New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will preside over the Defence Estates Day celebrations at Raksha Sampada Bhawan in Delhi Cantonment on December 16, 2025, in accordance with an official launch from the Ministry of Defence.
Rajnath Singh will confer the Raksha Mantri Awards for Excellence in public service within the area of Defence Land Management and Municipal Administration of 61 Cantonment Boards unfold throughout the nation.
According to the Ministry, this yr’s celebrations maintain particular significance because the Department steps into its one centesimal yr, commemorating a legacy that traces its origins to 1765, when the primary Cantonment was established in Barrackpore, West Bengal. Over the next century and a half, cantonments comparable to Danapur (1766), Meerut (1803), Ambala (1843), Delhi (1915) and so on adopted, laying the inspiration of Defence and Land Administration in India. The Department was later formalised on December 16, 1926, because the Department of Land and Cantonments beneath the Ministry of Defence.
The Defence Estates Department immediately manages the most important landholding of the Government of India beneath the Ministry of Defence. While steeped in historical past, the Department has undertaken an distinctive modernisation journey, reworking itself right into a pioneer in digital and tech-enabled land administration, the discharge said.
The Department has efficiently applied the E-Chhawani challenge by offering 100% municipal companies on-line to twenty lakh Cantonment residents. The Department’s efforts in the direction of water conservation and rejuvenation of water our bodies has been acknowledged on the highest degree because it acquired the National Water Awards for Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari.
The Department has undertaken full digitisation of legacy land information, making certain their preservation for the longer term. Entire File Management system has been modernised with Nationwide adoption of a safe, technology-backed file administration system, enabling seamless retrieval and protected archival. A centralised software program platform ‘Raksha Bhoomi’, hosted on safe servers, now serves because the unified repository of all defence land information.
The Department has developed core competency in Land Survey with in depth adoption of Continuously Operating Reference Stations-enabled Differential Global Positioning System, Geographic Information System-based instruments, and high-resolution satellite tv for pc imagery to strengthen accuracy. A Centre of Excellence on Satellite and Unmanned Remote Vehicle Initiative, leveraging Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and rising applied sciences to construct next-generation options for defence land administration. (ANI)