pune ready reckoner rates of villages close to highways in the state and those that have seen development in their periphery are set to go upin a first the inspectorate general of registration and stamps igr has sought assistance from maharashtra remote sensing application centre mrsac for mapping these villages and locations for accurate fixing of the ready reckoner rates which will be out in april though such villages and the gaothan areas were close to highways and hence had higher market value their ready reckoner rates were quite lowthe value of land parcels and plots close to the highways is huge due to their potential for commercial development including construction of hotels petrol pumps and even residential buildings the department has also written to district collectors asking them for data of na permissions and sale details in these areasthe survey by mrsac has been able to map 15996 villages in the state near the highways and nearly 1350 developed villages gaothan areas with a buffer zone of 500mwe got the cadastral maps they define ownership from the land survey department after scanning we carried out the georeferencing followed by gis analysis we were able to give the exact location of these villages near the highways out of the total 44000 villages in the state that were mapped sanjay patil head pune mrsac saidthe task which ran for months was handed over to the igr department recently the centre had data of the highways constructed by pwd and roads under pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana and other highways through use of gis mapping and use of technology of mrsac the department was able to point out specific villages close to the highway and the gaothan areas wherein there was development beyond 200m and 500mstate inspector general of registration and stamps igr ramaswamy n told toi that the entire exercise was undertaken to ensure that the market prices of land are scientifically reflected in the calculation of rr the survey has zeroed in on land located close to highways and factoring in details of land for which nonagricultural na permissions have been given this data will help the department reflect the exact price of the area for the new rr which will be released in april he addedat present the rr rates for value zones are compiled based on the average of market rates local inquiries documents registered with the department information from media reports real estate exhibitions and market intelligence since it is a subjective system throwing up ballpark rough numerical estimate figures the mapping would help give exact figures igr officials saidthe centre provided the survey numbers and details of the plots close to the state and national highways which otherwise would not be known by the igr departmentthe change in valuation is because value of land parcels and plots close to the highways is huge due to their potential for commercial development including construction of hotels petrol pumps and even residential buildings the department has also written to