Jalandhar / Chandigarh, March 29, 2013: To combat the unregulated land use by the land owners as well as the real estate developers and builders, Haryana Government has launched a project in order to prepare a land use plan to be implemented by the Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC), a nodal agency of the Development of science and Technology, however it will be in a phased manner to step in and tightening noose against the haphazard developers, in three districts, Fatehabad, Sirsa and Hisar, in the first phase.
Rs 49.50 lakh land use plans will be made on 1:50,000 scale for the entire state. In the process the latest Indian Remote Sensing Sattelite data will be used. In the first phase the Land Use Plan of the three districts will be presented before the Natural Resource Group in which senior-level scientists from various Universities and institutions.
This was stated by Dheera Khandelwal, Principal Secretary, Science and Technology , Haryana. She said," The decreasing availability of land with the increasing population has brought land management in focus in recent span of period. She said the preparation of the plan will involve identification of double-cropped area, land for horticulture, vegetable growing, forestry, agro-forestry and silvopasture, besides areas suitable for urban, industrial, institutional and infrastructural development.
Dheera said reformatting and updation of various thematic maps like soil maps, ground-water quality and depth maps, present land use or land cover maps, wasteland maps, cropping pattern and crop rotation maps was being done for different districts of the state.