Road transport and highways ministry has decided to use satellite images for planning and monitoring of national highways, a move that would help in use of minimal farmland in road construction. This could in turn reduce the possibility of protests by farmers against land acquisition. To start with, it has identified 3,000 sq km area in Assam, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh to trace usable land through satellite images procured from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) in Hyderabad. Read More
