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Now drones are also used for other things. They help map ponds, track forests, and even help with farming. State programs are increasingly relying on drones.

But once errors got fixed, many people saw the value in the system. By mid 2025, drones mapped over 3 lakh villages. More than 1 crore property cards have been given out. Goal is to map all 6.6 lakh villages in total.

Of course there have been hiccups. In some villages, people said they weren’t told about the drone surveys. Some found their houses marked wrong or under someone else's name.

This is not just about maps or documents. With proper records in hand, villagers can now get loans, solve disputes, and use homes as assets. Panchayats can also collect taxes better and plan for development work.

Drones fly over villages and take detailed pictures from sky. These pictures are used to draw maps showing where each house sits. Based on these, villagers receive property cards that show what belongs to them.

To fix this, government launched a project in 2020 called SVAMITVA. The plan was to map village homes and lanes using drones and create official land records.

For years, land records in rural India were outdated or missing. Most of them were handwritten, rarely verified and often incomplete. This led to many disputes over who owned what, especially in crowded areas.

In villages across India, drones are flying over head. But they are not here to deliver parcels or shoot fancy videos. They help villagers claim something much more valuable. Their land. A thread 👇

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Sweden still mails North Korea the invoice, twice a year, without fail. Do you think they will ever be able to recover the money? Comment below!

For nearly 50 years, EKN has been trying to recover the debt, which has now grown to over $320 million

The loss was borne by Sweden’s export credit agency, EKN, which had insured the deal for Volvo

North Korea imported 1,000 Volvo 144s from Sweden. North Korea kept the cars, but never made any payment.

But back in the 1970s, Sweden saw potential in North Korea’s economy and tried to capture the market

Today, UN sanctions prevent cars and other luxury goods from being exported to North Korea

With the country’s strong focus on military vehicles, Pyeonghwa remains its only passenger carmaker

In the late 1990s, North Korea launched Pyeonghwa Motors, an automaker producing under 2000 cars a year.