session brief & deliberation points: A comprehensive review of the pilot programme, its objectives, coverage across 150+ cities, and early outcomes in modernizing urban land records.
- Review the progress of NAKSHA in all States/UTs
- Challenges so far faced in implementation
- Importance of integration of geospatial technologies for accurate land mapping and data visualization
- Successful models of public-private partnerships and the role of technology companies in developing and implementing innovative solutions
Kunal Satyarthi
Joint Secretary
Department of Land Records Government of India
1130 - 1150
Tea & Coffee Break
1150 - 1245
Session 2: Aerial Flying & Feature Extraction-Learnings from NAKSHA
Session Highlight
Session deliberation points:
- How does aerial photography modernize urban cadastres by improving positional accuracy and ensuring transparent property depiction?
- What methods does Survey of India use to ensure high ORI and feature-extraction accuracy, and what challenges arise when aligning them with ground truth and legacy cadastral maps?
- How is aerial data accuracy maintained in dense urban areas despite shadows, reflections, and occlusions?
- How do LiDAR and oblique imagery complement each other in creating 3D city models, and what unique value does each provide?
- How mature are AI/ML techniques for extracting parcels, building footprints, and urban features where no common identifiers exist?
- Is AI automation in national survey platforms a strategic advantage or a complexity risk, given scale and accuracy needs?
- How can cloud limitations and fragmented microservices be addressed to maintain performance and security at statewide scale?
- What architectural improvements are needed to make WebGIS platforms fully seamless for feature extraction and Ur-Pro Card generation?
- How do privacy rules, no-fly zones, and operational restrictions shape aerial survey planning and execution in urban areas?
- What common errors occur in large-scale urban aerial surveys, and which best practices most effectively reduce them?
- What validation frameworks are required to reconcile high-resolution aerial outputs with ground survey realities in complex urban settings?
- When datasets lack unique identifiers, which AI or computational approaches best support reliable land data integration?
Chair
S.K. Sinha
Additional Surveyor General
Survey of India
Moderator
Dr Shivangi S Somvanshi
Centre Head
Centre for Applied Geomatics (CAG), CEPT University
DoLR Moderator
Dr Mandvi Misra
GIS Technical Expert
Misal Roshan Shrivastava
Superintending Surveyor
Survey of India
B. Venkateswar Reddy
Director
Aarvee Associates
Saurabh Rai
Chief Strategy & Growth Officer
NeoGeo Technologies
Sundar Raj
Delivery Head
LTI Mindtree
Surendra Nath Das
Chief Executive Officer
Mapex
Atanu Sinha
Chief Executive Officer
Garuda UAV
1245 - 1330
Session 3: NAKSHA Ground Truthing, Interoperability and Data Maintenance in Urban Areas
Session Highlight
Session deliberation points:
- Which advanced survey methods and geospatial technologies are improving the precision and reliability of ground-based land surveys?
- How can land parcel boundary delineation and land attribute capture be enhanced to boost transparency, accuracy and accountability in land governance?
- What key challenges hinder interoperability when merging land datasets from municipalities, revenue agencies and private entities and how can these be resolved?
- Which data standards, institutional protocols and technical frameworks are required to build a unified, interoperable architecture for seamless land record exchange and updates across departments?
- Which emerging technologies such as AI analytics, blockchain, 3D mapping and cloud geospatial platforms will most improve efficiency, accuracy and citizen centric land administration?
Chair
P. Amudha
Additional Chief Secretary
Revenue Department, Government of Tamil Nadu
Moderator
Vinod Mishra
Vice President
MapmyIndia
DoLR Moderator
Ashwani Alfred
Manager Geospatial Technology
Krishna Mohan Uppu
Secretary (Revenue)
Government of Puducherry
J Manjunath
Commissioner
Survey Settlement and Land Records (SSLR), Government of Karnataka
R.J. Vidyullatha
Director
Town Country Planning, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Yash Pal
Director
Land Records, Government of Haryana
Ranjana Rajguru
Commissioner cum Secretary
Revenue Department, Government of Uttarakhand
1330 - 1430
Lunch Break
1430 - 1515
Session 4: Land Stack: Building the Future of India's Digital Land Ecosystem
Session Highlight
- What key base layers should form the core of a national Landstack-cadastral boundaries, ownership records, utilities, imagery, or others?
- What are the major challenges in integrating cadastral maps, geospatial data and administrative records into a unified Landstack, and how can they be resolved?
- What is the current readiness of utility agencies to provide accurate, real-time data and what steps are needed to onboard them into the Landstack?
