India, March 20 -- Computerised or digital urban land records will be implemented across India after evaluating the outcomes of an ongoing pilot programme, currently being conducted in 152 urban local bodies across 29 states and union territories (UTs), union minister of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) Manohar Lal Khattar said on Thursday.

Khattar, who was replying to a question from Shiv Sena lawmaker Anil Yeshwant Desai in the Lok Sabha, said, "The pilot with a financial outlay of Rs.193.81 crore is being carried out as part of National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations (NAKSHA) programme with Survey of India as technical partner for aerial survey and feature extraction work followed by ground truthing by St...