The survey of residential and non-residential buildings with drones using Geographic Information System (GIS) will start from this week in the four urban local bodies (ULBs) in Uttarakhand under the Urban Development Directorate (UDD).

The step is likely to increase the revenue collection of property tax by two to four times and the details of all the properties will be available online from the year 2023

The collected data will also be used to generate a unique property identification number in order to provide necessary facilities to the locals of a certain area. An App has also been developed to update all the information collected through the surveys in all the selected ULBs in the first phase, stated the urban planner.