The Cadastral map being worked out by the government to bring more clarity into landowners in the district, following a demand by a section to scrap the Kasturirangan report on the Western Ghat, is likely to hit land encroachers in the district.
It is the brouhaha over the Kasturirangan report that brought to the fore the absence of a cadastral map in the state.
This has come as a boon to the government for protecting its land that remains unguarded.
Any kind of encroachment could be rectified immediately if the authorities are alert.
However, District Collector Ajit Patil told Express that the main aim of the government, by making the map, was to delineate human inhabited land from the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA).
The map will help the government to some extent to have a clear idea about landowners in the district.
“With only four days left to submit the report, the district administration has started collecting data from various panchayat-level committees. All the details are being forwarded to the government without any delay,” the Collector said.
The government is planning to publish the map in the first week of May. The public will be given sufficient time to point out errors in the map, if any.
Though the LDF called a hartal on Thursday, demanding additional time for collecting data, the government did not make any change to the deadline set for April 29.
A cadastral map contains details of the ownership, the tenure, the precise location, the area and the value of a particular land. Most of the developed countries bank on such maps.