Set definite timeframe to complete land records digitisation program: CS

Jammu, Dec 4: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo today held a meeting of Revenue Department to take assessment of the progress made in digitization of land records here in J&K.

Dulloo impressed upon the officers of the Department to take earnest steps to take this digitisation programme towards completion as most of the work has shown to be completed now.

He observed that the next goal of the Department should be to integrate these records with geo-referenced cadastral maps and dedicating the same to public for their ease and use.

The Chief Secretary further impressed upon the Department to constitute teams of revenue experts who would visit districts to gauge the accuracy of this digitized records. He made out that it is pivotal to check the quality and accuracy of these records and people themselves should take lead in scrutinizing their respective records for any discrepancies so that these are timely rectified.

During this meeting, Dulloo also took note of the online services provisioned by the Department to public. He enjoined upon the officers to act tough against those violating the Public Service Guarantee Act (PSGA) timelines set for different services. He asked for putting check on last-minute reverting or cancellation of applications maintaining that it defeats the purpose of this act.

In his remarks the Financial Commissioner (Revenue), Shaleen Kabra made out that the Department has made substantial progress in digitization process with most of it completed by the field officials of the Department except that in Jammu and Srinagar districts.

He revealed that the Department is currently engaged in the verification process to ensure quality and accuracy of these records. He made out that this exercise would be completed within a month’s time to enable the Department to move towards integrating it with vectorised cadastral maps.

The Secretary, Revenue, Kumar Rajeev Ranjan gave insights about the achievements of the Department made in this direction along with the steps to be taken under land records modernization programme. He gave out that the objective of this programme is to develop the modern, comprehensive and transparent land records management system.

He also apprised the meeting about the progress made so far and the future steps to be taken from here. It was added that after digitization the Department is on the task of digitization of cadastral maps followed by their geo-refrencing which has been completed upto the extent of 89% across villages.

The meeting was also informed that the integration of spatial (geo-referenced) map with digitized RoRs is the next step in the line of action to be culminated with making it live on LRIS portal for use and the easement of general public.