Department
of Survey
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| Survey Department
was established in B.S. 2014 as a central mapping agency.
The general objectives of the Department are to prepare
maps indigenously and to fulfill the various mapping
needs of Government of Nepal. |
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| In its early
days, the activities of Survey Department were focused
mainly on cadastral mapping to assist in the collection
of land revenue. In B.S. 2019, legislation was passed
and revised in B.S. 2021 to allow the Department to
prepare maps and land registers, which helped not only
to assess the revenue, but also to give the individual
right to his land. |
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In its early
days, the activities of Survey Department were focused
mainly on cadastral mapping to assist in the collection
of land revenue. In B.S. 2019, legislation was passed
and revised in B.S. 2021 to allow the Department to
prepare maps and land registers, which helped not only
to assess the revenue, but also to give the individual
right to his land.
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Activities/Objectives
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Following are the objectives of Survey Department :
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 To
establish a national network of control points throughout
the country.
To
study crustal movement to help to predict natural disaster.
To
establish the geoidal surface of Nepal and help to find
the parameters in establishing
the location of Nepal in the Earth's surface.
To
prepare cadastral plans of all the districts of the
Kingdom.
To
prepare land database and provide land registers when
land transaction take
place.
To
prepare topographical base maps.
To
take aerial photography for various developmental planning
and mapping works.
To
prepare administrative and land resource maps.
To
establish National Topographical Database, as well as
multi-resolution topographical
database.
To
carry out international boundary survey works and to
fulfill other international
commitments of Nepal regarding surveying and mapping.
To
carry out land use zoning for planning.
To
co-ordinate of surveying, mapping remote sensing and
GIS activities in Nepal
with other agencies.
To
update the various maps and data prepared by the department.
To
provide maps, aerial photographs, geodetic data, and
other related data required
for planning developmental, educational, administrative
and research works by
other agencies in Nepal.
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Organizational
structure |
The Department consists of three branches to undertake
jobs of specific specializations, nine survey parties
(Survey Goswaras) and survey offices in each of the
75 districts of the country. |
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 Topographical
Survey Branch |
| Cadastral
Survey Branch |
| Geodetic
Survey Branch |
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Mapping
Committee |
The mapping committee consists of a chairperson (the
Secretary of Ministry of Land Reform and Management),
a member secretary (the Director General of the Survey
Department) and 6 other members (the representatives
of the Ministry of Home, Ministry of Defense, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Law, justice and Parliamentary
Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Department of Geography
of Tribhuvan University).
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SAARC
Networking Arrangement on Cartography (SNAC)
International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
(ISCGM)
Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia
and the Pacific (PCGIAP)
Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS)
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF)
Groups on Earth Observations (GEO)
Geographic Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
(GSDIA)
For More Information Visit
http://www.dos.gov.np |
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