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Life and times of a Surveyor Source:Island National Surveyors’ Day fell on March 21 A surveyor is a professional person with the academic qualifications and technical expertise to practise the science of measurement, to assemble and assess land and geographic related information, to use such information for the purpose of planning and implementing the efficient administration of land, the sea and structures thereon, and to instigate the advancement and development of such practices. An ola leaf found in Madras, written thousands of years ago, describes a surveyor thus: “His profession will be giving estimates of lands and areas of lands, preparing plans, bills and land charges.” Once at a seminar, held in Colombo, a leading light of the Surveyors’ Institute said that surveying was the oldest profession. A famous surgeon contradicting this, said that surveying, though an old profession, certainly was not the oldest. ...