Srinagar, June, 28: In a significant stride towards transparent land records management system, Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo today chaired a meeting to review the ongoing digitization and modernization of land records across Jammu & Kashmir.
The Chief Secretary while emphasized the paramount importance of quality assurance in the digitization process. He stressed the need for a robust system of checkers and approvers for data entries made by the field staff. This will ensure that every entry is meticulously cross-checked with corresponding physical records by the experienced revenue officers. He observed that the correctness of records ensures fewer grievances and fewer court cases, thereby saving the time and energy of both people and public servants.
Dulloo highlighted the far-reaching benefits of this exercise, noting that its completion would simplify crucial processes like registrations, mutations and real-time, transparent seasonal crop monitoring.
He also underscored the critical need for capacity building for the additional staff deputed for this technical work. He directed for repeated hands-on training sessions to ensure a full understanding of the assignment’s nuances for these novices.
To facilitate seamless data entry, the Chief Secretary instructed the Deputy Commissioners to establish a dedicated, fully equipped data entry centers in their districts, complete with sufficient computers, reliable internet connectivity and power backup.
Secretary Revenue, Kumar Rajeev Ranjan, presented a detailed overview of various components driving this modernization, including the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), Survey Of Villages And Mapping With Improvised Technology In Village Areas (SVAMITVA), National geospatial Knowledge-based land Survey of urban Habitations (NAKSHA) and generation of Unique Land Parcel Identification Numbers (ULPIN).
He gave out that for digitization of RoRs the necessary software customizations for local adoption have been completed and the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) committee is currently evaluating the software. The portal is slated to enter the production stage after July 1st, 2025, and will be live for data entry by July 10th, 2025, he informed.
The Secretary further added that in order to support this mammoth exercise across the 6,850 revenue villages, the department has already trained 244 Master Trainers, 1,253 Patwaris and 1,053 MTS/other staff. Furthermore, 7,000 User IDs for Patwaris/MTS for data entry had been created and a monitoring dashboard is under development, expected to be ready by July 10th, 2025.
