Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that Geographic Information System Laboratories (GIS Labs) are being established in all districts of the state, so that data related to various departments can be collected through satellite.

The monitoring of the projects run by various departments can be done through satellite and the data related to all the departments will be available in these labs, the Chief Minister said after inaugurating the GIS Lab set up by Haryana Space Application Centre (HARSAC) in 11 districts of the state through a virtual meeting.

The Chief Minister also interacted with the Cabinet Ministers, public representatives and officials of the state present in these 11 districts.

He said that data would be collected and preserved using satellite images in these labs which are being built by HARSAC. After this, complete details of the data received such as name of the property owner, contact number, area of the property, status of the property related to residential or commercial area will be recorded. Also, the location of the property and the public facilities available in the area will also be easily accessible, he said.

Not only this, authorized and unauthorized colonies can be easily identified through satellite as well. Even while buying a property, people will know whether that property is in the authorized area or not, the Chief Minister said.

He also said that data related to all departments including Revenue, Irrigation, , Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Development and Panchayat, Police and Education Department will be collected in the lab.

The data of all the departments will be available online in the GIS Lab and the common man will be able to access the information easily, he added.