India is a emerging global power economically and in terms of  Military strength . The govt. thrust is on continuously improving the infrastructre facilities like roads, rail ways, dams , pipelines of water, gas , oil and sewage. Huge infrastructure spend has been earmarked for the same.

Schemes like Jawharlal Nehru urban renewal mission have been floated by central government so that sate govt. and muncipal bodies get subsidy upto 85 % for roads and sewage pipe lines.

This has generated huge demand for surveyors. Surveyors are first level technocrats who are involved in planning of such projects.

Plans to build Hundreds of kilometers of roads and pipelines coupled with need for digitizing the maps and need for information to be made available in GIS ( Geographical Information System) has lead to huge demand for surveyors.