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Pradeep Kumar

10/07/21 09:20 AM IST

GIS Enabled Land Bank

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The India Industrial Land Bank (IILB) is a GIS-based portal - a one-stop repository of all industrial infrastructure-related information – connectivity, infra, natural resources & terrain, plot-level information on vacant plots, line of activity, and contact details.

Details
  • Currently, the IILB has approximately 4000 industrial parks mapped across an area of 5.5 lakh hectare of land, serving as a decision support system for investors scouting for land remotely.
  • The system has been integrated with industry-based GIS systems of 17 states to have details on the portal updated on a real-time basis and will achieve pan-India integration by December 2021.
  • A mobile application (wherein login is not required) was launched on Android and iOS stores.
  • Information on Land bank is also accessible via Homepage of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
Stats
  • The website has seen a 30% increase in page views each month since April 2021 and received 55000 page views in June compared to 44136 page views in May 2021 and 30153 page views in April 2021.
  • In previous quarter (Apr – Jun 2021), total users were 13,610 out of which 12,996 were unique users with total page views of approximately 1.3 lakh.
Source: PIB

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