ISRO partners with Panchayati Raj ministry, finishes nationwide land mapping

ISRO has completed high-resolution (1:10,000 scale) land use and land cover mapping for the entire country and made it available to government organisations.

Bengaluru: ISRO on Friday highlighted its collaboration with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in advancing decentralised planning through geospatial technologies, saying it has completed high-resolution land use mapping for the entire country.

On the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day, the space agency said in a post on ‘X’ that it has completed high-resolution (1:10,000 scale) land use and land cover mapping for the entire country and made it available to government organisations.

“This dataset supports gram panchayat development plans and is integrated as one of the information layers on the Grammanchitra web portal of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, enabling stronger, data-driven governance at the grassroots,” ISRO added.