Agartala, the capital of Tripura, is undergoing a major shift toward technology-driven land management. The Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), in partnership with the Tripura Government and the Ministry of Rural Development, has launched the NAKSHA project — a drone-based city survey initiative covering all 51 wards of Agartala.

NAKSHA stands for the National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations. It is a centrally funded pilot under the Department of Land Resources' Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme, covering 157 Urban Local Bodies across 27 states, including Agartala. The scheme uses high-resolution drone imagery — sharper than satellite data — combined with ground verification, to build a GIS-integrated database of urban land parcels, issue property cards, and resolve long-standing ownership disputes.

This reflects a wider shift across Tripura: as infrastructure, real estate, and urban planning activity increases, fast, accurate, and legally compliant drone survey data is becoming essential rather than optional. Government departments, private developers, and infrastructure contractors operating in and around Agartala increasingly need survey partners who can mobilise quickly, work within DGCA's Digital Sky regulatory framework, and deliver data formatted for GIS and CAD workflows.

Traditional total-station and manual chain-survey methods remain accurate for individual boundary points, but they are slower and less suited to covering Tripura's hilly, forested, and flood-prone terrain at scale. Drone-based photogrammetry, and LiDAR where vegetation is dense, closes that gap — capturing an entire site or ward in hours instead of days, without putting survey crews on difficult or hazardous ground.

For teams already familiar with our work in Delhi NCR, the same methodology used in our LiDAR mapping projects in Delhi and our land survey engagements in Gurugram is now being extended to Agartala and the wider North-East region.

Our Agartala projects are flown using high-end survey-grade drones fitted with RTK/PPK positioning, paired with DGPS ground control equipment to correct and geo-reference every dataset. This combination is what allows us to consistently hit 1–3 cm GSD resolution with 50mm horizontal and 50–80mm vertical accuracy on processed 3D terrain models, matching the standards we maintain on infrastructure projects for clients like NHAI and GMDA.

For sites where dense vegetation limits optical photogrammetry — common in parts of Tripura's forested and hilly terrain — we deploy aerial LiDAR scanning, which uses laser pulses to capture bare-earth elevation data beneath tree canopy. Where projects require immersive visualisation for stakeholders, our 3D virtual reality team can convert survey outputs into walkable digital twins.

Surveying India's team and equipment mobilise from our Gurugram base to Agartala and across Tripura, including West Tripura, Sepahijala, and Khowai districts, for both one-time projects and ongoing survey programmes tied to infrastructure or municipal timelines.