Overview
- Officials reported that SVAMITVA has mapped more than 350,000 villages and enabled nearly 30 million property cards, reducing disputes and improving access to credit.
- Survey of India and land ministries outlined a unified framework linking departmental datasets to verified parcel boundaries through a new Unified Geospatial Interface.
- ISRO representatives said reliance on foreign satellite data has fallen sharply and that India is targeting exports of high-value satellite data products.
- Amitabh Kant challenged industry to deliver a fully real-time digitally managed city, while GMR and Vexcel announced a national spatial data bank and Esri India expanded AI-driven analytics platforms.
- Industry leaders warned that dependence on imported space-grade components threatens supply chains and called for greater localisation to scale domestic manufacturing.