India, Dec. 18 -- The Yamuna expressway industrial development authority (Yeida) is conducting a land audit to protect its notified area from encroachment and also check the land fraud cases, officials said on Wednesday.

The Authority has hired a state-owned national informatics centre (NIC) that will prepare a database of land that is allotted, notified for planned development, unused land, and if any portion remains disputed among other categories of land. The NIC has started its survey to audit the area, and will submit the report in six months, they added.

This Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based survey will collect, store, analyse, and display location-based data of each khasra (land record), and will have details of the lat...