new delhi the delhi development authority dda will soon track encroachment of its land online with realtime mapping through satellite work has begun on a digital realtime mapping through satellites while we will be able to locate existing encroachments this will help us prevent new encroachments the new vicechairman of dda balwinder kumar said today the dda also said that out of about 79000 acres of land under its jurisdiction about 1500 acres have been encroached upon and the new technology will help it in protecting land with the technology the detailed mapping with location dda particulars legal status will be accessible to the control room kumar said we dont even know exactly how much of our land is encroached upon this will help us track new encroachments before they go out of hand he said among other announcements kumar said the computerisation of documents have been taken up on a war footing adding that the digitisation will help track existing and old files three thousand files would be scanned on a daily basis this will also help us consolidate our records and assist in applicants document reconciliation too he said the new vicechairman said he wanted to get closer to citizens and the measures were a step in that direction we will be holding a fiveday camp starting february 17 to expedite complete documentation and clear pendency in a speedy fashion like visa and passport applications we will update our records at the site itself kumar said among other announcements he said rehabilitation of people in slum clusters in kathputli colony in west delhi has been planned anand parbat will serve as transit camps for the residents of kathputli colony before being rehabilitated in the flats coming up there all 2800 families will be rehabilitated to highrise apartments there he said while eight towers will be built there out of which 2800 flats will be give to dda one 40storeyed tower will be kept by the builder itself the cutoff date will remain the same he said the kathputli colony project spread across 522 hectares sees construction of 2800 ews economically weaker section units for squatter families on the millenium depot issue kumar said the delhi high court has ordered dda to look for alternative land and explore options but so far we havent been able to do so the dda also presented its budget which has allocated rs 243 crore for the phasei and phaseii development and maintenance of yamuna biodiversity park among others a sum of rs 300 crore has also been kept for delhi metros phaseiii work