Land mafia scanner: UP villages to get GPS-enabled border pillars

Yogi govt collaborates with IIT Kanpur, Geological Survey to demarcate all 109,000 revenue villages in the state

In an effort to advance its on-going anti-land mafia drive, the Uttar Pradesh government has partnered with Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) for installing GPS enabled border pillars to demarcate all the revenue villages in the state.
There are about 109,000 revenue villages in UP and about 850,000 border pillars are installed on village boundaries.
 
The Yogi Adityanath government has drawn up a blueprint to install GPS devices on these border pillars for exact demarcation of the village boundaries, UP Board of Revenue chairman Pravir Kumar told Business Standard.
 
“We are working with IIT Kanpur, Remote Sensing