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As part of efforts to improve overall management of defence land, for the first time a Land Management System (LMS) has been developed by Department of Defence in conjunction with DGDE and Armed forces

Highlights

• The Intra-net portal shall digitize all requests of defence land management received by the Department in future.
• It is also in process of progressively capturing archival data into the system.
• All data for cases since 2016 have already been captured and are available in the portal.
• The portal is expected to bring in greater speed, transparency and efficiency into the Land Management System (LMS) of the Department. 
• This will integrate several mapping tools into the existing “Raksha Bhoomi” software, which was launched with the data updated in 2011.
• The software, apart from capturing the textual details of all proposals relating to defence management, integrates these details as well as other relevant aspects, including satellite imagery of the area and other amenities.

The technical support for this GIS-based system has been provided by BISAG, India’s premier organization in GIS based informatics.

BISAG

Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics{BISAG} is an Autonomous Scientific Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 under the MeitY, Government of India to undertake technology development & management, research & development, facilitate National & International cooperation, capacity building and support technology transfer & entrepreneurship development in area of geo-spatial technology.

BISAG has three main domain areas: Satellite Communication, Geo-informatics and Geo-spatial technology.

Source: PIB