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New land records scheme approved

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the merger of two Centrally-sponsored schemes, Strengthening of Revenue Administration and Updating of Land Records (SRA and ULR) and Computerisation of Land records (CLR), and its replacement with the modified National Land Records Modernisation Programme (NLRMP).

The Centre will fully fund computerisation of land records including data entry/re-entry, data conversion, digitisation of maps and integration of textual and spatial data, tehsil/sub-division/ district data centres, state/union territory-level data centres, inter-connectivity among the revenue offices, training and capacity building, including strengthening of the revenue and survey training institutions, village index maps and core GIS, legal changes and programme management.

The Centre and the States will equally share the cost of survey/re-survey and updating of survey and settlement records, including ground control network and ground truthing, and modern record rooms, land records management centres at the tehsil, taluka, circle and block levels.

The Centre will give 25 per cent funds and the rest will be contributed by the States for computerisation of registration, scanning, and preservation of legacy mutation records, and providing connectivity to the sub-registrar offices with revenue offices.

To begin with, the computerisation programme will be taken up in one or two districts in each state and union territory and then scaled up to 3 to 4 districts.

However, states and union territories which wish to complete the work earlier can do so, and go in for a public-private partnership model in the non-sensitive districts.

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