- Is a single national platform preferable, or should India adopt a federated Landstack where States retain autonomy under common standards?
- What specific benefit such as reduced disputes, faster services, better planning, or improved credit and taxation can the Landstack deliver, and in what timeframe?
Chair
S. Chockalingam
Chief Electoral Officer
Government of Maharashtra
Moderator
Sanjay Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
Geospatial World
DoLR Moderator
Dhawal Trivedi
Technical Documentation Expert
J Manjunath
Commissioner
Survey Settlement and Land Records (SSLR), Government of Karnataka
Dr Sultan Singh
Director & Chief Scientist
Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC)
Deepak Jacob
Director
Survey & Settlement, Government of Tamil Nadu
Prof (Dr) Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse
Vice President and Director-Advisory & Innovation
Woolpert
Samarth Hans
Director - Projects
Geospatial World
J.K Jain
Expert Land Administration
Chandigarh
1515 - 1545
Tea & Coffee Break
1545 - 1645
Session 5: End-to-End Demonstration of WebGIS Platform & Cloud Services
Session Highlight
Session deliberation points:
- How do limited cloud facilities cause performance bottlenecks?
- What is the cloud strategy for scaling, ensuring data security, DR readiness, and maintaining high performance for statewide usage?
- How can a lack of technology in a cloud environment affects the management of microservices?
- How can the portal be made fully end-to-end and seamless for generating Ur-Pro Cards?
- How can automated validation impact operations in no-network and low-network areas?
- Is integrating AI automation into the portal a curse or a blessing?
- How does the WebGIS/mobile app manage low network availability, inaccurate GPS points, and dense property clusters during field operations?
Chair
Deepak Jacob
Director
Survey & Settlement, Government of Tamil Nadu
Moderator
Snehashish Misra
Associate Professor
CRS-LBSNAA
DoLR Moderator
Deepti Parihar
Data Management & Cloud Solutions Expert
Dr Sandeep Goyal
Executive Director
MPSEDC, Government of Madhya Pradesh
Krishna Rao TVB
Vice President - Presales
Esri India
Krishna Rao TVB, Esri India He has experience in Customer Success Engagement, Team Management, Technology Architect, Enterprise GIS & Solutioning Design, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, and GPS. His specialties include Customer Engagement, Solution Architect, Presales, and Tech Support.
Koduri Venkatesh
Project Manager
Dream Step Software Innovation Pvt. Ltd.
Gokhul Praveen
GIS Team Lead
Government of Karnataka
Pradeep Kumar
Manager
SPMU, Government of Maharashtra
N Prakash Ranjan Mahanta
Cloud - CSD HoD
National Government Cloud
1645 - 1730
Session 6: NAKSHA: Legal Framework
Session Highlight
Session deliberation points:
- How to align Rules/ SOPs/ Manuals/ Instructions of the States and UTs to successfully implement NAKSHA?
- How to expeditiously align Rules/ SOPs/ Manuals/ Instructions of the States and UTs for Surveys and re-Surveys of lands in Urban areas with use advanced surveying equipment?
- What alignments are required to formally integrate private surveyors in the survey process to tide over the challenge of shortage of manpower for survey work?
- How can the States and UTs ensure that the existing ownership formats align with the UrPro cards proposed by DoLR (with modifications, if any)?
- Future of UrPro Card as a single trusted digital property document that can empower citizens through secure mortgages, effortless transfers, and seamless integration across registration, mutation, property tax, and building permission systems.
Chair
NK Sudhansu
Director General
YASHADA, Government of Maharashtra
Moderator
Deepika Jha
Consultant
IIHS, Bengaluru
DoLR Moderator
Niyati Patwardhan
Legal Advisor
J Manjunath
Commissioner
Survey Settlement and Land Records (SSLR), Government of Karnataka
Kailash Karthik.N, IAS
Inspector General of Registration and, Director- Land Records
Government of Assam
Arpit Mehta
Assistant Director
Revenue Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh
Palavi Mishra
Assistance Settlement Officer
Government of Bihar
Rakhee Singh
Additional Director Land Records
Himachal Pradesh
Chandrakant. B. Shetkar
Director
Directorate of Settlement and Land Records, Goa
1730 - 1830
Session 7: Symposium Wrap-up: From Pilot to National Rollout
Symposium Outcomes
Kunal Satyarthi
Joint Secretary
Department of Land Records Government of India
Address
Manoj Joshi, IAS
Secretary
Department of Land Resources, Government of India
Vote of Thanks
Shyam Kumar
Director
Department of Land Resources, Government of India
1830 - 1930
Exhibition and Technology Interaction with Evening Reception in Exhibition Hall